Atlantic Council

From Hillary Rodham Clinton, Atlantic Council:  [T]he Obama administration continues to update America’s ballistic missile defense systems to protect both Europe and the United States against threats from outside the continent.

From Joshua Kucera, Bug Pit:  Georgia's prime minister, Bidzina Ivanishvili, has said that he intends to get a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) next year.

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  For over sixty years, NATO has been our collective life insurance.   The Washington Treaty’s key principle can be summed up as “all for one, and one for all.”  

From the Editors of the Calgary Herald:  The Pentagon announced its intention in March to place 14 new ground-based missile interceptors in Alaska by 2017

From Clara Marina O'Donnell, Real Clear World:  [S]o far, the Obama administration has refused to give Russia legal guarantees. The US has made such commitments in the past.

From Olivier de France and Nick Witney, European Council on Foreign Relations:  [T]he European Council needs to shake up the system by itself demanding that blueprints be produced for one or two major, exemplary, integrative projects.

From ITAR-TASS:  The Russian Black Sea Fleet will be updated and improved to ensure the country's national security. Up to 20 new ships, submarines and boats will join it in the near future

From Craig Whitlock, Washington Post:  The Pentagon has deployed a small number of troops to Mali to support allied forces fighting there, despite repeated pledges by the Obama administration not to put “boots on the ground” in the war-torn African country.

From RIA Novosti:  Russia’s large landing ship Azov entered the Israeli port of Haifa on Wednesday, marking the first time a Russian warship calls at an Israeli port.

From NATO:  NATO radar surveillance aircraft, known as AWACS, patrolled the skies over the Dutch capital of Amsterdam on Tuesday (30 April), working with the Royal Netherlands Air Force to safeguard Dutch airspace during the royal investiture ceremonies and festivities.