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NATO secretary general: strong alliance needed to secure better ties with Russia

Posted: October 28, 2014 at 11:58 am

Published October 28, 2014

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a policy speech entitled "A unique Alliance with a clear course" at an event hosted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in Brussels on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)(The Associated Press)

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a policy speech entitled "A unique Alliance with a clear course" at an event hosted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in Brussels on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)(The Associated Press)

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a policy speech entitled "A unique Alliance with a clear course" at an event hosted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in Brussels on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)(The Associated Press)

BRUSSELS NATO's new secretary general says only a strong Western alliance can negotiate better ties with Russia.

Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that his experience as Norway's prime minister was that robust defense capabilities and a strong trans-Atlantic bond were fundamental to bring about constructive relations with Russia.

In his first policy speech since taking office Oct. 1, Stoltenberg said there was no contradiction between wanting to keep NATO strong and continuing to attempt to engage with the leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"NATO is here to say. Russia is here to say. So we're going to have some kind of relationship," Stoltenberg said. The question, he said, is "what kind."

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New NATO chief plots course for 28-nation military pact

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STUTTGART, Germany As NATOs first secretary-general to hail from a country that shares a border with Russia, Jens Stoltenberg says todays tensions with Moscow conjure memories from a Cold War childhood when NATO was there to protect us.

I remember visiting that border when it was completely closed back in the days of the Soviet Union. When looking across was like staring into something dark and scary, Stoltenberg, a former Norwegian prime minister now heading up the 28-nation alliance, said on Tuesday.

Nowadays, there is a visa-free zone between Norway and Russia, where hundreds of thousands of people cross the border each year. But Russias moves around Ukraine during the past year have threatened such progress and brought about echoes from the past, which NATO must be prepared to counter, Stoltenberg said during a speech at the German Marshall Fund in Brussels.

NATOs new top official laid out his priorities during his first major policy speech since assuming leadership of the 28-nation alliance earlier this month. Stoltenberg took up his post from Anders Fogh Rasmussen, his predecessor as the military alliances secretary-general who had been criticized by some NATO allies for his sharp comments about Moscows policies in Ukraine.

Much of Stoltenbergs speech also focused on Russia.

NATO does not seek confrontation with Russia. And nobody wants a new Cold War, 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, he said. But we cannot and will not compromise on the principles on which our alliance and the security of Europe and North America rest. This is my firm conviction.

Going forward, Stoltenberg said his main goals will be pushing forward with a new action plan that aims to elevate NATOs overall state of readiness through the placement of equipment at strategic staging bases in eastern Europe, a new rapid-reaction force and a heightened presence of rotational forces on NATOs eastern frontier.

This is the biggest reinforcement of our collective defense since the end of the Cold War, Stoltenberg said. We are making our forces more agile. And able to deploy quickly whenever threats emerge. From any direction.

The size and shape of NATOs new spearhead reaction force, expected to be around 4,000 troops, will be decided when defense ministers meet in February.

At the same time, Stoltenberg struck a more conciliatory and diplomatic tone than Rasmussen, emphasizing the need to find ways to work with Moscow.

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NATO''s New Head Seeks Cooperation With Russia

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By Dow Jones Business News, October 28, 2014, 07:35:00 AM EDT

BRUSSELS--The new civilian head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said the alliance sought a cooperative relationship with Russia, and said the best way to achieve that was to ensure NATO remained strong.

In his first major policy speech since assuming the role of NATO secretary-general on Oct. 1, Jens Stoltenberg said Russia was NATO's biggest neighbor and both were here to stay.

"We simply can't ignore each other. One way or another, we will have a relationship. The question is what kind of relationship," he said.

"NATO continues to aspire to a cooperative relationship with Russia but to get there Russia would need to want it and to take clear steps to make it possible."

He said the relationship needed to have "greater transparency and predictability" to "make sure that crises don't spiral out of control."

Mr. Stoltenberg, a former Norwegian prime minister, said the opening of Norway's formerly closed border with the Soviet Union had benefited Russians. Russians had gained from the freedom and prosperity that had come from open borders and integration with the rest of the world.

The speech, which followed a fiery condemnation of NATO and U.S. actions last week from Russian President Vladimir Putin, was less combative toward Moscow than statements from Mr. Stoltenberg's predecessor, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

But Mr. Stoltenberg said Russia's actions in Ukraine had severely damaged trust with Moscow and posed a major challenge to alliance security.

NATO needed to remain strong, he said.

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NSA Ajit Doval to seek strengthening of security along Indo-Bangladesh border – Video

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Startup Fights Fraud With Tools From Facebook, NSA

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Tom Ryan wanted to build something that could identify criminal behavior inside massive mobile networks, stock trading services, ecommerce sites, and other online operations. So he turned to a pair of familiar names for help: Facebook and the NSA.

He didnt exactly knock on Facebooks front doorlet alone the NSAs. But he did adopt a pair of sweeping software systems built by these giants of the online age, systems that help them juggle the massive amounts of digital information streaming into their computer data centers.

Ryan grabbed an NSA tool called Accumulo, which likely plays a key role in the agencys notoriously widespread efforts to monitor internet traffic in the name of national security, and he paired it with a Facebook tool called Presto, used to quickly analyze the way people, ads, and all sorts of other things behave on the worlds largest social network. Both Facebook and the NSA, you see, have open sourced their software, meaning these tools are freely available to the world at large.

Ryan is the CEO of a small Silicon Valley startup called Argyle Data. Over the past sixteen months, he and his engineering team used Accumulo and Presto to fashion software that can root out fraud inside todays massive online operations, and theyve already deployed the thing with at least a few companies, including Vodafone, the British telecommunications giant that runs mobile phone networks across Europe.

Argyle is a nicely rounded metaphor for the recent evolution of the data-juggling technologies that drive our modern businesses. Over the past several years, massive web companies such as Google and Facebookas well as similarly ambitious operations like the NSAhave built a new breed of software that can store and analyze data across tens, hundreds, and even thousands of machines, and now, these software tools are trickling down to the rest of the business world. As a startup, Ryan says, you want to build on whats new, not whats old.

The poster child for this movement is a software system called Hadoop, which was inspired by work originally done at Google. But Hadoopat least as it was originally conceivedis now giving way to tools that operate at much faster speeds. Hadoop is a batch system, meaning you assign it a task and then wait a good while for the answer to come back. Newer systems are much better at operating at speed.

Argyles software is a prime example. Using machine learning and whats called deep packet inspection, it analyzes the individual packets of data that stream across a network, and if a piece of data meets certain criteriai.e. sets off certain flagsit gets shuttled into Accumulo, a massive database that can extend across myriad machines. It helps us scan tens of millions to hundreds of millions of transactions a second, Ryan says. Companies can then use a version of Presto to further analyze this data, executing specific queries in near real-time.

Christopher Nguyen, the CEO of a data analysis startup called Adatao who once worked with similar big data software inside Google, says that Arygles method isnt necessarily the best way to analyze such massive amounts of information at speed. But he agrees that this is part of a much much larger movement towards real-time big data tools, tools that also include something called Spark, developed at the University of California at Berkeley, and various other software contraptions.

At the same time, Argyles story underlines another aspect of this movement. At the NSA, you see, Accumulo is likely part of a surveillance effort that underpins our online privacy, and as the tools like this make it easier to collect and analyze such enormous amounts data, they may help push us towards a world where privacy is eroded even further. Vodafone, after all, is using Argyles software to closely analyze data streaming across European wireless networks used by the general public.

According to Seth Schoen, a staff technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, laws typically allow companies to use tools along the lines of Argyleincluding deep packet inspectionto do things like fight fraud. But in the end, their affect on privacy boils down to the policy of each individual company. The good news with Argyle, as Ryan points out, is that the NSA built Accumulo so that organizations can closely control who, within their operation, has access to each individual piece of data. Its a trade off, Ryan says. Privacy is so important. But with more data-enrichment, you can improve the results of your analytics.

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