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What history reveals about the future By János Matus, Ph.D., International Business School, Budapest, Hungary The British vote to leave the European Union came as a surprise to many people and raised many questions about the EU’s…

Edited by:  U.S. Army Col. William Mendel and Dr. Peter McCabe PUBLISHED BY:  JSOU Press REVIEWED BY:  per Concordiam Staff It is counterintuitive that nations should employ special operations military forces to combat…

AUTHORS: Peter R. Mansoor and Williamson Murray PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press, 2016 REVIEWED BY: per Concordiam Staff Seven precarious coalitions battled French attempts to dominate Europe in the Napoleonic…

North Macedonia and Euro-Atlantic integration By Slovenian Navy Capt. Gorazd Bartol, former chief of the NATO Liaison Office in Skopje, North Macedonia Since the 1949 signing of NATO’s founding document, the Washington Treaty, NATO’s…

The Marshall Center celebrates a milestone of its own By Ralf Roloff deputy dean for resident programs at the Marshall Center In June 2018, the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies celebrated its 25th anniversary amid…

An interview with retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at the Center for European Policy Analysis and former commander of the United States Army Europe (2014-2017) By Small Wars Journal, August 2018 QUESTION:…

Cooperation and confrontation on the Black Sea By Natia Gvenetadze, Ministry of Defence, Republic of Georgia Recent developments in the international system have increased the complexities of global security structures, not least of…

The complex and evolving NATO-Russia relationship Since February 2014, Russia, a country with 1,900 usable nuclear weapons, has annexed Crimea, destabilized eastern Ukraine, aggressively penetrated NATO airspace in the Baltics, undertaken…

Uncertain Times Jeopardize Enlargement By Pál Dunay stablished 70 years ago with the signatures of 12 original members, NATO now has 29 members, meaning more than half are accession countries. Enlargement by accession occurred over…

NATO and Nontraditional Security Challenges By Michael Rühle This observation by U.S. inventor Charles F. Kettering perfectly captures the logic of seeking to prepare for the future. Security policies are not exempt from this logic.…