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New Atlanticist

Feb 22, 2013

Security Force Assistance: It’s Not Just for Weak States

By Derek Reveron

Doctrinally, security force assistance (SFA) is a set of activities to develop the capacity and capabilities of foreign security forces and their supporting institutions. We often associate SFA with weak states, where the United States enables partner countries such as Pakistan, Colombia, and Yemen to combat challenges that threaten their own security and regional stability.

NATO Security & Defense

MENASource

Feb 22, 2013

Off the Egyptian Press: Brotherhood and Salafist Tensions

By Andrew Ver Steegh

Political news from Egypt over the past week has been dominated by reports of tensions between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafist Nour Party (centered around the dismissal of presidential advisor Khalid Alam El Din), as well as by news of meetings between members of the leadership of the Freedom and Justice party and the […]

MENASource

Feb 22, 2013

The Coming Parliament: A New Crisis

By Yussef Auf

In the coming months, Egypt has a date with a new constitutional crisis, and it should come as no surprise that the source of this crisis is the new Egyptian constitution, full as it is with ambiguities and flaws. The flaw this time is found in the text of Article 177 of the constitution which […]

MENASource

Feb 22, 2013

Top News: Parliamentary Elections Set for April 28

By Egypt Source

Elections for Egypt’s lower house of parliament, the House of Representatives, will begin in April and take place over four stages with the House finally convening in July.

NATOSource

Feb 22, 2013

NATO Afraid Of Russian Snooping At Ulyanovsk?

By Nikolaus von Twickel, Moscow Times

From Nikolaus von Twickel, Moscow Times:  NATO and Russia pride themselves on cooperation over Afghanistan and the fight against terrorists and pirates, but a planned logistics hub to transport military hardware from Afghanistan is not taking off.

United Kingdom

MENASource

Feb 22, 2013

Syria: From Objective to Strategy

By Frederic C. Hof

The objective of US policy for Syria should be a Syria fundamentally inclined to cooperate with the United States in the region and beyond, as discussed in a previous commentary. Achieving this objective would involve seven conditions: elimination of the Assad regime; its replacement by a non-sectarian government of citizenship and civil society, one governing […]

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NATOSource

Feb 22, 2013

Panetta, Germany differ on troop numbers in Afghanistan

By Lolita C. Baldor, AP

From Lolita C. Baldor, AP:  Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and his German counterpart offered conflicting accounts Friday of a discussion about how many U.S. and European forces would remain in Afghanistan after the anticipated end of combat after 2014.

NATO Security & Defense

NATOSource

Feb 21, 2013

Defense minister says France’s lack of drones is ‘incomprehensible’

By Steven Erlanger, New York Times

From Steven Erlanger, New York Times:   “I had always been the boss of regional councils, but not in a situation to decide a war,” he [French Defense Minister  Jean-Yves Le Drian] said.

Drones European Union

NATOSource

Feb 21, 2013

Report: US expects NATO allies and partners to provide 10,000 trainers in post-2014 Afghanistan

By Matthias Gebauer and Christoph Schult, Spiegel

From Matthias Gebauer and Christoph Schult, Spiegel:  The United States envisions only a minimal presence of American troops in Afghanistan once the NATO mission comes to an end in late 2014.

MENASource

Feb 21, 2013

Preparing for Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections: A Guide

By Nancy Messieh

Last updated: 2/21/2013  With Parliamentary elections slated for April, and President Mohamed Morsi adamantly stating that they will go on as expected, a few of Egypt’s political parties have begun to prepare for the ballot boxes.  With no date set as of yet, Morsi has until February 25 to announce the date, as per the […]

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