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IT’S HERE! 🎉 NATO 20/2020 is a new report that offers 20 bold ideas to reimagine the Alliance after the 2020 US Election.

Why bother reading it? [1/8]
Think @NATO’s days are in the past? We need @NATO now more than ever—and we need it to #DoMore like designing a Digital Marshall Plan to bring secure 5G to NATO members 📶 [2/8] atlanticcouncil.org/content-series…
We also need @NATO to #DoLess like repealing the 2% of GDP standard for defense spending and replacing it with principles actually focused on capabilities and results. [3/8] atlanticcouncil.org/content-series…
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Introducing Olivia Seltzer (@thecramm), @RNicholasBurns remembers Sept 11, 2001 as then-US ambassador to NATO. "It was an emotional day, because Americans are not accustomed to being on the defensive… All of our NATO allies stood up that day and they supported us. #NATOEngages
"And that's why I support @NATO," says @RNicholasBurns, "because Americans shouldn't want to live alone in the world." #NATOEngages
"We're powerful," says @RNicholasBurns of the United States, "but we can't defeat climate change on our own… we can't arrest war on our own. We can't get much of anything done without Britain, without France, without Germany, without Greece… I'm grateful to @NATO." #NATOEngages
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“We will never forget that when the United States was attacked our @NATO allies had our back.” Twenty-nine together are stronger than one alone, #NeverForget #StrongerWithAllies
@NATO was the answer seventy years ago… and it is still the answer today,” #neverforget our allies that stood shoulder to shoulder on this #911Anniversary. #StrongerWithAllies
The @NATO alliance faces threats from within and without, #911Anniversary is a time to remember the 3,000 friends we lost, and the ones that came to America’s aid that fateful morning, #Neverforget #StrongerWithAllies
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One of our core pillars of work is to navigate great power competition in a non-partisan way. Today, Dr. Esper, the 23rd Secretary of the Army, speaks to us about why the national defense strategy calls for a shift in focus from counterinsurgency to high intensity conflict. 1/
Russia and China are rapidly modernizing their militaries and have been doing so for many years. "Since the end of the Cold War, the US military has maintained an unparalleled overmatch on the battlefield but that gap has narrowed," @SecArmy says at #ACDefense. 2/
In the future environment, large, slow formations and stationary units are targets waiting to be destroyed. "Mobility and speed will be the key to survival," @SecArmy says. #ACDefense 3/
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Did you miss @JustinTrudeau and ministers @cafreeland and @HarjitSajjan, “Canada’s dream team,” as they were warmly welcomed by Karen Donfried of @gmfus at #NATOEngages?

𝙔𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙪𝙘𝙠! This thread recaps their panel from earlier this morning with video.

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PM @JustinTrudeau at #NATOEngages on why @NATO is as important today as when it was created:

“It’s about enhancing and protecting the democratic principles that we all hold as our core values. And that is something that continues to be as relevant as it ever has been.” 2/
On NATO deciding to take a significant new role in Iraq, Canadian PM @JustinTrudeau—“We are going to engage in Iraq as an alliance—capacity building, training…”

Canada will commit 250 troops, a number of helicopters, and is offering to command the mission for the first year. 3/
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