Category: NATOSource

NATO Warship Rescues Crew from Ship in Peril in Cyclone

By NATO

From NATO:   HMS Chatham’s Bridge team received a distress call from the Master of MV Dubai Moon, who said that his ship was caught in a tropical storm 90 miles south west of Socotra and struggling to make headway in extremely rough seas and high winds. … As HMS Chatham made her way into the […]

New British Government Calls Afghanistan Its Top Foreign Policy Priority

By  Reuters

From Reuters:  Ministers from Britain’s new coalition government were in Afghanistan on Saturday for talks with President Hamid Karzai and other officials … Foreign Secretary William Hague, Defense Secretary Liam Fox and International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell will meet Karzai and some of his ministers, visit British troops and also see a British-funded development project, officials […]

British Troops in Afghanistan to Get U.S. Commander

By Reuters

From Reuters:  Almost all British troops fighting in Afghanistan will answer directly to a U.S. commander as part of a restructuring of the NATO-led mission, NATO and the British army said on Friday. Helmand province, where military operations to oust Taliban militants have long been under British control, will fall under the command of U.S. […]

Fixing Nato: Three Key Steps

By Ronald Asmus, the German Marshall Fund

Turkey’s Zero-Problems Foreign Policy

By Ahmet Davutoğlu, Foreign Policy

From Ahmet Davutoğlu, Foreign Policy:  During the Cold War, Turkey was a "wing country" under NATO’s strategic framework, resting on the geographic perimeter of the Western alliance. NATO’s strategic concept, however, has evolved in the post-Cold War era — and so has Turkey’s calculation of its strategic environment. Turkey’s presence in Afghanistan is a clear […]

High-Level Consultations Between NATO and Pakistan

By NATO

From NATO: Deputy Assistant Secretary General Robert Simmons visited Islamabad on 19 and 20 May for an exchange of views with Pakistani authorities on a range of issues of common interest to NATO and Pakistan. Mr. Simmons met with Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir

North Atlantic Council Visits KFOR

By NATO

From NATO: NATO’s senior decision-making body the North Atlantic Council (NAC) is visiting KFOR on 21 May. The representatives of NATO’s 28 member states and the Secretary General are meeting with COM KFOR LtGen Markus Bentler

NATO Agrees to Split of Regional Command South, Afghanistan

By NATO

From NATO: On 21 May 2010, the North Atlantic Council, in consultation with non-NATO ISAF Troop Contributing Nations, gave final authorisation for the reorganisation of ISAF’s Regional Command South and the establishment of an additional Regional Command South-West – RC(SW) – in Afghanistan.

Turkey Attempts to Decrease Tensions Over Aegean Flights

By Hurriyet

From Hurriyet: The air force is meaningless if you do not fly its pilots, said Chief of General Staff Gen. İlker Başbuğ regarding the dogfights occurring over the Aegean Sea between Turkish and Greek fighter jets. Başbuğ attended a panel at the General Staff headquarters titled “Atatürk as a soldier and politician in the 129th […]

A New NATO-Based Alliance

By Conrad Black, the National Review

From Conrad Black, the National Review: NATO today is essentially an arrangement between formerly Soviet-occupied countries in desperate need, for obvious historic reasons, of a U.S. military guarantee against Russia, and a cordial alliance that includes a democratic Germany; and the countries that joined the U.S.-led NATO originally to resist Soviet expansionism, and that now […]