Atlantic Council blogs

NATO offers missile defense cooperation to India

By the Times of India

From the Times of India:  In a move that holds great strategic significance, Nato has offered to share its missile defence technology with India to build its capability to shoot down incoming enemy missiles, realising the commonality of threats faced by the 28-nation grouping and South Asia’s pre-eminent power.

SecGen says NATO must address weaknesses exposed by Libya

By David Brunnstrom, Reuters

From David Brunnstrom, Reuters:  NATO may have managed to do its job in Libya but the operation there has exposed weaknesses in capabilities of non-U.S. allies that need to be addressed, the head of NATO said on Monday.

Cameron on Libya: “We are ready to extend the NATO mandate for as long as is necessary”

By David Cameron, Office of the Prime Minister

Update: NATO activities in Libya on September 4

By NATO

Amid cuts, US military withdraws from Europe

By Michael Moran, the GlobalPost

From Michael Moran, the GlobalPost:  With little fanfare outside a muted flag folding ceremony in Wiesbaden, Germany, the final American division in Europe — the U.S. 1st Armored Division, which fought its way from North Africa to the Italian Alps during the war — packed up and left for its base at Fort Bliss, Texas, […]

Details of NATO-Libyan campaign to liberate Tripoli

By Nicolas Pelham, the New York Review of Books

From Nicolas Pelham, the New York Review of Books:  Hatched in capitals across Europe and the Arab world, as well as in rebel operation rooms secretly organized in Libya itself, the military campaign took four months of planning.

Libya’s Dark Lesson for NATO

By Steven Erlanger, the New York Times

From Steven Erlanger, the New York Times:  The war in Libya may be one of those quietly telling moments in the history of more important nations.

Update: NATO activities in Libya on September 3

By NATO

Letter From a Kiev Jail

By Yulia Tymoshenko and Hryhoriy Nemyria, the Wall Street Journal

EU offers to reform Libyan security forces

By AFP

From AFP:  The European Union is offering to help Libya’s rebels reform security forces after 42 years under a police state and collect weapons when the war ends, the EU’s chief diplomat said today.