Category: NATOSource

U.S. should stay out of Syria’s conflict

By the Editors of the Los Angeles Times

From the Editors of the Los Angeles Times:  War is not something to blunder into blithely, and no country — no matter how powerful — can solve all the problems of all the countries in the world.

As Europe becomes a ‘sanctions machine,’ it still lacks a strategy

By Charlemagne, the Economist

From Charlemagne, the Economist:  Hardly a meeting of foreign ministers passes without punitive measures against a brutal regime: import and investment bans, restrictions on financial dealings, hit-lists with hundreds of people stopped from entering the EU and having their assets frozen.

The case for arming Syria’s opposition

By Stephen J. Hadley, the Washington Post

From Stephen J. Hadley, the Washington Post:  The moral case for arming Syrians seeking their freedom has become overwhelming.

British MoD reconsidering buying different version of F-35 fighter

By Richard Norton-Taylor, the Guardian

From Richard Norton-Taylor, the Guardian:  Britain’s troubled and increasingly expensive plan to equip the navy with new aircraft carriers has been plunged into fresh turmoil as ministers consider reversing their earlier decision to change the type of plane that should fly from them, it has emerged.

Qatar crosses the Syrian Rubicon: $100 million to buy weapons for the rebels

By Martin Chulov, the Guardian

US expanding hi-tech intelligence base in Britain

By Richard Norton-Taylor, the Guardian

From Richard Norton-Taylor, the Guardian:  America’s largest eavesdropping centre in Britain, Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire, is being expanded in a multimillion-pound programme as it becomes increasingly vital to US intelligence and military operations

Rasmussen: ‘NATO doesn’t just talk about security – NATO delivers security’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  Our Chicago Summit will be an important event. Because NATO is busier than ever protecting our shared values and our shared security.

Did Panetta disclose internal talking points instead of planned public statements?

By Josh Rogin, the Cable

From Josh Rogin, the Cable:  One announcement that won’t be made at the NATO summit is the alliance’s intention to mark 2013 as the year when full, lead combat responsibility will be handed over from NATO to the Afghan security forces.

McCain: ‘Our European allies remain our preeminent security partners’

By John McCain, Office of Senator McCain

From John McCain, Office of Senator McCain:  Our European allies remain our preeminent security partners. And today, EUCOM and NATO are being called upon to bear an ever greater responsibility for diverse international security challenges