NATO Hews To Strategic Ambiguity On Cyber Deterrence

NATO Hews To Strategic Ambiguity On Cyber Deterrence
NATO Hews To Strategic Ambiguity On Cyber Deterrence

WASHINGTON: NATO is now taking cyber threats as seriously as the Russian tanks and nuclear weapons it was created to deter. But the alliance has a long way to go just to shore up its own network defenses, and it explicitly eschews any role on the offense. NATO has not even written a formal policy…

How To Defeat ISIL: It’s All About The Strategy

How To Defeat ISIL: It’s All About The Strategy
How To Defeat ISIL: It’s All About The Strategy

As the NATO alliance’s panjandrums meet in Wales and debate the best ways to destroy ISIL and make Vladimir Putin’s Russia stop doing whatever it wants in Ukraine, we offer this schemata for defeating ISIL. It’s penned by Dave Deptula, the man who ran the air war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan during Operation…

Will NATO Protect All Members Equally?

“One for all, all for one”: That’s a central principle of the NATO alliance — but in recent months, multiple members have wondered whether it truly applies to them. With Russia escalating the Ukrainian conflict every day and the alliance’s annual summit starting Thursday, the question of equality among the 28 member states is painfully…

NATO’s September Summit Must Confront Cyber Threats

NATO’s September Summit Must Confront Cyber Threats
NATO’s September Summit Must Confront Cyber Threats

Jarno Limnéll is the Director of Cyber Security at McAfee (now part of Intel), a PhD in military science, and a former officer in the famously tough Finnish armed forces, where he spent five years as a strategic analyst. He spoke to us in June about the Russian threat in cyberspace, which many analysts consider far…

MH17 Tragedy Strengthens European Spines To Sanction Russia: UK Ambassador

MH17 Tragedy Strengthens European Spines To Sanction Russia: UK Ambassador
MH17 Tragedy Strengthens European Spines To Sanction Russia: UK Ambassador

THE WATERGATE: United we stand, Great Britain’s ambassador to the US insisted today. Despite all the strains on the Atlantic alliance — post-Snowden backlash against American spying, rising anti-EU sentiment in Britain, German dependence on Russian energy — the US, the UK, and their continental European allies stand together against what he called Russian “hybrid…