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[506th IR] Operation Red Anvil 03-15 Task Force Echo
This is Operation Red Anvil in Podagorsk, where NATO forces have the RPLA on the run back to the North. The RPLA has vowed to wage a guerrilla war on the NATO forces, hiding in the hills waiting...

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Russian foreign minister criticizes NATO
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov slammed NATO, on Tuesday, for increasing military activities near Russia #39;s borders. He called for resolving disputes with the E.U. through dialogue....

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NATO Black Sea Drills: Alliance held series of exercises in east Europe in wake of Ukraine crisis
Six NATO ships took part in a joint exercise in the Black Sea off the Bulgarian coast on Tuesday. The naval rapid reaction force in the Black Sea drills cons...

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UK to throw spy budget at NATO black hole
Prime Minister David Cameron has indicated the budgets for security services MI5, MI6 and GCHQ could be merged with military defense spending to ensure Britain continues to meet a key NATO...

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NATO Secretary General with Prime Minister of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 11 MAR 2015
Joint press point with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Prime Minister of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski. Held 11 March 2015, at NATO Headquarters in ...

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MidPoint | Col. Derek Harvey discusses Russia rattling NATO ships during training exercises
The Global Initiative on Civil Society Conflict director who also served as advisor to General David Petraeus and is a former intelligence officer joins Midpoint to discuss the latest with...

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NATO boosting tangible support for members fearful of Russia
American Stryker armoured fighting vehicles rolled alongside the Estonian Army on the Baltic republic #39;s Independence Day, Feb. 24th. In the city of Narva, at the border with Russia, some 100...

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An Italian sailor from the frigate "Alieso" removes a cover from a cannon in the Black Sea port of Varna, Bulgaria, March 9, 2015.

"[NATO] feels more highly relevant to contemporary challengesmore so than it has been since the end of the Cold War," said Kathleen McInnis, a NATO and coalition warfare expert at Chatham House, a London-based policy institute. She explained that despite geopolitical worries that pervade much of Europe, many member states have struggled to make increased defense spending politically palatable.

Problems with military funding have plagued the alliance for years, but they are becoming more serious as threats on the periphery of Europe grow.

"The geopolitical reality surrounding Europe and surrounding NATO is changing so much, it's not clear that NATO members can waffle their way through this again," McInnis explained.

Read More NATO: CNBC explains

An agreement struck during the NATO summit in Wales last September reaffirmed members' commitment to spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. The declaration said that NATO countries already meeting that spending levela group that included only the United States, United Kingdom and Estoniawill continue to do so. And it said that nations under that 2 percent bar will halt spending declines and move toward the guideline within a decade.

Although the 2 percent level may seem arbitrary, it is "probably the absolute minimum modern countries can pay" in order to maintain adequate security, according to Anthony Cordesman, the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

But, as the European Leadership Network, a U.K.-based think tank, noted in a recent paper, at least six countries in NATO are expected to decrease their military spending: the U.K., Germany, Canada, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria.

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An Italian sailor from the frigate "Alieso" removes a cover from a cannon in the Black Sea port of Varna, Bulgaria, March 9, 2015.

"[NATO] feels more highly relevant to contemporary challengesmore so than it has been since the end of the Cold War," said Kathleen McInnis, a NATO and coalition warfare expert at Chatham House, a London-based policy institute. She explained that despite geopolitical worries that pervade much of Europe, many member states have struggled to make increased defense spending politically palatable.

Problems with military funding have plagued the alliance for years, but they are becoming more serious as threats on the periphery of Europe grow.

"The geopolitical reality surrounding Europe and surrounding NATO is changing so much, it's not clear that NATO members can waffle their way through this again," McInnis explained.

Read More NATO: CNBC explains

An agreement struck during the NATO summit in Wales last September reaffirmed members' commitment to spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. The declaration said that NATO countries already meeting that spending levela group that included only the United States, United Kingdom and Estoniawill continue to do so. And it said that nations under that 2 percent bar will halt spending declines and move toward the guideline within a decade.

Although the 2 percent level may seem arbitrary, it is "probably the absolute minimum modern countries can pay" in order to maintain adequate security, according to Anthony Cordesman, the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

But, as the European Leadership Network, a U.K.-based think tank, noted in a recent paper, at least six countries in NATO are expected to decrease their military spending: the U.K., Germany, Canada, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria.

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ISIS and Russia threaten-and NATO cuts spending