Category: NATOSource

NATO strikes transport deals to skirt Pakistan

By Slobodan Lekic, the AP

From Slobodan Lekic, the AP:  NATO has concluded agreements with Central Asian nations allowing it to evacuate vehicles and other military equipment from Afghanistan and completely bypass Pakistan, which once provided the main supply route for coalition forces.

Britain fears NATO military gaps after US shift to Asia

By NewsCore

How deep is the partisan divide over multilateralism in U.S. foreign policy?

By Joshua W. Busby, Jonathan Monten, and William Inboden, Foreign Affairs

From Joshua W. Busby, Jonathan Monten, and William Inboden, Foreign Affairs: [H]ow deep is the partisan divide over the place of multilateralism in U.S. foreign policy?

Cartwright: “We built the F-35 with absolutely no protection for it from a cyber standpoint”

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., AOL Defense

From Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., AOL Defense:  [Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff James] Cartwright fears the Pentagon’s most expensive program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, might prove to be as vulnerable to enemy hackers as the old under-armored Humvees were to roadside bombs.

Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

By David E. Sanger, the New York Times

From David E. Sanger, the New York Times:  From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities

Serbs clash with NATO troops in northern Kosovo

By Deutsche Welle

From Deutsche Welle:  Serbs clashed with NATO troops in northern Kosovo on Friday after they moved in to try to take down a roadblock.

US envoy to NATO: Alliance lacks ‘sound legal basis’ for Syria intervention

By Geneva Sands, the Hill

From Geneva Sands, the Hill:  The U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder said the military alliance lacks two key mandates that would allow it to intervene in Syria to stop violence between President Bashar al-Assad and opposition forces.

Retired Russian colonel convicted of spying for US

By the AP

From the AP:  A retired Russian military officer has been convicted on charges of spying for the U.S. and sentenced to 12 years in prison, the counterintelligence agency said Thursday

The Case Against Intervention in Syria

By Fareed Zakaria, TIME

From Fareed Zakaria, TIME:  In Syria, the brutal regime of Bashar Assad is testing the proposition that repression works.