Featured Publications

U.S.-Iran Relations: Policy Compendium

MORE INFO

Article 5 and Strategic Reassurance

MORE INFO

NATO Reform and Decision-Making

MORE INFO

The U.S., NATO and the EU: Partnership in the Balance

MORE INFO

REGISTER

Get Email Updates

 

Donald Rumsfeld

Losing New Europe, Too?

James Joyner | September 15, 2009
Obama Eastern Europe Cartoon Economist

Back in 2003, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously noted that while "Old Europe" (particularly France and Germany) was hard to work with, America could count on "New Europe."   Fast forward to 2009 and we may have reversed polarity.

The Military the Country Needs

Derek S. Reveron | February 22, 2009
Robert Gates and Mike Mullen Photo

In response to a soldier’s question in 2004 about lacking the appropriate training and equipment for counterinsurgency in Iraq, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld quipped, “you go to war with the army you have.”

Add to calendar

FEATURED EVENT

U.S.-Iran Relations: Best-Case Scenario

A panel of Iran experts addressed the "best-case scenario" for U.S.-Iran relations at the Atlantic Council.  Dr. Kenneth Katzman, a Middle East scholar at the Congressional Research Service, presented his Atlantic Council-commissioned Compendium of Policies, Laws and Regulations that govern U.S. relations with Iran, and the discussion followed.

More Info

General Stephane Abrial: NATO Transformation

General Stéphane Abrial of France, Commander of NATO’s Allied Command Transformation (ACT), spoke before the Atlantic Council about ACT’s efforts to improve Alliance capabilites to meet current and future challenges as well as ACT's role in NATO’s next Strategic Concept.

More Info

2010 Awards Dinner: Clinton, Bono, Ackermann, Abrial, Mattis

More Info

MORE EVENTS

Global Leadership Circle