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NATO’S STRATEGIC CONCEPT - A Canadian Perspective
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La sécurité dans un monde d’incertitude: Un point de vue canadien sur le nouveau concept stratégique de l’OTAN
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Security in an Uncertain World: A Canadian Perspective on NATO’s New Strategic Concept
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Canada and NATO—mutually dependent Tom Caldwell, Toronto Star, 31 March 2010
Revamp NATO to better respond to terrorist threat, become more nimble: think tank John Ward, The Canadian Press, 24 March 2010
NATO needs re-tooling: Canadian study Juliet O’Neill, Canwest News Service, 24 March 2010
Elizabeth Thompson, Sun Media, 24 March 2010
Une étude canadienne propose une profonde réforme de l'OTAN Alec Castonguay, Le Devoir, 24 mars 2010
NATO must change radically, Canadian groups warn Paul Koring, The Globe and Mail, 24 March 2010
Multimedia
Radio Canada International interview with LGen (Ret’d) Michel Maisonneuve, 2 April 2010 (interview starts at 12:55)
Radio-Canada interview with LGen (Ret’d) Michel Maisonneuve, 25 March 2010
National Press Gallery Press Conference, 24 March 2010, Ottawa (CPAC recording starts at 1:50:27) |
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In July 2009, with a view to releasing a new Strategic Concept for NATO in late 2010, the Secretary General of NATO tasked former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and a Group of Experts, to address the issue and propose recommendations by the spring of 2010. In late 2009 members of the Conference of Defence Associations Institute (CDA Institute) and the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI) came together to articulate a way ahead for NATO. The aim was to provide a contribution to the Group of Experts that would outline, from a Canadian perspective, the most salient challenges and opportunities facing the Alliance. The group of contributors to this project is a mélange of military, diplomatic and policy practitioners and academics. The range and weight of their experience—a former Minister of National Defence, three former Chiefs of the Defence Staff and a former Chairman of the Military Committee of NATO, a former Ambassador to NATO, a Clerk of the Privy Council, NATO field commanders, strategists and staff officers, former Ambassadors, public servants and politicians, academic experts, among others—deliver what we hope to be a paper that offers a vision for NATO's future that is grounded in the art of the possible. |