Category: NATOSource

Russia Warns of ‘Technical Response’ to NATO Missile Plans

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Russia may deliver a "technical response" to NATO over its plans to deploy a European missile defense program, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Thursday.

Canada doubles spending on cyber security

By Canada's Ministry of Public Safety

From Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety:  The Honourable Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety, today announced funding to further implement Canada’s Cyber Security Strategy and strengthen Canada’s efforts to achieve a secure, stable, and resilient digital infrastructure.

NATO Secretary General to industry: Smart Defense or ‘no contract at all’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  At Chicago we also embraced the concept of Smart Defence. This is all about multinational cooperation. Allies working together to deliver capabilities that would be too expensive for any of them to deliver alone.

Obama administration divided over ‘openly admitting that the United States has deployed a new cyber weapon’

By Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger, New York Times

From Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger, New York Times:  In advance of Mr. [Secretary of Defense Leon] Panetta’s speech in New York on Thursday, senior officials debated how much to talk about the United States’s offensive capabilities, assessing whether such an acknowledgment could help create a deterrent for countries contemplating attacks on the country.

U.S. suspects Iran behind wave of cyberattacks

By Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger, New York Times

From Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger, New York Times:  American intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that Iran was the origin of a serious wave of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached financial institutions in the United States

Swiss army prepares for euro unrest

By Valentina Pop, EUobserver

From Valentina Pop, EUobserver:  The Swiss army is preparing for possible internal civil unrest as well as waves of refugees from euro-countries as the economic crisis drags on.

Russia to boost defense spending 59% by 2015

By RIA Novosti

Number of Syrian refugees crosses Turkey’s red line for creating buffer zone in Syria

By Today's Zaman

From Today’s Zaman:  The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has now exceeded 100,000, a level that Turkey said could trigger actions such as the creation of a buffer zone because it would struggle to accommodate more than 100,000 refugees.

Don’t Forget NATO

By James Goldgeier, International Herald Tribune

From James Goldgeier, International Herald Tribune:  In awarding this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union, the Nobel committee quite rightly noted the E.U.’s critical role in Europe’s transformation “from a Continent of war to a Continent of peace.”

Rebel Arms Flow Is Said to Benefit Jihadists in Syria

By David E. Sanger, New York Times

From David E. Sanger, New York Times:  Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster