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• • Commentary
  • May 23, 2017
  NATO Allies Should Not Be Judged on Defense Spending Alone

  Last week, President Donald Trump embarked on his first big wave of foreign travel since his January inauguration. For Europe-watchers, the most anticipated event during this ...

  By Jim Townsend & Rachel Rizzo

• • Commentary
  • Defense News
  • April 26, 2017
  It's not just Europe: The DoD has a lot riding on the French elections, too

  It is not just Europe and the European Union that have something at stake in the outcome of the French elections. One of French President François Hollande’s legacies is the c...

  By Jacqueline Ramos & Jim Townsend

• • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • March 31, 2017
  For Tillerson, Showing Up at NATO Isn’t Enough

  Bowing to outside pressure, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is set to attend his first meeting with NATO’s foreign ministers on Friday. But that was not his initial plan. Sch...

  By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend