Category: NATOSource

NATO: Member nations should share military systems

By the AP

From the AP:  NATO officials hope that, at a summit in Chicago this May, member nations will put aside concerns over sovereignty and agree in principle to create joint defense capabilities.

NATO’s Duty

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times:  Tragic mistakes all too often accompany combat operations, even when the military objectives are humanitarian.

Russian intelligence chief accuses West over cyber security

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Western special services are trying to compromise Russia’s cyber security, Army Gen. Sergei Smirnov, first deputy director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), said on Tuesday.

NATO’s sea of troubles

By the Economist

From the Economist:  As preparations begin for NATO’s Chicago summit in May, the 63-year-old alliance is facing a perfect storm of problems.

Norway establishes ‘Arctic Battalion’

By Trude Peterson, the Barents Observer

Ousting Syria’s Assad through a ‘soft landing’

By David Ignatius, the Washington Post

From David Ignatius, the Washington Post:  Maybe it’s time for Syrian revolutionaries to take “yes” for an answer from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and back a U.N.-sponsored “managed transition” of power there, rather than rolling on toward a civil war

The Never-Ending Cold War

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times:  Two decades after the end of the cold war, Mitt Romney still considers Russia to be America’s “No. 1 geopolitical foe.”

EU rights group blasts NATO over migrant deaths

By Slobodan Lekic, the AP

From Slobodan Lekic, the AP:  An EU rights group has blasted NATO and Western coast guards for failing to aid a boatload of migrants, dozens of whom died while adrift in the Mediterranean Sea during last year’s military campaign against Libya. A report by a Council of Europe committee said that only nine of 72 […]

President Obama’s bad bet on Vladi­mir Putin

By the Editorial Board of the Washington Post

From the Editorial Board of the Washington Post:  The return of Vladi­mir Putin to the Russian presidency ought to have caused the Obama administration to reshape its policy toward the Kremlin.