MILITARY
Key challenges in NATO’s rivalry with Russia
January 3, 2018 - Faced with a resurgent Russia, the NATO alliance is making efforts to boost its defensive capabilities along a European frontier that stretches from the Arctic Circle to northern Syria.
European countries, which make up the overwhelming majority of NATO members, have signalled that they are taking common security more seriously. All but three of the EU’s 28 member states last month launched the so-called Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) to boost defence co-operation.