... antagonistic stance towards her recent wartime ally was based not so much on ideological differences, but rather on the desire to keep Europe and the USSR at loggerheads. The ideological propaganda was simply to gain the support of the masses. Lord Ismay, NATO’s first Secretary General, put it bluntly but pertinently when he said that the purpose of the Alliance was to keep the Americans in Europe, the Russians out, and the Germans down.
Understanding her reduced economic and military strength after ...
... British do not recognise Crimea as Russian. They regard the territorial waters in which the incident took place as Ukrainian. Russia regards them as its own, with all the consequences which ensue in the event of a border violation. The manoeuvres of NATO ships near the border and its violation are attempts to pursue political goals. The show of force was in fact a show of political support for Ukraine. Accordingly, Russia will inevitably take actions to expel violators, including with the use of ...
... infrastructure built in a very short order.
The Concept
The UK’s nuclear doctrine guarantees unacceptable damage to any aggressor and there is no doubt that the UK has the requisite capabilities. Nuclear weapons can be used independently or as part of NATO’s nuclear forces. Since 1994, it has been assumed that
Tridents
are de-targeted. Yet, retention of a certain ambiguity regarding, for instance, the first nuclear strike
is considered
rather useful in order to bolster deterrence.
The order to ...
... words show that the Cold War began long before the so-called Truman Doctrine. In fact, one can pre-date the beginning of a Cold War mentality to 1791, when the English Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger, lambasted Russia for wishing to dismember Anatolia. This was only some twenty-two years after Catherine the Great’s attempt to free Greece via the Orlov brothers. At any rate, when Greece’s first leader, the pro-Russian Kapodistrias (a former Russian foreign minister), was assassinated in ...
..., NATO is not an institution that can make fast decisions even in a challenging environment. The odds are that the immediate NATO reaction will be mostly rhetorical.
Joint statement
British action
: Britain could call on the support of its closest allies ... ... – they can assist the current state policy of trying to bring Russian money and Russian businesses back to Russia. If the United Kingdom is no longer perceived as a safe haven for Russian fat cats, the cosmopolitan faction of the Russian economic elite ...
... assess Russia critically, blaming the country’s “rapid militarisation” for undermining “the post-Cold War assumption of a stable Europe.”
At the same time, the report makes a strong case for engaging Russia in security debates during the coming NATO Warsaw Summit, to be held on July 8, and beyond, in order to prevent unintentional escalation in Europe, despite a clearly articulated premise that Moscow poses a considerable challenge to UK security.
Russia: Implications for UK defence and
security
...
...
ASN4G cruise missile
that is likely to be hypersonic and should materialize in the 2030s.
Although in 2009 France returned to NATO military structures, its strategic nuclear policy remains pointedly sovereign. Judging by
the White Paper on Defense and ... ... French bases were also
seen
as locations for the temporary basing of British SSBNs Vanguard if Scotland was to cede from the United Kingdom. However, both sides stress their intention to separately develop warheads and launchers.
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