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Max Bergmann, the director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program and the Stuart Center in Euro-Atlantic and Northern European Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), joins Thanos Davelis to look at why this year's 75th anniversary of NATO is an opportunity for the US to lead the way in plotting a new course for NATO and European defense. 

As Western leaders gathered in Munich this weekend for the Munich Security Conference, warnings about Russian President Putin's possible next moves were mixed with Europe's growing concerns that it could soon be abandoned by the United States as aid to Ukraine is stalled in Congress and former President Trump casts doubts on America's commitment to NATO.

The US has so exhausted its military reserves that it is "not adequately prepared" for a long-term war with China, a leading US think tank for the military-industrial complex announced yesterday.

Dr. John J. Hamre is President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the world's number one Defense and National Security think tank. Before joining CSIS, he served as the 26th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense. Prior to holding that post, he was the Under Secretary of Defense from 1993 to 1997. In 2007, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates appointed Dr.

The head of Turkey’s top religious body, the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), began a trip to the U.S., visiting the Turkish embassy and Georgetown University in Washington on Jan. 10.