Category: NATOSource

Report: Russia deploys S-400 missiles near NATO border

By the AP

European Military Sales to Russia

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Russia to Get First 57 Italian Armored Vehicles in 2012

Number of jailed journalists nearly doubles in Turkey

By the Los Angeles Times

From the Los Angeles Times:  Turkey is jailing nearly twice as many journalists as a year ago, and sentencing them to as long as 166 years behind bars, according to a report from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Syria and the Decline of NATO Military Clout

By Erik Brattberg, World Policy Institute

From Erik Brattberg, World Policy Institute:  Despite calls on Capitol Hill for international intervention as the Syrian crisis, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has repeatedly ruled out the option of the Alliance involving itself in Syria, most recently at a conference in Brussels two weeks ago.

NATO nations must help restore order in Mali

By the Editors of the Washington Post

From the Editors of the Washington Post:  The United States and its NATO allies took a big risk in Libya last year — not by supporting the rebellion against dictator Moammar Gaddafi but by doing little to help the victorious rebels with security after the war.

Clinton outlines 3 primary NATO summit goals

By the AP

From the AP:  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined the goals of the upcoming NATO Summit during a speech in Virginia on Tuesday, saying the alliance would focus on defining the next phase of transition in Afghanistan.

Turkey has prepared plans for safe zones in Syria

By Nour Malas and Joe Parkinson, the Wall Street Journal

From Nour Malas and Joe Parkinson, the Wall Street Journal:  Turkey has drawn up plans for safe zones across its border in Syria to help absorb refugees and is preparing to take more aggressive steps to protect Syrian civilians in the case of a spike in violence

Scowcroft: NATO Future as UN Security Force

By James Joyner, the New Atlanticist

From James Joyner, the New Atlanticist:  General Brent Scowcroft argues that NATO’s Libya intervention may point to the future of the military alliance as the go-to enforcer of UN Security Council resolutions.

54 members of Congress urge Obama to invite Macedonia into NATO

By the Hill

From the Hill: Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich.) and a bipartisan group of 53 other House members called on President Obama late last week to ensure that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) invites Macedonia to the group during a planned May summit meeting in Chicago.