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Before NATO's leaders met in Ankara, strategist Mehmet Öğütçü laid out a bold blueprint: five new mechanisms to fuse military deterrence with economic and industrial resilience. So, did the Summit deliver?

Not by name, but two of his five ideas quietly resurfaced in Ankara's own announcements. Swipe through to see what was proposed, what NATO's Declaration actually said, and where ambition met (or missed) reality. 🇹🇷🛡️

➡️ Don't miss Mehmet Öğütçü's latest ! Read the entire article on our website/ Read the article - link in bio.

As geopolitical competition, technological disruption and regional crises reshape the international security environment, the NATO Defense College Foundation is strengthening the expertise that guides its work.

The renewed Scientific Board brings together academics, diplomats, military leaders and policy experts, combining longstanding experience with new perspectives across defence, foreign policy and strategic analysis.

Its contribution will reinforce the Foundation’s ability to anticipate emerging risks, connect developments across regions and translate complexity into rigorous research and meaningful policy dialogue.

We are proud to welcome the new members and grateful to the entire Board for supporting the NDCF’s mission!

📢 Welcome to the Weekly Recap of "NATO Affairs: Today's Overview"

🌍 Stay up to date with the latest developments, key decisions, and strategic moves shaping NATO's role in global security.

📰 This week in NATO:

🔷Neptune Strike 26-3 Validates Nato's Ability To Command And Integrate Allied Forces
🔷Italian, Spanish And Turkish Air Defence Detachments Replace The French, Portuguese And Romanian Jets Assigned For Nato Air Policing Mission
🔷 NATO chief discusses Russian missile violation of Polish airspace, reaffirms alliance support
🔷 France Assumes Air Component Command Of Nato Allied Reaction Force (Arf)

Stay informed as NATO continues to adapt and respond to emerging security challenges. Let us know your thoughts in the comments!

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📢 Welcome to the Weekly Recap of "NATO Affairs: Today's Overview"

🌍 Stay up to date with the latest developments, key decisions, and strategic moves shaping NATO's role in global security.

📰 This week in NATO:

🔷 IBAN signs MoUs with Belgium, Türkiye and The Netherlands audit bodies
🔷 North Atlantic Council approves NATO-funding for upcoming years, agrees Fuel Supply Chain Plan
🔷 Canadian Armed Forces conduct Operation LATITUDE in alignment with NATO's Arctic activities
🔷 Ukrainian Navy gains NATO certification for 1st time to lead multinational mine countermeasure forces

Stay informed as NATO continues to adapt and respond to emerging security challenges. Let us know your thoughts in the comments!

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The Ankara summit reaffirmed political cohesion and signalled credible deterrence to NATO's adversaries.

Discussions were focused on strengthening defence industrial capacity, investing in emerging technologies, enhancing resilience against hybrid threats, and sustaining credible deterrence through higher, better-targeted defence spending.

Turkey's hosting underscored its geostrategic value at Europe's crossroads, while NATO's consensus-driven processes proved an asset for aligning diverse national priorities.

Don't miss Jason Pack's latest ! Read the full article - link in bio.

How different is NATO today from the Alliance that met in Riga in 2006?

A few weeks after the Ankara Summit, we look back at two decades of NATO’s evolution through the perspective of the NATO Defense College Foundation, led by Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, who attended the Riga Summit as NATO Deputy Secretary General.

From enlargement and collective defence to emerging technologies and the shift in NATO’s approach to Russia, this carousel explores some of the key strategic transformations that have shaped the Alliance over the past twenty years, concluding with Ambassador Minuto-Rizzo’s reflection on NATO’s remarkable capacity to adapt to a changing security environment while preserving unity through consensus.

We thank the senior officials, diplomats, military representatives and regional experts who joined us in Rome on 9 July for the High-Level Workshop Perspectives from the Horn of Africa.

The discussion examined the Horn as a strategic system linking the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, where conflict dynamics, geopolitical competition and disruptions to critical maritime routes increasingly converge.

Participants stressed the need to move from reactive crisis management to preventive action, reinforce African political ownership, improve NATO-EU-AU-IGAD coordination and combine AI-supported analysis with regional expertise to strengthen early warning and policy anticipation.

The Workshop confirmed a central point: sustainable security in the Horn depends not on military instruments alone, but on political solutions, institutional coordination and resilient regional partnerships.

The NATO Defense College Foundation will continue translating these findings into research, dialogue and practical tools for preventive diplomacy.

The High-Level Workshop was organised by the NATO Defense College Foundation, in cooperation with Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione CSF, and the NATO Defense College; in media partnership with Adnkronos, Africa ExPress and Africa Confidential

Your energy bill starts at Bab-el-Mandeb.

A missile fired in Yemen. A tanker rerouted around the Cape of Good Hope. Twelve extra days at sea. That surcharge moves down the chain until it lands on a household bill in Berlin, Milan or Madrid.

Houthi attacks, a resurgence of Somali piracy, Russia's push for a naval foothold at Port Sudan, the Ethiopia–Somaliland dispute: none of these are isolated stories. Together, they're reshaping the security of a chokepoint that carries a huge share of the energy Europe depends on.

The World Bank puts container freight costs 141% above pre-crisis levels. ISPI estimates a Red Sea-scale shock could push European headline inflation up by as much as 1.8% in a year.

This carousel closes our three-part series on the Horn of Africa, and the picture it leaves us with is clear: instability in this corridor is not a niche risk, but a European one.

If you want to go beyond the headlines and understand what's really at stake, join us for the High-Level Workshop "Perspectives from the Horn of Africa": the event will bring together policymakers, energy and security experts, and analysts to unpack the region's instability in full, and what it means for Europe's energy security, supply chains, and the future of preventive diplomacy.

🗓️ 9 July | 4:30 PM – 8:30 PM
📍 NH Roma Centro, Via dei Gracchi 324, Rome
🥂 Networking cocktail reserved for participants

Link in bio for the Workshop Programme and the registration form.

📢 Welcome to the Weekly Recap of "NATO Affairs: Today's Overview"

🌍 Stay up to date with the latest developments, key decisions, and strategic moves shaping NATO's role in global security.

📰 This week in NATO:

🔷 Türkiye's Erdogan says NATO summit must emphasise unity and resilience
🔷 Nato chief says he is confident Burnham will stick to defence spending target
🔷 Allies strengthen Integrated Air and Missile Defence across the Baltics and Black Sea
🔷 NATO Secretary General in Berlin: Germany leads and Germany delivers

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