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Nov 26, 2011

21 NATO soldiers wounded in Kosovo clash

By Fatos Bytyci, Reuters

From Fatos Bytyci, Reuters:  Twenty-one NATO soldiers were wounded overnight, one seriously, when Serbs in Kosovo fought with peacekeepers trying to remove barricades erected against the country’s ethnic Albanian authorities, the alliance said on Thursday.

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Nov 26, 2011

Turkey Unveils Changes to Military Obligations

By Joe Parkinson, the Wall Street Journal

From Joe Parkinson, the Wall Street Journal:  Turkey’s prime minister on Tuesday announced long-awaited reforms to military conscription, offering draftees over the age of 30 the chance to buy their way out of service and inching NATO’s second biggest army closer to becoming a professional force.

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Nov 23, 2011

White House will not change missile defense plans despite Medvedev’s warning

By FoxNews

From FoxNews:  The U.S. is not planning on making any changes to its missile defense system in Europe, a U.S. official said Wednesday, despite a warning from Russia’s president that Moscow will target the U.S. system if Washington goes ahead and deploys the planned shield.

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Nov 23, 2011

Medvedev willing to sabotage US-Russia arms control unless agreement reached on NATO missile defense

By Charles Clover and James Blitz, the Financial Times

From Charles Clover and James Blitz, the Financial Times:  Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s president, has warned that a failure by the US to take into account Russian objections to a planned Nato anti-missile shield would spark a new arms race and derail efforts to improve frosty relations between Washington and Moscow.  Accusing the US and its […]

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Nov 23, 2011

Russia downplays US and NATO decisions on CFE treaty

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  NATO’s decision to curb its cooperation with Moscow on the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty will not harm Russia’s interests, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. United States and a number of its NATO allies announced on Tuesday they will no longer exchange information on conventional weapons and troops with […]

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Nov 23, 2011

End of CFE? U.S. halts arms treaty cooperation with Russia

By Reuters

From Reuters:  The United States said on Tuesday it will stop sharing data with Russia under a treaty that limits conventional forces in Europe, saying it was doing so four years after Moscow halted its participation in the pact. The 1990 Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) limits the number of battle tanks, heavy […]

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Nov 23, 2011

Secretary General Rasmussen describes Medvedev’s military plans against NATO missile defense as “very disappointing”

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  I have taken note of President Medvedev’s statement on missile defence.

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Nov 23, 2011

Medvedev orders military to prepare “measures for disabling” NATO missile defense system

By Dmitry Medvedev, Office of the President of Russia

From Dmitry Medvedev, Office of the President of Russia:  Our only goal was to preserve the basic principle that Europe does not need new dividing lines, but rather, a common security perimeter with Russia’s equal and legally enshrined participation.

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Nov 23, 2011

EU faces warship shortage for Somali piracy mission

By David Brunnstrom, Reuters

From David Brunnstrom, Reuters:  The European Union is short of warships for its counter-piracy mission off Somalia and is unlikely the fill the gap until March given economic constraints, the top EU military officer said on Tuesday.

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Nov 22, 2011

Panetta expects European allies to address “key shortfalls” in time for next NATO summit in May

By Leon Panetta, the Department of Defense

From Leon Panetta, the Department of Defense:  The reality is that the United States military alone cannot be all things to all nations.

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