NATO Expansion: Is Bigger Better?
Warfare
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4.5 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
NATO is expanding and enlarging. With the number of rapid response troops set to increase to 300,000, and Sweden & Finland in line to gain membership, the organisation has truly awoken to the evolving threat posed by Russia.
In this episode James is joined by Dr Sten Rynning from the University of Southern Denmark to examine the full history of NATO to see when it has expanded and enlarged before.
Follow Sten on Twitter at @stenrynning and keep an eye out for his book in late 2022/early 2023.
This episode was edited by Annie Coloe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to the warfare podcast I'm your host James Rogers and all this week I'm with the Waterloo uncovered team at the Waterloo battlefield |
| 0:07.8 | I'm standing there right now they've handed me a metal detector and we're finding everything from musket balls to bits of howitz us and they've even found cannonballs here before. |
| 0:17.0 | What the team is doing is truly remarkable. They're adding a whole new layer to the history of the Battle of Waterloo. |
| 0:23.4 | In fact it's so impressive that we're going to hold a special exclusive dedicated |
| 0:28.4 | episode here on the warfare podcast on Wednesday at midday. |
| 0:32.1 | So make sure you tune in on Wednesday at midday at midday 12 o'clock UK time to the warfare |
| 0:37.5 | podcast and believe me it's worth it there's quite the exclusive. Now today we're talking about a very different part of history. |
| 0:45.0 | We're talking about NATO. |
| 0:46.6 | And the reason why is because NATO is expanding and enlarging. |
| 0:50.4 | It has potentially two new members, Sweden and Finland, who are joining in the face of renewed Russian aggression. |
| 0:56.5 | And it is having a whole range of new forces coming up as part of a rapid response force growing up to 300,000 troops. |
| 1:05.5 | So the question is, what does this mean in terms of the full history of NATO? |
| 1:09.8 | When has NATO expanded and enlarged before. |
| 1:13.1 | To help us understand this, we have my good friend, Professor Sten Rooning, on the podcast. |
| 1:18.3 | Sten is Professor of International Security at SDU in Denmark, and he is the author of a forthcoming book |
| 1:23.8 | to mark the 75th anniversary of NATO |
| 1:26.1 | with Yale University Press. |
| 1:28.2 | Stent is the world expert who helps us understand |
| 1:31.2 | when and why NATO has expanded and enlarged previously in history |
| 1:36.3 | and why what is happening now is so important. So here is Stenrooning on NATO expansion and enlargement. Enjoy. Hi Stan, welcome to the Warfare Podcast. How you doing? |
| 1:53.0 | Thank you, James, I'm doing good and thank you for having. Hi Stan, welcome to the Warfare Podcast. How you doing? |
| 2:03.0 | Thank you, James, I'm doing good and thank you for having me. |
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