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Gen. Wes Clark, US Army Ret., NATO’s 12th Supreme Allied Commander, discusses lessons from the Alliance’s past and overcoming today’s challenges with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the NATO Engages: The Alliance at 70 event in Washington, DC. The gathering, commemorating NATO’s 70th anniversary, was sponsored by the Atlantic Council, the German Marshall Fund, the Munich Security Conference and other leading organizations including the German Foreign Ministry and other think tanks.

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Adm. Manfred Nielson, German Navy, NATO’s deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, discusses the alliance’s recent exercises in Albania and Georgia, building capability development capabilities, and improving civil-military integration to address security challenges with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the NATO Engages conference sponsored by the Atlantic Council, the German Marshall Fund, the Munich Security Conference and other think tanks in Washington, DC, to mark the 70th anniversary of NATO that founded by the Washington Treaty on April 4, 1949, with 12 nations that has grown to 29 nations today.

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Stephen Flanagan, PhD, senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation think tank, discusses the challenges facing NATO on its 70th anniversary, challenges, as well as Turkey and the alliance with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the NATO Engages: The Alliance at 70 event sponsored by the Atlantic Council, the German Marshall Fund, the Munich Security Conference and other think tanks and organizations to mark NATO’s founding with the signing of the Washington Treaty on April 4, 1949. From those 12 founding nations, 29 nations are now members.

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Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., the chairman of the House government operations subcommittee as well as chairman of the US delegation to the NATO parliamentary assembly, discusses NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s historic address to a joint session of Congress and the Atlantic Alliance on its 70th anniversary with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the NATO Engages event marking the 70th anniversary of the Washington Treaty that founded the alliance on April 4, 1949, sponsored by the Atlantic Council, the German Marshall Fund, the Munich Security Conference and numerous other leading think tanks.

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Kasper Høeg-Jensen, the head of the security policy and operations department of Denmark’s ministry of defense, discusses closer Nordic cooperation, NATO, Greenland, China, climate change and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview, conducted at the residence of Sweden’s ambassador to the United States, followed an Atlantic Council event in Washington marking 10th anniversary of the Nordic Defense Cooperation agreement to improve collaboration among Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

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Svein Efjestad, the policy director at Norway’s defense ministry, discusses lessons from NATO’s Trident Juncture 2018 exercise the country hosted, balancing the Atlantic alliance and Nordic Defense Cooperation, emerging threats like China, cyber and 5G, and the Trump administration’s Cost Plus 50 proposal with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview, conducted at the residence of Sweden’s ambassador to the United States, followed an Atlantic Council event in Washington marking 10th anniversary of the Nordic Defense Cooperation agreement improve collaboration among Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

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Johan Lagerlöf, the deputy director general and head of strategy and security policy at Sweden’s Defense Ministry, and Maj. Gen. Michael Claesson, Swedish Army, the Swedish Armed Forces’ head of plans and policy who also serves as chairman of the Nordic Defense Cooperation Military Coordination Committee, discuss NORDEFCO’s closer cooperation among Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, the organization’s 2025 plan, Russia, China, cyber and disinformation threats, climate change and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview, conducted at the residence of Sweden’s ambassador to the United States, followed an Atlantic Council event in Washington marking NORDEFCO’s 10th anniversary and what’s next.

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Amb. (Ret.) Doug Lute, a retired US Army lieutenant general who served as US ambassador to NATO, and Amb. (Ret.) Nick Burns, one of America’s top former diplomats who also served as US ambassador to NATO — both now affiliated with Harvard University — discuss their new report “NATO at Seventy: An Alliance in Crisis” and the vital importance of the Atlantic Alliance and America’s role in it with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Center for a New American Security where the report by Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs was publicly released.

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Tom Karako, the missile defense expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses the Trump administration’s decision to exit the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia and future systems with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The conversation also included a recap of a Feb. 1, 2019, panel discussion on what’s next now that the administration has completed its Missile Defense Review, hosted by Karako at the think tank, that included Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy David Trachtenberg and Lt. Gen. Sam Greaves, USAF, the director of the Missile Defense Agency.

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