Category: NATOSource

Europeans Retreat on Defense Spending

By Stephen Fidler and Alistair MacDonald, the Wall Street Journal

From Stephen Fidler and Alistair MacDonald, the Wall Street Journal:  Europe’s strapped militaries are looking for ways to cooperate with one another to compensate for cutbacks. But past efforts on that front have run into difficulties.

Could NATO’s Libya mission be its last hurrah?

By Robert Marquand, the Christian Science Monitor

From Robert Marquand, the Christian Science Monitor:  Despite Qaddafi’s prediction that Western leaders would fall “like Hitler and Mussolini” and his claims that he was "ready for a long war,” NATO weathered six months of a see-saw battle in Libya

Kohl slams Germany’s ‘unreliable’ foreign policy

By the Local (Germany)

UN or NATO peacekeepers in Libya?

By Max Boot, the Los Angeles Times

Update: NATO activities in Libya on August 23

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NATO Considers Options for a Postwar Role in Libya

By the AP

From the AP:  NATO’s governing body — the North Atlantic Council — has told its military staff to brainstorm ways to assist a future U.N. mission to stabilize the country.

Curious victory for NATO in Libya

By Michael Clarke, Royal United Service Institute

From Michael Clarke, Royal United Service Institute:  Few dispute the assertion that NATO jets enabled Libyan rebels to come knocking on Qadhafi’s door in Tripoli. But as he  falls, it will be difficult to avoid the conclusion that NATO emerges from this successful operation weaker than it went into it. . . . The NATO-led […]

Success in Libya reinforces value of NATO

By David Owen, the Telegraph

From David Owen, the Telegraph:  Paradoxically, it is Nato rather than the UN that emerges battered and divided from the intervention. Only eight of its 28 members – less than one third – agreed to engage their air forces and bomb Libya.

Panetta praises NATO’s role in Libya

By Armed Forces Press Service

From Armed Forces Press Service:  Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta today called U.S. support for the NATO mission that’s helping opposition forces make progress against Moammar Gadhafi’s regime Libya an example of the international cooperation that will be critical in the future.

Libya’s impact on transatlantic security

By James Blitz, the Financial Times

From James Blitz, the Financial Times:  Above all, the US, having spearheaded the initial assault, took a back seat – catching Britain and France by surprise.