Category: NATOSource

NATO Members Spar over Post-Withdrawal Financing for Afghanistan

By Spiegel

From Spiegel:  After the almost total withdrawal of ISAF troops at the end of 2014, according to the strategy, NATO members don’t want to leave the country entirely to its own fate.

Turkey blocking Israel’s participation in NATO summit

By Celil Sagir, Zaman

Reports cast doubt on European missile defense

By Desmond Butler, AP

From Desmond Butler, AP:  Major delays, cost overruns and critical technological problems are plaguing a missile defense system designed to protect the United States and Europe from an Iranian attack

U.S. seeks more money from Germany for Afghanistan

By Spiegel

From Spiegel:  Currently, the Western allies are deadlocked in the search for sufficient post-withdrawal funding for Afghanistan. The US has committed to covering half of the €3.1 billion ($4 billion) per year necessary to equip and train Afghan security forces.

NATO Says India Poses No Missile Threat

By NATO

From NATO:  Excerpt from press conference by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen following the North Atlantic Council Meeting in Defence Ministers Session

Macedonia pushes NATO, EU membership

By Austin Wright, POLITICO

From Austin Wright, POLITICO:  Macedonia’s renewed push to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has drawn bipartisan support on Capitol Hill, but its decades-long dispute with Greece remains a stubborn impediment.

Does America Still Want to Lead the World?

By Fred Kempe, the New Atlanticist

From Fred Kempe, the New Atlanticist:  For all their bitter differences, President Obama and Governor Romney share one overwhelming challenge. Whoever is elected will face the growing reality that the greatest risk to global stability over the next 20 years may be the nature of America itself. Nothing – not Iranian or North Korean nuclear […]

Memo to NATO: Stay Out of Syrian Conflict

By Joshua Foust, the New Atlanticist

From Joshua Foust, the New Atlanticist:  This past week, however, firefights near Syria’s border with Turkey have raised the prospect of another way to intervene: NATO.

NATO’s ‘bleak future of military marginalization and trans-Atlantic rancor’

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times: [N]o matter how important the stakes, European militaries are unable to conduct sustained air operations on their own, even in their own neighborhood.

The Russians are coming to Chicago! (maybe)

After participating in today’s meeting of the NATO-Russia Council, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen disclosed for the first time