Warsaw, Poland Montenegro will join NATO shortly, as soon as the 28 member nations ratify the decision, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said last week. He emphasized that “the door is open” to new membership, and no nation outside the alliance has any veto power over its expansion. Georgia, too, is checking off the requirements to join, and a senior NATO official, in a press backgrounder, said that even though prospective NATO members are supposed to have their national house in order, with no pending conflicts, Georgia’s problems with Russia don’t negate its candidacy. The conflict over Ossetia could be construed as a tactic by Russia to invalidate Georgia’s NATO application, and it won’t work, the official said.
NASA Boss: Race to Moon Has National Security Stakes
Sept. 15, 2026
NASA is pushing hard to get astronauts back to the moon by 2028—and the urgency is driven in no small part by the national security implications of doing so before China does, Administrator Jared Isaacman said Sept. 15.
