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What do the changes to the energy landscape following the Ukraine crisis mean for NATO? How does the organization need to change to better face energy challenges? We ask some top commentators and politicians what kind of changes they feel should be made.

00.11 – Voice-over – Paul King – Editor, NATO Review

In a globalized world no man is an island. Some 50 per cent of the EU’s gas imports from Russia still pass through Ukraine and these imports have already been interrupted twice before, in 2006 and 2009. Following the Ukraine crisis, there are fears that Europe’s energy security may be vulnerable once again.

00.32- Liam Fox – Former UK Secretary of Defence

In globalization, our interdependence means that we cannot be isolated from instability in any one part of the world. Ukraine is a very obvious example of that now, but we had that with 9/11, we had it with things like the SARS outbreak. We’re a much more interdependent world.

00.51 – Voice-over – Paul King – Editor, NATO Review

But energy movements are decided largely by private companies in commercial deals, at least in the West. So what role can an international organisation like NATO play?

01.01 – Amb. Kurt Volker – Former US ambassador to NATO

Energy security is not something that NATO would sell or control. It is again, national decisions, economic decisions, infrastructure decisions, European Union level decisions… But it can be a forum for consultation, for places where countries such as the Baltic States can raise concerns with other allies, and that we can talk about the implications of the dependencies that exist and the need for addressing them and also how we can share pain.

01.28 – Marc Jacobson – Adjunct Professor, The George Washington University, US

I think there is also a real case to be made that NATO needs to recast the role it originally envisaged in 1949. By this I mean inclusion of other ministries during North Atlantic Council sessions, for example Ministers of Finance. And this is representative of the more holistic challenges the world faces today.

01.49 – Voice-over – Paul King – Editor, NATO Review

This adaptation will require a new skill set. But this is not the first time NATO has had to adapt to changing security challenges.

01.58 – Linas Linkevičius – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania

If we have no experts, we should have some experts. It’s no excuse. I remember when I spent my time in NATO, it was very interesting. We found out that nobody speaks Arabic within NATO. Now that’s no longer the case, but now suddenly, why? Because never before it was needed, but now it is needed.

02.17 – Voice-over – Paul King – Editor, NATO Review

And finally, there can be little doubt that energy can have a major impact on rebalancing relations with Russia.

02.24 - Marc Jacobson – Adjunct Professor, The George Washington University, US

Energy security and economic stability limit Russian freedom of action more so than any sort of direct military to military balance.

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What do the changes to the energy landscape following the Ukraine crisis mean for NATO? How does the organization need to change to better face energy challenges? We ask some top commentators and politicians what kind of changes they feel should be made.

00.11 – Voice-over – Paul King – Editor, NATO Review

In a globalized world no man is an island. Some 50 per cent of the EU’s gas imports from Russia still pass through Ukraine and these imports have already been interrupted twice before, in 2006 and 2009. Following the Ukraine crisis, there are fears that Europe’s energy security may be vulnerable once again.

00.32- Liam Fox – Former UK Secretary of Defence

In globalization, our interdependence means that we cannot be isolated from instability in any one part of the world. Ukraine is a very obvious example of that now, but we had that with 9/11, we had it with things like the SARS outbreak. We’re a much more interdependent world.

00.51 – Voice-over – Paul King – Editor, NATO Review

But energy movements are decided largely by private companies in commercial deals, at least in the West. So what role can an international organisation like NATO play?

01.01 – Amb. Kurt Volker – Former US ambassador to NATO

Energy security is not something that NATO would sell or control. It is again, national decisions, economic decisions, infrastructure decisions, European Union level decisions… But it can be a forum for consultation, for places where countries such as the Baltic States can raise concerns with other allies, and that we can talk about the implications of the dependencies that exist and the need for addressing them and also how we can share pain.

01.28 – Marc Jacobson – Adjunct Professor, The George Washington University, US

I think there is also a real case to be made that NATO needs to recast the role it originally envisaged in 1949. By this I mean inclusion of other ministries during North Atlantic Council sessions, for example Ministers of Finance. And this is representative of the more holistic challenges the world faces today.

01.49 – Voice-over – Paul King – Editor, NATO Review

This adaptation will require a new skill set. But this is not the first time NATO has had to adapt to changing security challenges.

01.58 – Linas Linkevičius – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania

If we have no experts, we should have some experts. It’s no excuse. I remember when I spent my time in NATO, it was very interesting. We found out that nobody speaks Arabic within NATO. Now that’s no longer the case, but now suddenly, why? Because never before it was needed, but now it is needed.

02.17 – Voice-over – Paul King – Editor, NATO Review

And finally, there can be little doubt that energy can have a major impact on rebalancing relations with Russia.

02.24 - Marc Jacobson – Adjunct Professor, The George Washington University, US

Energy security and economic stability limit Russian freedom of action more so than any sort of direct military to military balance.

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Getting a new defense product to market takes up to 10 years. So what do industry leaders feel we should be worrying about now? We ask six senior company representatives to reveal where they see the biggest threats developing.

00.06 – Voice-over – Paul King – Editor, NATO Review

NATO Review asked representatives of six leading defense companies what they think will be the biggest threats in the next 10 years. Here we present their answers.

00.17 – Jeff Kohler – Vice President, International Business Development, Boeing

I don’t think we still understand critical infrastructure protection and how cyber can affect that. As we sit here right at the entrance of the Bosporus and you just look at all the shipping that’s going through, it wouldn’t take much to distort, to disrupt the flow of that, causing confusion and who is going which way and so forth. So, this is a serious threat we have to pay attention to. I think, again from my commercial aircraft’s side, we’re very concerned about it. As commercial airplanes become more and more digital and electronic, we have actually started to put cyber protection into the software of our commercial airplanes. Because if you think about it, as they enter an airport environment, they’re starting to exchange information. And so we have to able to protect the aircraft software itself. So, there are a lot of issues coming down the road, just on cyber alone.

01.16 – Martin Hill – Vice President Defense, EU and NATO affairs, Thales

For me… cyber. The new global commons is cyber, the network. Every single item that we have depends on cyber. The timing signals from Satnav fundamentally define every single financial transaction… All of our critical infrastructure is controlled by some sort of network. This is the… has to be the area where we’re going to face problems. And we’re going to have to spend a fortune actually.

01.53 – David Perry – Corporate Vice President, Northrop Grumman

There will be a massive shift towards unmanned systems, not just aircraft, but unmanned systems. There will be a massive increase in interoperability, in interconnectedness of those systems as they are deployed around the world. And many have called that the ‘Internet of things’. So, just about every tangible device could be connected in some way, sharing information on the grid. Rather than just your smartphone, think of everything in your life being somehow enabled with some degree of connectivity.

02.29 – Steve Williams – Regional President for Continental Europe, Lockheed Martin

You’ll see more dual use. What used to be just looking for enemy targets, now can actually help you in some of our satellite constellations today, better understand the environment, looking towards the Arctic, where someone may have an issue and need combat search and rescue or better awareness. I think the tools for that are going to be far more heavily relied on, just as we do with our iPhone today. Ten years ago it was just a phone.

03.00 – Alberto de Benedictis – CEO, Finmeccanica UK

We’re looking at all those areas that allow smaller forces to be more effective anywhere a conflict is required. So, whether it’s commanding control, whether it’s joined ISTAR, whether it’s cyber, all those areas that quote unquote connect forces and allow them to multiply the capability, that’s, I think, one of the biggest focus areas.

03.33 – Håkan Buskhe – President and CEO, Saab

I think basically to fast reaction equipment, to have a good surveillance capability and possibility to move the right equipment to exact targeting will be the key going forward. And then of course it’s connected to information technology in many parts. And I think that’s probably the thing that will be moving ahead if we see the trends today. The problem with trends is that they will be interrupted by other things.

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Getting a new defense product to market takes up to 10 years. So what do industry leaders feel we should be worrying about now? We ask six senior company representatives to reveal where they see the biggest threats developing.

00.06 – Voice-over – Paul King – Editor, NATO Review

NATO Review asked representatives of six leading defense companies what they think will be the biggest threats in the next 10 years. Here we present their answers.

00.17 – Jeff Kohler – Vice President, International Business Development, Boeing

I don’t think we still understand critical infrastructure protection and how cyber can affect that. As we sit here right at the entrance of the Bosporus and you just look at all the shipping that’s going through, it wouldn’t take much to distort, to disrupt the flow of that, causing confusion and who is going which way and so forth. So, this is a serious threat we have to pay attention to. I think, again from my commercial aircraft’s side, we’re very concerned about it. As commercial airplanes become more and more digital and electronic, we have actually started to put cyber protection into the software of our commercial airplanes. Because if you think about it, as they enter an airport environment, they’re starting to exchange information. And so we have to able to protect the aircraft software itself. So, there are a lot of issues coming down the road, just on cyber alone.

01.16 – Martin Hill – Vice President Defense, EU and NATO affairs, Thales

For me… cyber. The new global commons is cyber, the network. Every single item that we have depends on cyber. The timing signals from Satnav fundamentally define every single financial transaction… All of our critical infrastructure is controlled by some sort of network. This is the… has to be the area where we’re going to face problems. And we’re going to have to spend a fortune actually.

01.53 – David Perry – Corporate Vice President, Northrop Grumman

There will be a massive shift towards unmanned systems, not just aircraft, but unmanned systems. There will be a massive increase in interoperability, in interconnectedness of those systems as they are deployed around the world. And many have called that the ‘Internet of things’. So, just about every tangible device could be connected in some way, sharing information on the grid. Rather than just your smartphone, think of everything in your life being somehow enabled with some degree of connectivity.

02.29 – Steve Williams – Regional President for Continental Europe, Lockheed Martin

You’ll see more dual use. What used to be just looking for enemy targets, now can actually help you in some of our satellite constellations today, better understand the environment, looking towards the Arctic, where someone may have an issue and need combat search and rescue or better awareness. I think the tools for that are going to be far more heavily relied on, just as we do with our iPhone today. Ten years ago it was just a phone.

03.00 – Alberto de Benedictis – CEO, Finmeccanica UK

We’re looking at all those areas that allow smaller forces to be more effective anywhere a conflict is required. So, whether it’s commanding control, whether it’s joined ISTAR, whether it’s cyber, all those areas that quote unquote connect forces and allow them to multiply the capability, that’s, I think, one of the biggest focus areas.

03.33 – Håkan Buskhe – President and CEO, Saab

I think basically to fast reaction equipment, to have a good surveillance capability and possibility to move the right equipment to exact targeting will be the key going forward. And then of course it’s connected to information technology in many parts. And I think that’s probably the thing that will be moving ahead if we see the trends today. The problem with trends is that they will be interrupted by other things.

NATO Review

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The opinions expressed in NATO Review do not necessarily reflect those of NATO or its member countries.

This video contains footage from ITN. While this video may be reproduced and used in its entirety, ITN footage cannot be used as part of a new production.

Lord Robertson was the NATO Secretary General on 9/11. He is the only Secretary General to have ever invoked the Alliance's Article 5. NATO Review asked him for a review of how the Alliance has done in its first 65 years - and whether it will make another 65.

00.08: What has NATO learned from recent events in Ukraine?

00.12 – Lord Robertson – Former NATO Secretary General

It was perfectly foreseeable that the Ukrainian crisis was going to come. We have to start inventing the wheel every time something comes along. We went through the cold war, we went through Bosnia, then we went through Kosovo, then we had a crisis in Macedonia, then we had Afghanistan. In each case we produced voluminous lessons learned. And we put them on the shelf and each time something came along, we started from square one.

00.41: Is NATO still too dependent on the US?

00.45– Lord Robertson – Former NATO Secretary General

I think there are some people who live with delusion that if the challenge comes in the future in the security world, then essentially the Americans will be there. The Europeans better abandon the delusion that they’ll always be there because they might not, and that there will be circumstances where they certainly will not. So they’ve got to make the capacities and the thinking and the strategies that encompass a very new world where they’re going to have to show much bigger responsibilities then they were willing to do in the past.

01.24: What does this mean for defence budgets?

01.28 – Lord Robertson – Former NATO Secretary General

There’s a huge problem about declining defence budgets. You either make the case or you lose the cash. And what you do with the cash is also important because the public are increasingly frustrated by the desire for capabilities that don’t arrive or are flawed, overtime, over cost… So we’ve got to be more prudent with how we buy things. They’re being bought for yesterday’s enemies and not tomorrow’s threats.

02.00 - What are these new threats?

02.04 – Lord Robertson – Former NATO Secretary General

I went to speak to a local Rotary Club, in my own locality recently. So I outlined to them my catalogue of current threats: cyber, terrorism, extremism, failed states etcetera. And you know, they were sort of saying: You are getting us depressed.

I said: Well, if you look at it all, this catalogue of problems that are out there, each one of which can suddenly erupt upon us just as the events of the last weeks have done, yes, you can get depressed, but there is an answer and that is good, robust defence capabilities.

02.42: How confident are you in NATO’s capabilities today?

02.46 – Lord Robertson – Former NATO Secretary General

So when I came to NATO headquarters in October of 1999 I said my three priorities were capabilities, capabilities, capabilities… Well, if I was arriving now, and somebody will be by the end of the year, it’s exactly the same. I hate to say that maybe it will take another crisis for people to start thinking soberly and sensibly of what is needed and often that’s maybe the only way that you get the politicians and the Alliance to think about it properly, but without them, you know, we in general, never mind NATO in particular, are not going to be equipped to make our populations as safe as they think they are.

03.30: Following Ukraine’s crisis, what’s NATO’s role?

03.34 – Lord Robertson – Former NATO Secretary General

One of the great dangers of this present crisis is that NATO goes back to the idea of territorial defence. That’s of course essential, but it’s not NATO’s future. NATO’s future is dealing with the broad range of challenges that we’re going to face in the future, whether that is terrorism or resource conflicts or climate change and cyber warfare, you know, all of these different things that are now facing the world, they will not make people safer.

04.09: Will NATO still exist in another 65 years?

04.13 – Lord Robertson – Former NATO Secretary General

I absolutely believe that NATO will be around in 65 years’ time because it’ll still be necessary. The problems, the threats, the challenges, both in security and the wider political context, won’t have gone away. So, that kind of organisation will be required in the future and that has been hugely successful in stopping Stalin, stopping the bloodbath in the Balkans, you know, stabilising Afghanistan…

04.42: What will future NATO look like?

04.45 – Lord Robertson – Former NATO Secretary General

It’ll be a bigger NATO in the future. I hope just as effective, but it’s going to have to encompass people at the moment who themselves don’t think they want to be part of NATO, but whose people will eventually say: That’s the way. We’ll have a safer country and a safer world as well.

There’s no security in Europe, unless there’s an eventual perspective of an organisation that says: We stand for values, stand for liberal values, and that has to include Russia, whether under the present leadership or a future leadership, because the previous leadership, when president Putin was first president, believed in exactly that objective. And I think that’s what we’ve got to aim for. So, yeah, in 65 years time somebody, not me, will be saying: What about the next 65 years?

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The opinions expressed in NATO Review do not necessarily reflect those of NATO or its member countries.

This video contains footage from ITN. While this video may be reproduced and used in its entirety, ITN footage cannot be used as part of a new production.

Lord Robertson was the NATO Secretary General on 9/11. He is the only Secretary General to have ever invoked the Alliance's Article 5. NATO Review asked him for a review of how the Alliance has done in its first 65 years - and whether it will make another 65.

00.08: What has NATO learned from recent events in Ukraine?

00.12 – Lord Robertson – Former NATO Secretary General

It was perfectly foreseeable that the Ukrainian crisis was going to come. We have to start inventing the wheel every time something comes along. We went through the cold war, we went through Bosnia, then we went through Kosovo, then we had a crisis in Macedonia, then we had Afghanistan. In each case we produced voluminous lessons learned. And we put them on the shelf and each time something came along, we started from square one.

00.41: Is NATO still too dependent on the US?

00.45– Lord Robertson – Former NATO Secretary General

I think there are some people who live with delusion that if the challenge comes in the future in the security world, then essentially the Americans will be there. The Europeans better abandon the delusion that they’ll always be there because they might not, and that there will be circumstances where they certainly will not. So they’ve got to make the capacities and the thinking and the strategies that encompass a very new world where they’re going to have to show much bigger responsibilities then they were willing to do in the past.

01.24: What does this mean for defence budgets?

01.28 – Lord Robertson – Former NATO Secretary General

There’s a huge problem about declining defence budgets. You either make the case or you lose the cash. And what you do with the cash is also important because the public are increasingly frustrated by the desire for capabilities that don’t arrive or are flawed, overtime, over cost… So we’ve got to be more prudent with how we buy things. They’re being bought for yesterday’s enemies and not tomorrow’s threats.

02.00 - What are these new threats?

02.04 – Lord Robertson – Former NATO Secretary General

I went to speak to a local Rotary Club, in my own locality recently. So I outlined to them my catalogue of current threats: cyber, terrorism, extremism, failed states etcetera. And you know, they were sort of saying: You are getting us depressed.

I said: Well, if you look at it all, this catalogue of problems that are out there, each one of which can suddenly erupt upon us just as the events of the last weeks have done, yes, you can get depressed, but there is an answer and that is good, robust defence capabilities.

02.42: How confident are you in NATO’s capabilities today?

02.46 – Lord Robertson – Former NATO Secretary General

So when I came to NATO headquarters in October of 1999 I said my three priorities were capabilities, capabilities, capabilities… Well, if I was arriving now, and somebody will be by the end of the year, it’s exactly the same. I hate to say that maybe it will take another crisis for people to start thinking soberly and sensibly of what is needed and often that’s maybe the only way that you get the politicians and the Alliance to think about it properly, but without them, you know, we in general, never mind NATO in particular, are not going to be equipped to make our populations as safe as they think they are.

03.30: Following Ukraine’s crisis, what’s NATO’s role?

03.34 – Lord Robertson – Former NATO Secretary General

One of the great dangers of this present crisis is that NATO goes back to the idea of territorial defence. That’s of course essential, but it’s not NATO’s future. NATO’s future is dealing with the broad range of challenges that we’re going to face in the future, whether that is terrorism or resource conflicts or climate change and cyber warfare, you know, all of these different things that are now facing the world, they will not make people safer.

04.09: Will NATO still exist in another 65 years?

04.13 – Lord Robertson – Former NATO Secretary General

I absolutely believe that NATO will be around in 65 years’ time because it’ll still be necessary. The problems, the threats, the challenges, both in security and the wider political context, won’t have gone away. So, that kind of organisation will be required in the future and that has been hugely successful in stopping Stalin, stopping the bloodbath in the Balkans, you know, stabilising Afghanistan…

04.42: What will future NATO look like?

04.45 – Lord Robertson – Former NATO Secretary General

It’ll be a bigger NATO in the future. I hope just as effective, but it’s going to have to encompass people at the moment who themselves don’t think they want to be part of NATO, but whose people will eventually say: That’s the way. We’ll have a safer country and a safer world as well.

There’s no security in Europe, unless there’s an eventual perspective of an organisation that says: We stand for values, stand for liberal values, and that has to include Russia, whether under the present leadership or a future leadership, because the previous leadership, when president Putin was first president, believed in exactly that objective. And I think that’s what we’ve got to aim for. So, yeah, in 65 years time somebody, not me, will be saying: What about the next 65 years?

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00.06 – 01.39: images of NATO’s 65 years (1949 – 2014)

01.46: Defending your freedom to party, to protest, to be

01.53: since 1949

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Artist: Fire & Ice

Title: Out Of Darkness

Mix: Original Mix

Written & Produced by L. Vee & Jurgen Leyers – Published by Bonzai Music

Division (adm. by High Fashion Music) Belgium Licensed from XTC – Music

For the Mind P & C 2003 – Backcatalogue BVBA, Belgium

ISRC: BEZ450111023

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00.06 – 01.39: images of NATO’s 65 years (1949 – 2014)

01.46: Defending your freedom to party, to protest, to be

01.53: since 1949

NATO Review

www.nato.int/review

The opinions expressed in NATO Review do not necessarily reflect those of NATO or its member countries.

Artist: Fire & Ice

Title: Out Of Darkness

Mix: Original Mix

Written & Produced by L. Vee & Jurgen Leyers – Published by Bonzai Music

Division (adm. by High Fashion Music) Belgium Licensed from XTC – Music

For the Mind P & C 2003 – Backcatalogue BVBA, Belgium

ISRC: BEZ450111023

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Countries have increased their links in a smaller, globalised world. But reactions to Russia's actions in Ukraine mean that a brake has to be put on some of this interlinking. Has globalisation made it easier or more difficult to react? Has it made it impossible to punish Russia without suffering pain at home? And where next for the sanctions and counter-sanctions?

00.09 - Paul King – Editor, NATO Review – voice-over

Globalisation has made all of our lives more dependent on each other. As barriers fall and unions are built, the idea is that all of us stand to lose more in conflicts in a globalised world. But will this idea prove true in dealing with Russia’s activities in Ukraine?

00.27 – Liam Fox – Former UK Secretary of Defence

The great upside of globalisation should be that greater interdependence economically and should make countries less willing to be aggressive, but it is of course based on the fundamental premise that all countries are equally rational.

00.45 – Alex Petriashvili – State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration

Europe is opening borders and giving the opportunities to build bridges. As we see, the Russian Federation is trying to build new fences, new barbed wires on our territory. It is time to build bridges and to forget about the fences.

01.05 - Paul King – voice-over

But globalisation does not automatically lead to peace, either today or in previous examples of close relationships.

01.15 – Prof Julian Lindley-French – Director, Europa Analytica

Well this is not the first age of globalisation, the 19th century was. A hundred years ago there were many, even at this late date before the outbreak of World War I, who said: We are not going to war because we’re too economically interdependent.

01.26 – Rob De Wijk – Founder Hague Centre for Strategic Studies

Globalisation is going on for decades. It’s not something new. No, what is new, is the shift in balance of power in the world and the shifting centre of gravity, the economic shifting of gravity; and consequently the political centre of gravity, which is shifting to the East. What’s happening at the Crimea is very comparable to what’s happening right now in the South-China Sea.

01.58 - Paul King – voice-over

So, globalisation has spawned its own conflicts, not got rid of them. And security has become even more important for the economic development that globalisation is supposed to bring.

02.09 – Ten Jianqun – Director, China Institute of International Studies, Beijing

In recent years the South-China Sea has become a hot spot. The security, you know, should be two sides of one coin: one economy, another is security.

02.21 - Paul King – voice-over

And it’s not just conflicts, which highlight the changing landscape. Where security forces are positioned is also part of the shifting sands.

02.31 – Ten Jianqun – Director, China Institute of International Studies, Beijing

I think China is the largest contributor among P5 in peacekeeping troops in Africa.

02.40 - Paul King – voice-over

Using economics as a weapon can hurt in a globalised world, but this is no guarantee that it will have the desired effect.

02.48 – Prof Julian Lindley-French – Director, Europa Analytica

Yes, economic sanctions, economic penalties, costs rather than benefits for inappropriate action… They are calculated as part of the broad remit of choices that a state makes. But if a state or a regime becomes sufficiently committed to a cause of action for reasons that may not be immediately apparent to those outside of that state, then no amount of economic sanction will actually work if that state or regime believes it’s fundamental to its very survival.

03.23 - Paul King – voice-over

And finally, it’s ironically probably the national, not the international, globalised audiences that matter most in the recent moves by President Putin.

03.34 – Konstantin von Eggert – Kommersant FM Radio, Editor in Chief

We somehow forgot that there is a huge domestic angle to all these things. It is about Putin’s new legitimacy. Yes, he’s officially president, but he’s in fact a national leader who does not just ensure economic stability. Actually, that’s probably not as important to him as it used to be in his first presidential term, but more about him giving Russia a new face, a new spring in Russia’s step and a new image for himself.

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