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Has the Transatlantic Alliance Been Irreparably Damaged?
Commentary
We at Foreign Affairs have recently published a number of pieces dealing with the transatlantic relationship. To complement these articles, we decided to ask a broad pool of e...
By Jim Townsend, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Richard Fontaine & Julianne Smith
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Fort Trump Is a Farce
Commentary
Last month, Polish President Andrzej Duda asked U.S. President Donald Trump to build a military base in Poland and even offered to pay $2 billion for it. Savvy to the workings...
By Jim Townsend
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NATO in the Age of Trump
Commentary
Few NATO summits have captured the attention of this one—but for all the wrong reasons. On July 11, 29 heads of state and government will arrive at the new NATO headquarters b...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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As AI Begins to Reshape Defense, Here’s How Europe Can Keep Up
Commentary
Change comes hard in much of Europe, particularly in the defense community. But no less than in the United States, European nations are wrestling with the implications of mach...
By Jim Townsend & Wendy R. Anderson
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Message to Western leaders: stop obsessing about Trump
It may not feel like it, but the transatlantic security relationship finished the first year of Trump’s presidency a little better than where it started. After the drubbing NA...
By Jim Townsend
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Is the U.S. Ready for Russia’s Largest Military Exercises Since the Cold War?
Before his visit to Estonia, Vice President Mike Pence probably didn’t know the Russian word for “west” — zapad. But he knows it now, because it is the codename for one of the...
By Jim Townsend
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Trump Should Urge Europe to Resist Putin’s Pipeline Politics
President Donald Trump may not have an agenda to guide his huddle with Russian President Putin on the margins of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, but the G20 does. Unfortun...
By Jim Townsend
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NATO Prepares to Be Disappointed by the Cheshire Cat President
The hysteria that now surrounds the Donald Trump presidency has blown the NATO mini-summit out of the water. Allies who once were looking forward to Thursday’s summit for reas...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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NATO Allies Should Not Be Judged on Defense Spending Alone
Last week, President Donald Trump embarked on his first big wave of foreign travel since his January inauguration. For Europe-watchers, the most anticipated event during this ...
By Jim Townsend & Rachel Rizzo
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It's not just Europe: The DoD has a lot riding on the French elections, too
It is not just Europe and the European Union that have something at stake in the outcome of the French elections. One of French President François Hollande’s legacies is the c...
By Jacqueline Ramos & Jim Townsend
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For Tillerson, Showing Up at NATO Isn’t Enough
Bowing to outside pressure, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is set to attend his first meeting with NATO’s foreign ministers on Friday. But that was not his initial plan. Sch...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
