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Jan 30, 2013

Deputy Prime Minister: France sold Russia Mistral warships that ‘won’t work in cold’

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Two amphibious assault ships bought for the Russian Navy from France in a 1.2 billion euro deal will not be able to operate in temperatures below seven degrees centigrade, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin admitted on Saturday, in critical comments about the contract.

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Jan 30, 2013

Army Chief Gerasimov: Russia’s Forces Are Ready for War

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Russia’s armed forces are ready for a major war, Chief of the military’s General Staff Col. Gen. Valery Gerasimov said on Saturday.

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Jan 30, 2013

RAF assumes command of air component of the NATO Response Force

By Britain's Ministry of Defense

From Britain’s Ministry of Defense:  The current incumbents, the German Air Force, were represented by Brigadier General Nolte at a handover of the NRF lead duty to the RAF’s JFACC Air Commodore Martin Sampson at an official ceremony at HQ Air Command.

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Jan 30, 2013

Advisor: EU could deploy peace force in post-conflict Syria

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

From Adrian Croft, Reuters:  European Union planners are looking at ways to help stabilize Syria when the civil war is over, and sending an EU military force to keep the peace could be an option, the bloc’s top military officer said on Tuesday.

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Jan 29, 2013

Europe’s army?

By Paul Ames, Global Post

From Paul Ames, Global Post:  [T]here are few troops anywhere in the world better prepared for their task than the marines, foreign legionaries, and other elite French units rolling north to confront the Jihadist militants controlling much of Mali.

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Jan 29, 2013

Report: Pentagon planning new drone base in western Africa

By Robert Burns, AP

From Robert Burns, AP:  Plans to base unarmed American surveillance drones in the African nation of Niger highlight the Obama administration’s growing concern about extremist influences in the volatile region.

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Jan 29, 2013

NATO Crisis Management Center to be established in Bulgaria

By Novinite

From Novinite:  A NATO center for studying, creating, and perfecting the capacities of the Alliance in crisis management and disaster relief is to be set up in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Bulgarian Deputy Defense Minister Avgustina Tzvetkova announced Tuesday.

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Jan 29, 2013

Second set of NATO Patriot missiles in Turkey go active

By Reuters

From Reuters:  A second pair of Patriot missile batteries being sent by NATO countries to defend Turkey against possible attack from Syria are now operational, a German security official said on Tuesday.

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Jan 28, 2013

Mali and the demise of the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy

By Giovanni Faleg, Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

From Giovanni Faleg, Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS):  For those who believed that the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) was still in good shape after Libya and looked with hope at the new missions launched last summer in the Horn of Africa, South Sudan, and Niger, the unfortunate news is that the tide […]

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Jan 28, 2013

China’s growing interest in the Arctic ‘raises concern – even alarm – in the international community’

By Christoph Seidler, Spiegel

From Christoph Seidler, Spiegel:  You didn’t hear much Chinese spoken on the Mackenzie River until the summer of 1999

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