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NATO Flash is a podcast from the NATO Defense College Foundation, in collaboration with the NATO Defense College, exploring the issues shaping Euro-Atlantic security today. Each episode brings together the...
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NATO Flash is a podcast from the NATO Defense College Foundation, in collaboration with the NATO Defense College, exploring the issues shaping Euro-Atlantic security today.
Each episode brings together the host, Director of the NATO Defense College Foundation Alessandro Politi, with leading policymakers, military professionals, journalists, and analysts for frank conversations on NATO, defence, deterrence, and geopolitics.
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Each episode brings together the host, Director of the NATO Defense College Foundation Alessandro Politi, with leading policymakers, military professionals, journalists, and analysts for frank conversations on NATO, defence, deterrence, and geopolitics.
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15 JUN 2026 · The first episode of NATO Flash goes straight to one of Europe's most overlooked fault lines: the Western Balkans. Gerald Knaus, founding chairman of the European Stability Initiative, and Michael Martens, Southeast Europe correspondent for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, join us to assess 25 years of post-war peace, the stalled EU enlargement process, Russia's hybrid playbook in the region, and what it would actually take to make borders irrelevant.
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4 SEP 2026 · In this episode of NATO Flash, part of the NATO Defense College Foundation's Africa 2026 series, host Alessandro Politi speaks with Patrick Smith, editor-in-chief of Africa Confidential and The Africa Report, about the deepening security crisis in the Horn of Africa.
Smith explains how disinformation and hybrid warfare have taken hold across the region, discusses the risk of renewed conflict between Ethiopia's federal government and Tigray, and examines the widening war in Sudan, including the siege of El Obeid.
The conversation also considers how the European Union and NATO might adapt their strategies as the Horn, the Red Sea and the Gulf increasingly form a single, interconnected security complex; and what role technology, training and intelligence-sharing could play in supporting the African Union.
An on-the-ground perspective on one of the world’s most globally influential yet least understood regions.
NATO Flash is a podcast from the NATO Defense College Foundation, in collaboration with the NATO Defense College, exploring the issues shaping Euro-Atlantic security today. Each episode brings together the...
show more
NATO Flash is a podcast from the NATO Defense College Foundation, in collaboration with the NATO Defense College, exploring the issues shaping Euro-Atlantic security today.
Each episode brings together the host, Director of the NATO Defense College Foundation Alessandro Politi, with leading policymakers, military professionals, journalists, and analysts for frank conversations on NATO, defence, deterrence, and geopolitics.
show less
Each episode brings together the host, Director of the NATO Defense College Foundation Alessandro Politi, with leading policymakers, military professionals, journalists, and analysts for frank conversations on NATO, defence, deterrence, and geopolitics.
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| Organization | NDCF |
| Categories | Politics , News Commentary |
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