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Check out this excellent piece by Alexander Mattelaer on the changing Euro-Atlantic strategic landscape and its implications for NATO cc: CSDS

🎯🎯🎯 analysis by Kyle Balzer in The Hill: "to ignore the conventional factor in nuclear deterrence would be to raise the threshold for 🇺🇸 involvement in Europe while lowering the threshold for 🇷🇺 aggression, all the while weakening deterrence in Asia." thehill.com/opinion/intern…

The audacious raid on Russia’s strategic aircraft fleet is hugely significant and humiliating. But it’s not new, it’s what we used to prepare and posture for back in the day. 🧵1/7 economist.com/europe/2025/06…

A new era of threat demands a new era for UK defence 🇬🇧 We’re stepping up with a new defence strategy that puts #NATO first to deter our adversaries and defend our alliance Read the full Strategic Defence Review 👇 gov.uk/government/pub…

1/ Notes on what the UK defence review says on nuclear topics. “UK nuclear policy remains unchanged.” Reaffirms “minimum, credible” deterrence. Ambiguity on “precisely when, how...scale" of use & size of operational stockpile or deployed warheads/missiles assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/683d89f1…

Morgen spreken de #Navo defensieministers waaronder Theo Francken af hoe de militaire behoeften te verdelen om samen in onze afschrikking & verdediging te voorzien. Extra F-35s worden daarin de toetssteen voor meer 🇧🇪 veiligheid. Mijn opinie in De Tijd 👇 tijd.be/opinie/algemee…

Demain les ministres de la défense OTAN dont Theo Francken conviendront comment partager les besoins militaires pour assurer notre dissuasion & défense. Des F-35 supplémentaires seront la pierre angulaire pour plus de sécurité🇧🇪. Ma carte blanche L'Echo 👇 lecho.be/opinions/carte…

Het debat over verhoging v defensie-uitgaven slaat in 🇧🇪 in als een bom. Dat is deels het gevolg v/h gebrek aan #begov communicatie de voorbije jaren. Ipv strategische context te duiden, werd de dreiging verhuld, de Navo genegeerd & kreeg de bevolking zand in de ogen gestrooid...

Wat als België nu eens fors zou investeren in de snelle opbouw van een productielijn voor luchtdoel-munitie? Dit zou overduidelijk strategisch nuttig zijn als (a) essentiële capaciteit voor eigen gebruik, (b) ondersteuning van bondgenoten én (c) export… vrtnws.be/p.Gv5axL9Ad

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"Dans le monde d'aujourd'hui, la paix sans dissuasion est une illusion" ⚖️ "Mettre la diplomatie au centre du jeu international" 🇧🇪 Belgium MFA Maxime PREVOT reinvigorates the wisdom of Pierre Harmel in NieuwsuitDeKamer QuidàlaChambre (28:30) 🎯🎯 media.dekamer.be/meeting/56-018…

Great to see CSDS at the #NATOPublicForum, where we engaged in the key debates on the future of the Alliance. With Luis Simón Lotje Boswinkel & Alexander Mattelaer present in The Hague, this was an opportunity to share information about our current/past research projects. See below👇

To all the naysayers over the UK’s decision to acquire a tactical airborne nuclear capability, gov.uk/government/new… you may be guilty of looking at it from the wrong viewpoint. 🧵1/10

Excellent point by ⁦Belgian Defence⁩ Minister ⁦Theo Francken⁩ at the #NATOPublicForum today: NATO communication must help raise strategic awareness & explain capability needs more articulately. Strategic literacy is key to 📈 public support for defence spending.

As already foreshadowed in the SDR, the UK is joining NATO’s nuclear sharing arrangements with a DCA role. This constitutes a major strategic signal that NATO’s deterrence posture is being adapted to cope with a much more daunting security environment. bbc.com/news/articles/…

The Hague Summit Declaration issued by the Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in The Hague #NATOsummit

Very hard-hitting analysis: “Until the moment we’re forced to fight, we may not even know the real situation.”

Noteworthy.

Deze week in Knack: een kritische terugblik op de Belgische positiebepaling in aanloop naar de Navo-top in Den Haag, met enkele comments van yours truly. H/t Kamiel Vermeylen! knack.be/nieuws/belgie/…

🎧𝗘𝗚𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗧 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗨𝗧𝗘'𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧 "Global Affairs unpacked" - Episosde 3 @JCHoste is joined by Alexander Mattelaer and #SvenBiscop where they take a hard look at the outcomes of the NATO Summit in The Hague. Is the Alliance truly adapting to a more dangerous and