Category: NATOSource

Czechs pressure Sweden on extending jet fighter lease

By Jan Lopatka, Reuters

From Jan Lopatka, Reuters:  The Czech government will start looking for a new provider of fighter jets unless Sweden improves its offer to extend a lease of its Gripen fighters now used by the air force, the Czech prime minister said on Wednesday.

Alleged Canadian spy caused ‘massive security breach’ of shared Western intelligence

By Philip Dorling, the Sydney Morning Herald

From Philip Dorling, the Sydney Morning Herald:  An alleged Canadian spy compromised Australian intelligence information in an espionage case that has sent shock waves through Western security agencies.

New EU mission to counter al Qaeda threat in Africa

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

From Adrian Croft, Reuters:  The European Union is to send experts to Niger to train its security forces to fight al Qaeda, signalling the depth of EU concern over the growing threat Islamist militancy poses to Africa’s Sahel region.

How Obama lost Europe

By Mark Leonard, Foreign Policy

From Mark Leonard, Foreign Policy:  [President Barack] Obama’s stellar personal ratings in Europe hide the fact that the Western alliance has never loomed smaller in the imagination of policymakers on either side of the Atlantic.

Ukraine’s Defense Minister: ‘We are ready to develop cooperation with NATO’

By the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

From the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine: Ukrainian Defense Minister Dmytro Salamatin met with General Richard Shirreff, the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, within an official visit of NATO delegation to Ukraine.

‘Organic jointness?’ NATO’s Connected Forces Initiative

By Julian Lindley–French, the New Atlanticist

From Julian Lindley–French, the New Atlanticist:  NATO must contend with two competing and contending inner-realities

Turkey begins work on ICBM

By the Hurriyet Daily News

From the Hurriyet Daily News:  The Turkish Armed Forces have begun working on a project to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), broadcaster NTV reported on its website today.

Diplomat: Russia stopped Assad from using chemical weapons two weeks ago

By Samia Nakhoul, Reuters

From Samia Nakhoul, Reuters:  Increasingly under pressure by rebels intent on unseating him, Bashar al-Assad has considered using chemical weapons against his enemies but Washington and Moscow have formed an unlikely alliance to force him to abandon such plans.

Russia warns Syria against using chemical weapons

By the AP