in this case, nato is, as a place that offers that. outside nato, if not nato, then what? well, we've seen the coalition led by the u.s., where the u.s. has taken the lead, but i think the alliance offers you a different -- a different solution. it offers a solution where, as i said, we can share risk and share responsibilities more equally. i think secretary gates, and secretary panetta and indeed secretary clinton have both talked about being more inclusive and increasing everybody's participation, and burden sharing, improving an increasing burden sharing. but -- and to do that for 28 nations in nato, i think, international legitimacy is probably a requirement to bring those 28 nations together. it's either that or a sufficiently heinous act that will trigger 28 nations. and partners, to do that. so, legitimacy, nato, and how can you get nato to operate together? but i talked about also in partners, because then regional, regional balance, i think, or regional support is important. in a case of libya, we had three arab nations, sweden joined us, and we had, of course, t

for nato it was a success. i believe we validated the strategic concept and the need for rapid response to our crisis. and it can be done. it can be done, and i think today i see many improvements as people go there. finally, we've made some new partnerships. from a military perspective, i think we need to continue to work on military cognizance. we need to link these together and be able to talk to each other as partners into an alliance. bautz because a lot of our national systems, because we have lots of stovepipes and we have to build new systems to bridge these points, and my point to the makers of these systems is i don't need translator boxes that will take various languages or various classifications, i need multiple language systems that i can jump back and forth while allowing them to have their own privacy and secrecy. i think we've learned that it's smaller bombs that we require. we need precision-guided ammunition with low collateral damage effects. we need to be able to link eef other and we need

, a nato organization. so the transfer of intelligence and information became an issue as well, and it's probably a critical point we need to talk about, is exchange of information skpand the need to share, not the need to know. we looked at this problem given the tasks we had, and we established the tnc as bengazi. we knew if it fell, it would be very difficult and the population was under severe danger. regime forces had orders to kill every male between 17 and 40 years old as soon as they got into bengazi. that is the threat that was faced by the tnc and its people. tripoli was identified as the center of gravity for regime forces because orders remained and emanated from tripoli. the power remained there. finally, from a nato gravity was the alliance itself, making sure all of us would stick together. we looked at the problem, and because of the difficulty in identifying who was whom, in fact, it became difficult for us to get involved in any closing battle. in fact, the strategy designed was to hit con

opening nato membership to poland, hungary and the czech republic, and extending nato's role so that it is able to operate out of area. both reforms will require a change in nato's existing procedures. an attack on the territory of one member must, of course, continue to be regarded unambiguously as an attack on that of all. but that principle of universality need not apply to out of area activities. in deed it needs to be recognized that a wider role for nato can't be achieved if every member state has to participate in an out of area operation before it can go ahead. what is required are flexible arrangements, which to use a fashionable phrase, permit the fashionable phrase, permit the creation of coalitions of the willing. would nato expansion mark a new division of europe and give russia the right to intervene and stay outside the fold? not in the least. among other reasons, we could hold out the possibility of admitting those countries which subsequently demonstrate a commitment to demographic values and which have plagued military forces up to an acceptable standard. that would

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says in response to nato. the old warplanes will be scrapped by the u.s. troops who arrive here shortly they'll be bringing missiles with them. local residents have already been told that they won't be getting any compensation for having the new arsenal placed so close to their homes. and out on the we are not overjoyed at the prospect of these weapons being deployed a few hundred metres from our homes on them or you've got the missiles will pose a threat to the local population of over one thousand people. elizabeth a demand sca a schoolteacher came to reject a book from warsaw a long time ago she knows only too well what the villages think about the military installation. the newest of course none of us of this most of the people even here are farmers. and of course they were very war it's an absolute hearing use of deployment for the time being though the base and we. wait. but even first graders in the village of rhetoric of a are aware of the military base. but the school children don't fully understand the threat so that teaches bring them up to date

nato countries or in which to respect the deployment of them military installations to europe. new american military bases may soon be set up in kazakhstan. turkmenistan and tajikistan. once russia has been encircled by military bases a new geopolitical reality will emerge we need to take this reality into account already today but and take measures to control potential threats to our security. meanwhile the view that the missile defense shield is too expensive is getting increasing currency inside the united states itself it provides financial backing to the armed forces moreover the project is making millions of dollars from nato sub contractors in various countries. between two thousand and five and two thousand and nine the us has spent fifty billion dollars and the price paid for the entire program that we are dealing with right now here in two thousand and eleven is another hundred and fifty billion dollars that's larger than many country's entire military budgets. some of the funding for the missile defense system in europe is being put to use in poland and north the sma

two days of anti western protests across the country with thousands taking to the streets both the nato general and the white house apologize for the burning here's the white house spokesman jay carney yesterday we apologize yeah people in this group such conduct in the strongest possible terms this would be equally unfortunate incident that does not reflect the great respect for military has for the religious practices of the iraqi people. now as america's longest war drags on it's hard to blame the afghan people for struggling to see that great respect that carney spoke of the koran burning was likely a grave mistake the photos showing marines urinating on corpses were disgusting actions of a few individuals and while these kinds of instance incidents are outrageous enough to spark anger in their own right anti-american sentiment in afghanistan is inherently tight u.s. policy where we have night raids secret jails support for corrupt officials warlords and malicious and how do you win the hearts and minds of a population that is in the midst of essentially an ongoing occupation by for

in this case, nato is a place that offers in a. outside nato, if not nato then what? , we've seen coalitions being led by the u.s. where the u.s. has taken the lead and worked it, but i think the alliance offers you a different solution. it offers a solution where as i said we can share risk and share responsibilities more equally. i think secretary gates and secretary panetta and indeed secretary clinton have all talked about being inclusive and having everybody's participation and thus burden sharing and increase burden sharing. and to do that for 28 nations in nato i think international legitimacy is probably a requirement to bring those 28 nations together. it's either there or sufficiently heinous act that will trigger 28 nations and partners to do that. so legitimacy, nato and can you get nato to operate together, but i talked about also in partners because then regional -- regional balance -- regional support is important. in the case of libya we had three arab nations, sweden joined us and we had the nato nations. surrounding it the region itself was stable en

well that's it's it's an interesting point and it's a weird kind of mathematics that the nato forces are using with this and as you mentioned some experts who study this the use of nigerians have seen that as the increase the support among afghan civilians for the nato mission decreases so the more you need use night raids the less this million population is on your side but when i was last there in afghanistan a few months ago u.s. officials were telling me that despite this night raids were still considered the most effective and one of the safest methods for targeting specific insurgents and they cited their own statistics to say that they more often captured a person they were looking for then chilled or injured any civilians accidentally so even though it plays out in the media that we were seeing it today and now. the u.s. military and nato still think it's a good idea so they have not gotten to the point where they're willing to really examine it yet and possibly with that from until after now unfortunately this isn't the only policy that has some questionable consequences i w

all right rick rose off from the group stop nato thanks for your time. well into one hundred thousand people have taken to the streets of moscow st petersburg and other cities to voice their political views ahead of the march fourth presidential vote in a russia artie's peter all for has more. well saturday was a day of demonstrations here in the russian capital we saw a march and a rally by opposition supporters a large group of them meeting in the center of the city and marching here to block my a square which block my has really become the central focus point for opposition protesters here in moscow this is the second time that opposition protesters have taken to pull last night a square far fewer this time than last but of course the the weather a big deciding factor in cripplingly mode temperatures here in the russian capital in fact the organizers of the protest here shortened the events that were going to be happening just to make it more comfortable for people who had come out in the cold minus twenty times on saturday here in moscow. so they cam

defense system which would include russia and the european union nato and the united states washington says that it's ready to cooperate but it has to have a tough stance always going to its defense while the foreign minister says that this is russia's foreign minister says this issue through etan's the positive relationship between these two branches the eastern and the western branch of the european civilization like they said russia and the united states but of course there are many great examples of positive cooperation between russia and the northern north atlantic treaty organization for example cooperation in afghanistan and with transit problems for nato in pakistan russia is playing a major wall in the operation there giving its air corridor or through its airspace and there's also of course a great example of. cooperation between washington and moscow being the new strategic arms reduction treaty with the two biggest nuclear arms holders now reducing their arsenals because of that cooperation. from the annual security complex in munich thank you. protests have been raging acr

and nato troops and even more so to wound seriously u.s. troops so really that is the primary form of military pressure they have on u.s. and nato forces they're not going to give it up and that has grown because the war itself has grown as u.s. and nato troops have increased in the country well be obgyn government be able to control the country after a u.s. combat troops withdraw may be earlier than expected. well one of the indicators that the the afghan government is not going to be able to maintain control through its own security forces the afghan army and afghan national police is a report that has been published here in the united states by a lieutenant colonel in the u.s. army who has come back from afghanistan after. an eighteen month tour and who says based on his own personal experience traveling all over afghanistan where u.s. and nato forces are are stationed that he has found over and over again that the afghan security forces have been unable in usual cases unwilling to carry out operations effectively against the taliban and

nato is now 28 members. i remember as a kid it was 12 and 16, now it's 28. i had the privilege and opportunity to share the nato high-level group while i was in government, which is the group that oversee snait weaponato we policy. i met in brussels with every member of nato, except for french who do not participate in the high-level group. 27 out of 28. with the french we met privately. as can you imagine, with any group of 28, this had tremendous originality. if you're in poland on the edge of the russian border with the history you've had with russia, have you one view about the need for these systems. if you're in spain on the beach, you have a different view. it's not easy to come to a kind on what to do. but overall there was very strong support among the nato members to go forward with what the u.s. proposed. they thought it was important to reassure the public and officials that the u.s. would be there especially at a time when president obama is advocating reduction of nuclear weapons, the nuclear guarantee has been the cornerstone of the nato allia

nato appears to be speeding up its plans to end its combat mission in afghanistan. france, the u.s., and the wider alliances said they want afghan forces to be in control of combat forces by mid-2013, a year earlier than expected. in another strategic development, nato defense ministers have agreed on germany as the base for missile defense shield. >> the command center for the controversial missile shield is to be located at the air force base in western germany. nato says the system will help defend europe from missiles launched in the middle east. but moscow has been slow to accept the idea. >> russia is reluctant at the moment, but it is important that russia participates in order to make clear that this project is not aimed at russia. >> afghanistan is another issue troubling the defense ministers. washington and paris have announced plans to shift their focus from fighting to training as early as next year. no big deal, nato officials say. >> based on all i have heard and all i have seen, i think all allies and all partners stick to the decisions we took in li