DefenceTalkBrussels: NATO head Jens Stoltenberg said Monday the alliance will approve plans this week to more than double the size of its rapid response force, having already created a special spearhead unit in the fallout from the Ukraine crisis. “NATO defence ministers… (will) take a decision to further increase the strength and capacity of the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nato-head-says-alliance-to-more-than-double-rapid-response-force-size-64611/

DefenceTalkThis year, NATO is conducting its largest maneuver since the end of the Cold War. Now the rapid action forces, established last autumn, are displaying their fighting skills. Barbara Wesel reports from Poland. “Birdman” is the name that maneuver planners have given the opponent in the Bothnian enemy camp. He must be retrieved from a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nato-rapid-reaction-force-trains-in-poland-64601/

DefenceTalkThe Alliance’s 28 leaders at their Wales Summit on Friday (5 September 2014) agreed on a Readiness Action Plan to strengthen NATO’s collective defence and to ensure the Alliance is ready to deal with any challenge. “This is a demonstration of our solidarity and resolve,” said NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The Secretary General […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nato-leaders-take-decisions-to-ensure-robust-alliance-60543/

DefenceTalkSeptember is Suicide Prevention Month and the Department of the Army joins our nation and the world in observing National Suicide Prevention Week, Sept. 8-14, 2013, in the U.S. and the World Health Organization’s World Suicide Prevention Day, Sept. 10, as part of efforts to promote awareness about suicide and empower individuals and communities to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/sustaining-drumbeat-of-ready-and-resilient-force-through-awareness-action-49034/

DefenceTalkNATO defence ministers agreed Tuesday to set up rapid reaction teams to help defend the military alliance against a growing number of cyber-attacks, many of them blamed on China. “In the progress report we have adopted today, we agreed to establish rapid reaction teams that can help protect NATO’s own systems,” alliance head Anders Fogh […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nato-to-set-up-cyber-defence-rapid-reaction-teams-48048/