#SecDef Mattis praised #NATO as "most successful & powerful military alliance in modern history" at 1st session of North Atlantic Council

#NATO's enhanced Forward Presence is well on its way. First Dutch troops arrived in Lithuania to join German-led multinational battalion.

#Finland issues new defense strategy rpt. Calls for modest increase in spending & wartime strength of 280K personnel defmin.fi/files/3688/J07…

"Art. 5 is a bedrock commitment. American security is permanently tied to European security." #SecDef Mattis (@DeptofDefense) at #MSC2017

#SaturdaySwag: 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇪 Soldiers conduct 50.3 km #WinterMarch in Estonia, showcasing speed to deploy, deterrence & assurance. #StrongEurope

Happy to have had LTG HR McMaster as a reviewer of our book! Wess Mitchell x.com/AaronFriedberg…

Congrats to CEPA friend HR McMaster on appointment as US Natl Security Advisor. Smart, principled Atlanticist & 1st-rate strategic thinker.

Thx to Roland Freudenstein 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇺🇸🇹🇼🇵🇱🇪🇺 & Martens Centre for great seminar today w CEPA infowar team Donald Jensen DaliaBankauskaite & Corina Rebegea.

Good chat w Linas Linkevicius & Rolandas Krisciunas -- important moment to strengthen US-LT ties. Embassy of Lithuania in DC | #StandWithUkraine CEPA

POTUS: "We strongly support NATO, an alliance forged through the bonds of two world wars..." #MakeNATOGreatAgain Wess Mitchell

"The first book on his list..." Wess Mitchell x.com/a_f13nd/status…

"McMaster's warning with respect to Russia...was based on his reading of The Unquiet Frontier" weeklystandard.com/mcmaster-and-c… Jakub Grygiel

.@USArmyEurope's LTG Ben Hodges visited #Tallinn, speaking at #LMC2017, meeting Estonian Defence Forces | Eesti Kaitsevägi's CHOD Terras & MoD Estonia's DefMin Margus Tsahkna

Over 300 🇺🇸 paratroopers from 173 Airborne Brigade Vicenza airdropped from 2 C130J aircraft at 🇮🇹 Airport of Rivolto ow.ly/p0Hs30bNefU

A pic is worth a thousand words. Zbigniew Brzeziński playing chess with PM Begin at Camp David. A loss for the transatlantic family. R.I.P.

Saddened to lose #Zbigniew #Brzezinski, a founding mbr of @CEPA Advisory Council. His work & friendship spurred my love of CE geopolitics.

#Zbigniew #Brzezinski set standard for an enlightened statecraft, informed by the tragedies of geopolitical history but not bound by them.

CEPA remembers International Advisory Council member Zbigniew Brzezinski. goo.gl/jxEbIy

On this day in history: Eisenhower speaking to Easy Company men of the 502d PIR of the US 101st Airborne Division, RAF Greenham Common, New…

F-16 Fighting Falcons deployed to #Krzesiny Air Base, #Poland supported #BALTOPS and exercise #SaberStrike. Read ➥ go.usa.gov/xNyWm