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NATO Looks at Military Spending
2015 - NATO focuses on developing capabilities with latest defense budget agreement.

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Russian TU 95 bomber followed by NATO planes
The Russian Tupolev TU-95 bombers, known as Bears, were picked up in international airspace to the north west of Britain at round 6.30pm and escorted as they flew south, then turned around...

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NATO will wait and see how Afghan forces perform in the upcoming fighting season before assessing whether they'll need the help of foreign forces, including Australians, beyond the end of next year.

General Knud Bartels, Danish chairman of NATO's military committee, said Afghanistan was on the right track to become a stable and secure nation.

The general, who's visiting Australia for talks on security issues, said that for the first time Afghan National Security Forces were responsible for their entire country.

About 12,000 foreign troops including 400 Australians remain in Afghanistan to train and assist Afghan forces under the NATO Resolute Support Mission.

That ends at the end of 2016, raising concerns that Afghan forces will struggle as they confront a resurgent Taliban without foreign assistance.

General Bartels said this was just the start of Resolute Support, and there was a year to assess how the situation was unfolding.

'There is no doubt we need to have a pragmatic approach as to timelines in 2015 and particularly the fighting season in 2015,' he said.

'During this process we will conduct consultations with the 28 allies who are our partners in this endeavour to define we are going to move beyond the end of 2016.'

General Bartels said Afghanistan was moving in the right direction.

'It doesn't mean there are no challenges. It doesn't mean that there is a 100 per cent guarantee at the end of the day. But I would say the chances are increasing on a daily basis for positive outcomes on Afghanistan.'

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President of Russia, Vladimir Putin (Getty)

Sir Adrian told the Royal United Services Institute there was a danger such a campaign of undercover attacks could paralyse Nato decision making, as members disagreed over how much Russia was responsible, and how to respond.

Nato commanders fear a campaign of skilfully disguised, irregular military action by Russia, which is carefully designed not to trigger the alliance's mutual defence pact.

He said the "resulting ambiguity" would make "collective decisions relating to the appropriate responses more difficult".

But Sir Adrian, one of the most senior generals in the British Army and a former director of special forces, went further and said there was also danger that Russia could use conventional forces and Soviet-era brinkmanship to seize Nato territory.

He said Russia had shown last year it could generate large conventional forces at short notice for snap exercises along its borders. There was a danger these could be used not only for intimidation and coercion but potentially to seize Nato territory, after which the threat of escalation might be used to prevent re-establishment of territorial integrity. This use of so called escalation dominance was of course a classic Soviet technique.

He went on to say that the threat from Russia, together with the risk it brings of a miscalculation resulting in a strategic conflict, however unlikely we see it as being right now, represents an existential threat to our whole being.

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon (PA)

Nato has agreed to set up a rapid reaction force of around 5,000 troops ready to move at 48 hours notice, in case of Russian agression in Eastern Europe. Supplies, equipment and ammunition will be stockpiled in bases in the region. Alliance leaders hope the force will deter any incursion.

David Cameron warned Vladimir Putin there will be more sanctions and "more consequences" for Russia if the ceasefire in Ukraine does not hold.

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NATO Secretary General - Doorstep Statement at informal meeting of EU defence ministers, 18 FEB 2015
Doorstep statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the informal meeting of European Union defence ministers in Riga, Latvia, 18 February 2015.

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Former NATO chief: Russia testing the West
Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen tells Robyn Curnow about Russia #39;s ambitions in Ukraine.

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By David WroeFeb. 18, 2015, 6:12 p.m.

The military head of NATO has confirmed the alliance hopes Australia will remain in Afghanistan - including militarily - beyond the current withdrawal date of the end of 2016.

NATO military committee chairman General Knud Bartels. Photo: Carlos Alvarez

NATO military committee chairman General Knud Bartels. Photo: Carlos Alvarez

NATO military committee chairman General Knud Bartels. Photo: Carlos Alvarez

NATO military committee chairman General Knud Bartels. Photo: Carlos Alvarez

The military head of NATO has confirmed the alliance hopes Australia will remain in Afghanistan - including militarily - beyond the current withdrawal date of the end of 2016.

NATO military committee chairman General Knud Bartels has also told Fairfax Media in a wide-ranging interview that it will take "decades" to defeat Islamic extremism in the Middle East.

"Engaging ISIL and defeating ISIL and putting in place sustainable government institutions across the whole range of the [Middle East] area will take a long time," he said, using the acronym for the Islamic State terror group.

Asked to quantify it, he said "decades".

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Lack o Defense Minister caused Nato to ignore Afghanistan
Afghanistan not discussed in recent NATO summit because Afghanistan has not appointed a defense minister to represent the country in NATO summit. Lina Rozbih...

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Nuke blask Feb. 8, 2015 Donetsk, Ukraine NATO Satellite Image
Huge blast captured from space from NATO satellite.

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