Dear Bob
NATO has been a most successful military defence alliance but in seeking to move away from old fashioned territorial defence to defence at arms length its very …
The NATO Comfy Seats
In the news today is the UK’s £105m contribution to the £841 million new NATO building in
A French Affair
For several years there has been a slow and steady drift into greater collaboration with European allies in matters of defence. Collaboration then becomes …
Sharing with the French
In principle, I think sharing carefully selected defence capabilities with the French makes sense. The French forces are extremely professional and despite the …
NATO 2020 – Assured Security; Dynamic Engagement
NATO have just published a new Strategic Concept, the first for a over decade. With a commitment to the same core values of collective defence but …
Weight Pulling – A Response
Another contributor to our little blog, this time ripping one of my previous posts to pieces, the bloody cheek! This is a riposte to my post about …
Afghanistan, Who is Pulling Their Weight
There is a widely help opinion that some NATO nations are not pulling their weight in Afghanistan. NATO is a political and military alliance, therefore it …