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New Atlanticist

Feb 26, 2013

Is Iran Essential to Syria’s Future?

By Loren White

After 23 months of fighting, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on power is increasingly tenuous. Fearing its greatest ally could be ousted, Iran has reportedly begun forming large sectarian militias in Syria to bolster the regime in the short term, and also to preserve its influence should Assad be overthrown. With so much at stake, […]

Iran Syria

MENASource

Feb 26, 2013

Live Updates: Egypt’s National Dialogue Aired Live for the First Time

By Egypt Source

Live updates of Egypt’s national dialogue

NATOSource

Feb 26, 2013

First rotation of U.S. Air Force personnel & aircraft arrive in Poland

By U.S. Embassy in Poland

From U.S. Embassy in Poland:  The first rotation of  U.S. Air Force personnel and aircraft is arriving at Powidz Air Base this weekend, marking the beginning of quarterly exercises between U.S. and Polish troops.

MENASource

Feb 26, 2013

Detention of Minors: A New Wave of Brutality

By Amira Mikhail

A new era of brutality has emerged in Egypt where the targeting of children has become far too frequent. Ahmed Moselhy, a lawyer in the Egyptian Coalition for Child Rights (ECCR), estimates that at least 7,415 minors were arrested in the past year in Alexandria and Cairo alone. Since January 25, 2013, with the most […]

MENASource

Feb 26, 2013

Top News: NSF Rejects Morsi’s Call to Discuss Transparent Elections Guarantees, Announces Election Boycott

By Egypt Source

Egypt’s presidency is planning to hold a national dialogue meeting on Tuesday with a number of political groups to discuss transparency of the upcoming parliamentary elections. Around 60 public figures, among them National Salvation Front members, have called on political parties and movements to announce a collective boycott of the upcoming parliamentary elections. GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION […]

NATOSource

Feb 26, 2013

Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and U.S. agree to develop a Multinational Aviation Training Center

By Czech Defense Ministry

From Czech Defense Ministry:  Representatives of Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the United States signed in Brussels a “Letter of Intent” to the Multinational Aviation Training Centre on Thursday 21 February 2013.

New Atlanticist

Feb 26, 2013

Fighting Chinese Cyberespionage: Obama’s Next Move

By Jason Healey

Finally the Obama administration has come into the open in their calls against other nations’ stealing of trade secrets, especially through cyberespionage. The just-released “Administration Strategy on Mitigating the Theft of US Trade Secrets” is the next in a promised string of new cyber policies and actions from a newly invigorated White House. Like the […]

China Cybersecurity

New Atlanticist

Feb 26, 2013

Xbox Dreadnought?

By Julian Lindley-French

HMS Dreadnought at a stroke condemned every other battleship on the planet to the scrap yard. Launched in 1906 she represented a revolutionary step change in ship design combining big guns and new Parsons steam turbines with heavy armor in such a way that she could out-gun, out-pace and out-protect any battleship afloat.  Is warfare about to […]

Cybersecurity Drones

NATOSource

Feb 26, 2013

Officials confirm Croatia as source of new weapons in Syria

By C. J. Chivers and Eric Schmitt, New York Times

From C. J. Chivers and Eric Schmitt, New York Times:  Saudi Arabia has financed a large purchase of infantry weapons from Croatia and quietly funneled them to antigovernment fighters in Syria

NATOSource

Feb 25, 2013

German Foreign Ministry: NATO reforms moving at ‘snail’s pace’

By Matthias Gebauer, Ralf Neukirch, Gordon Repinski and Christoph Schult, Spiegel

From Matthias Gebauer, Ralf Neukirch, Gordon Repinski and Christoph Schult, Spiegel:  With unprecedented bluntness, a confidential analysis by the German Foreign Ministry reveals how few of the programs that were announced at the NATO summit in Chicago last year have been implemented.

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