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Update: NATO activities in Libya on August 18

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Are German Soldiers Secretly Helping Fight Gadhafi?

By Matthias Gebauer, Spiegel

From Matthias Gebauer, Spiegel:  German soldiers are more directly involved in NATO air attacks against military forces of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi than was previously known.

In The Arctic Race, The U.S. Lags Behind

By Martin Kaste, NPR

From Martin Kaste, NPR:  Seattle is the home of the U.S. Coast Guard’s entire fleet of polar-class icebreakers.  Both of them.

Walt: “Transatlantic security cooperation will decline”

By Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy

From Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy:  I argued that the glory days of transatlantic security cooperation also lie in the past, and we will see less cooperative and intimate security partnership between Europe and America in the future.

Update: NATO activities in Libya on August 17

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No way out for Gaddafi

By the Economist

From the Economist:  “Today Zawiya, tomorrow Tripoli,” cried a rebel fighter as he jumped into his open-top truck and drove across an unprotected plain stretching from a dusty mountain range down to the Mediterranean coast.

Planning for Libya 2.0

By Daniel Serwer, Foreign Policy

America’s lost ally

By George Will, the Washington Post

From George Will, the Washington Post:  NATO’s secretary-general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, recently warned that “at the current pace of cuts,” it is hard to see how in the future “Europe could maintain enough military capabilities to sustain” operations such as those under way in Libya.