{"id":283,"date":"2016-04-06T18:11:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T22:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/?p=283"},"modified":"2016-04-06T18:11:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T22:11:58","slug":"notes-from-speech-by-the-nato-secretary-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/2016\/04\/06\/notes-from-speech-by-the-nato-secretary-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Speech by the NATO Secretary General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from Conversation with Secretary General of NATO <strong>Jens Stoltenberg <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Antone Christianson-Galina- Ritz Carlton April 6, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Main Challenges: Revanchist Russia, Middle East, US Presidential Campaign\n<ul>\n<li>Reminded audience that Nato has strongly supported US in Iraq<\/li>\n<li>European Allies are finally stopping defense spending cuts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ongoing Focus\n<ul>\n<li>Enhance rapid multinational force in Eastern Europe<\/li>\n<li>Enhance hybrid warfare capabilities<\/li>\n<li>Keep Strong Nuclear deterrent<\/li>\n<li>Middle East and North Africa<\/li>\n<li>Counter IS to protect NAto and Nato Allies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To Defeat and Destroy ISIL\n<ul>\n<li>Need to use force<\/li>\n<li>Must Train other nations to fight\n<ul>\n<li>Nato must make this a core competency<\/li>\n<li>Current Training Missions- Georgia, Moldova, Jordan, Afghanistan, and now Tunisia\n<ul>\n<li>King Abdullah Training Base In Jordan Training Iraqi Army<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Strongly supported Libyan Gov\u2019t in Tripoli. <strong>NOT HIFTAR<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>IED training honed in Afghanistan<\/li>\n<li>Cooperation with Gulf countries<\/li>\n<li>Nato Regional Cooperation Centered in Kuwait<\/li>\n<li>Military to Military Focused<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Russia:\n<ul>\n<li>Russia is trying to reestablish sphere of influence- Not Acceptable.<\/li>\n<li>NATO needs to provide a strong defense, which provides the ability to engage in strong dialogue\n<ul>\n<li>Less effort reorganizing bilateral effort than coordinating new networks constantly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Questions by Audience\n<ul>\n<li>Kurdistan TV- backing Peshmerga? What is Russia\u2019s Role?\n<ul>\n<li>Answer- Must strongly back Peshmmerga<\/li>\n<li>Russia\u2019s Role is to Support Assad<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>United Arab Emirates on behalf of GCC and Syrian Opposition -Backing Islamic Coalition(Backed by GCC) against ASSAD?\n<ul>\n<li>NATO pledges to support GCC in its efforts to back Islamic Coalition<\/li>\n<li>Strong YES<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ambassador of Romania- How do we keep the black sea safe?\n<ul>\n<li>Russians putting Surface to Air Missiles to prevent NATO air strikes.<\/li>\n<li>NATO strengthening anti Surface to Air Missiles to overcome A2AD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from Conversation with Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg \u00a0Antone Christianson-Galina- Ritz Carlton April 6, 2016 &nbsp; Main Challenges: Revanchist Russia, Middle East, US Presidential Campaign Reminded audience that Nato has strongly supported US in Iraq European Allies are finally stopping defense spending cuts &nbsp; Ongoing Focus Enhance rapid &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31566,43812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isis","category-modern-slavery","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}