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New Atlanticist

New Atlanticist is the Atlantic Council’s public policy blog. It seeks to provide expert analysis, accessible to a broad readership, on the most pressing issues facing the transatlantic community.

Inflection Points

A weekly column by Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick Kempe, Inflection Points focuses on the global challenges facing the United States and how to best address them.

UkraineAlert

UkraineAlert is a comprehensive online publication that provides regular news and analysis on developments in Ukraine’s politics, economy, civil society, and culture, with commentary drawn from a wide-array of thought-leaders, politicians, experts, and activists from Ukraine and the global community.

MENASource

The MENASource blog follows the transitions in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Syria, as well as other political and economic changes throughout the region. MENASource provides a platform for diverse perspectives from the US, Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa on major issues that are at stake in the post-Arab Spring era.

SyriaSource

SyriaSource, a project of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, amplifies Syrian voices, alongside Atlantic Council researchers and fellows, to showcase issues most pertinent to Syrians. The blog features news and analysis directly from Syrian sources as well as international experts.

IranSource

IranSource provides a holistic look at Iran’s internal dynamics, global and regional policies, and posture through unique analysis of current events and long-term, strategic issues related to Iran.

EnergySource

EnergySource provides analysis and insight on key energy issues, making sense of key energy trends and their implications for geopolitics, geoeconomics, policy, and markets.

AfricaSource

AfricaSource provides in-depth analysis and incisive commentary by the Africa Center’s experts on the people and events shaping the present and future of the world’s most dynamic regions.

Econographics

Econographics help visualize and contextualize the most important trends and developments in the global economy.

TURKEYSource

TURKEYSource provides analysis and insight on Turkey and related developments with coverage from Turkish, regional, and international experts. This blog offers timely news and commentary on key issues related to transatlantic relations, energy, business, migration, and key players.

SouthAsiaSource

SouthAsiaSource is the Atlantic Council’s premier publication for South Asian affairs, covering areas such as economics and trade, governance, education, climate and environmental issues, politics and diplomacy, migration, security, and other areas.

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New Atlanticist

Oct 20, 2011

Calculating the Costs of War

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

Leon E. Panetta’s first major address as defense secretary was clearly designed to be magisterial, the credo of the Free World, still headed by the United States, cognizant of its worldwide responsibilities, albeit with much budgetary belt-tightening. He didn’t mention the two wasteful wars that had little to do with defending Western civilization.

New Atlanticist

Oct 20, 2011

A Kingdom for a Strategy

By Harlan Ullman

Strategy and weather share a common limitation: People constantly talk about both yet, in today’s environment, little can be done to affect either. Above all, strategy is about setting achievable and understandable aims. Sadly, politics and process have made that impossible today. A bitterly divided Congress and the failure of the Obama administration through substituting […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Oct 20, 2011

Air Force merges two command and control units in Germany

By Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes

From Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes:  The Air Force has merged two command and control units at Ramstein Air Base, with the new combined unit overseeing all U.S. air operations in Europe and Africa.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Oct 20, 2011

NATO official provides more details of attack on convoy of Gaddafi loyalists near Sirte

By Meilssa Bell, the Washington Post

From Meilssa Bell, the Washington Post:  “We’ve had no confirmation whether Gaddafi was in there or not,” said a NATO official

NATOSource

Oct 20, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on October 19

By NATO

MENASource

Oct 20, 2011

Election Timeline

NATOSource

Oct 20, 2011

NATO confirms it hit military vehicles of Muammar Gaddafi loyalists near Sirte

By Christopher Gillette and Rami Al-Shaheibi, the AP

From Christopher Gillette and Rami Al-Shaheibi, the AP:  NATO confirms it hit a convoy of Moammar Gadhafi’s loyalists fleeing Sirte as the city fell Thursday, but there are conflicting reports whether the ousted Libyan leader was in the convoy or possibly killed or captured.

NATOSource

Oct 20, 2011

Gaddafi killed as Sirte falls to NTC forces

By Sitaraman Shankar, Rania El Gamal and Tim Gaynor, Reuters

From Sitaraman Shankar, Rania El Gamal and Tim Gaynor, Reuters:  Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya’s interim rulers said.

New Atlanticist

Oct 19, 2011

The Strategic Influence Game 3: The Loser

By Julian Lindley-French

Strategy is the art of gaining the greatest influence at least cost. For at least a generation the British elite have specialised in gaining the least influence at the greatest cost – be it in Europe, the transatlantic relationship or the wider world. Why? The factors are many but put simply Britain’s political elite have […]

United Kingdom

NATOSource

Oct 19, 2011

U.S. not sure Russia and NATO will reach agreement on missile defense before the Chicago summit

By Susan Cornwell and Jim Wolf, Reuters

From Susan Cornwell and Jim Wolf, Reuters:  The United States has invited Russia to use its own radars and other sensors to size up one or more U.S. missile-defense flight tests as part of a new push to persuade Moscow that the system poses it no threat, a Pentagon official said on Tuesday.

United States and Canada
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