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Terry Szuplat

...to sustain America's commitment to NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization]...
...sustain America's commitment to NATO [ North Atlantic Treaty Organization ], sustain our commitment t...

Ben Rhodes

...because we were going to go get the NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...we were going to go get the NATO [ North Atlantic Treaty Organization ] countries to make up the difference...
...of influence, as defined by Putin. The NATO enlargement, the extension o...
...to Ukraine and Georgia to submit NATO membership action plans, a whole sle...

Samuel Locklear

...Europe and Africa, and commander of NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] '...
...and Africa, and commander of NATO [ North Atlantic Treaty Organization ] 's Allied Joint Force Command. Fro...
...particularly in my first position in NATO and then later on in the Pacifi...
...conversation on what was happening with NATO at that time, and maybe we'll get t...
...highlighted it, what was going on with NATO at that time, and in the alliance? Wha...

...the commanding of the southern half of NATO , is what the Joint Allied Forc...
...time, and that would reflect, then, to NATO a lack of desire by the member nation...
...the member nations there to really fund NATO to the level it should be. So it'...
...a recipe that if you're going to be in NATO , you've got to kind of take two and ...
...really want to put the investment into NATO . So the NATO that I walked into was ...
...to put the investment into NATO. So the NATO that I walked into was a larger NAT...
...NATO that I walked into was a larger NATO than it started out years ago. It wa...
...attack Europe. Quite frankly, I think NATO in the north really was looking for ...
...really was looking for a mission. The NATO in the south, however, had the whol...
...tried to keep the capabilities of the NATO alliance good enough to be able t...
...French early on, and then later through NATO , as we transitioned it from Odysse...
...It also showed that the participating NATO countries—they all didn't participate...
...play, either in a coalition or through NATO , in any sort of intervention i...
...we thought it eventually would go to NATO , that the NATO planners also have ...
...eventually would go to NATO, that the NATO planners also have a tremendous abilit...
...the members that were affected most in NATO —particularly the Italians, the French...
...to make sure that this debate about NATO , and whether you were going to fund i...
...the planning for transitioning it to NATO , once NATO agreed to take it. And tha...
...for transitioning it to NATO, once NATO agreed to take it. And that the U...
...to look around for another commander, a NATO commander, potentially a foreig...
...just take it, and now you put on your NATO hat.” What that meant for me, though...
...me, though, was that once it went into NATO was that now I was accountable to NAT...
...NATO was that now I was accountable to NATO and NATO leadership for what happened...
...that now I was accountable to NATO and NATO leadership for what happened, as wel...
...in this was to make sure that NATO countries were involved an...
...and on, but we even had some outside of NATO that were participating. But you migh...
...You just go do it. When you go into a NATO scenario, it's quite different. Fo...
...and they go execute it. When you're in NATO , you lay them on the table and yo...
...they did very well. Their targeting in NATO was supported by countries like th...
...for that as well. What was happening, NATO was running on frustration after abou...
...read any newspaper in any one of the NATO countries, and I think you'd get tha...
...get that sense. It was never stated by NATO of that, or by our president, but you'...
...and killed, there was a feeling in NATO , We need to get this over with. W...
...it might drag out for a long time. NATO would get weary. America would ge...
...was learned from it. I think it gave NATO a needed boost at a time when the...
...we're in right now with Ukraine, NATO might've been even much less capable o...
...that. It showed a continuing ability of NATO and the United States to share som...
...a European Europe. We didn't have a NATO . We've got these large, vast countrie...
...to be honest with you. When I was in NATO , I oversaw the Kosovo operation, and ...
...I still believe that today. I think NATO is right there with it. But I think, a...

Tom Donilon

...Obama a couple times, maybe when he was NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...couple times, maybe when he was NATO [ North Atlantic Treaty Organization ] supreme allied commander in Europe...
...Relations in Chicago and was our NATO ambassador, and Derek Chollet, who is ...

Antony Blinken

...endorsing taking action. And we had NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] a...
...taking action. And we had NATO [ North Atlantic Treaty Organization ] as an organization prepared to b...
...and others, this was something—and NATO 's willingness to act as a...
...of Libya's neighbors, the Arab League, NATO support. It seems to me—and I'd b...

Rick Jordan

...The concern I had—I'm sorry—we had a NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...concern I had—I'm sorry—we had a NATO [ North Atlantic Treaty Organization ] group. And China was involved wit...
...time Russia had ever taken part in a NATO exercise and that sort of thing. Bu...

Leon Panetta

...to Libya—made the decision along with NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...the decision along with NATO [ North Atlantic Treaty Organization ] that we were not going to let th...
...was made that we would do this as a NATO mission. It was really important t...
...get rid of Qaddafi, and also involve NATO in probably the kind of mission tha...
...in probably the kind of mission that NATO ultimately is going to have to do mor...

...in many ways it was a model for how NATO can be effective in the future, and th...
...operations in Libya as part of the NATO coalition—I wondered if you could jus...

Azizullah Royesh

...go to the American Embassy, to the NATO headquarters, and to Camp Phoenix. Cam...
...of interactions. He helped us to go to NATO headquarters. He helped us ge...

Esther Brimmer

...in France has the European Union, NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization]...
...France has the European Union, NATO [ North Atlantic Treaty Organization ], and the UN. Counterpart in Brazi...
...with the Czech Republic and NATO , but he really talks about th...

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