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Feb 4, 2013

Obama’s Afghan Test

By Frederick Kempe

For America’s friends and allies, who will welcome Vice President Joe Biden to the annual Munich Security Conference this weekend, President Obama’s second inaugural address was notable for its single-minded focus on U.S. domestic issues even as global challenges proliferate. It was the clearest sign yet that Obama intends to build his historic legacy at […]

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Feb 4, 2013

Cyberwar, out of the shadows

By Editorial Board, Washington Post

From Editorial Board, Washington Post:  [N]ow that the United States is going beyond defense, expanding forces for offensive attack, there’s a crying need for more openness. So far, forces exist almost entirely in the shadows.

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Feb 4, 2013

Secret legal review argues that Obama has power to launch a pre-emptive cyber strike

By David Sanger and Thom Shanker, New York Times

From David Sanger and Thom Shanker, New York Times:  A secret legal review on the use of America’s growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike if the United States detects credible evidence of a major digital attack looming from abroad, according to officials involved […]

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Feb 4, 2013

NATO Chief: Mali and Libya exposed gaps in European defense capabilities

By James Blitz, Financial Times

From James Blitz, Financial Times:  France’s military intervention in Mali has provided a fresh indication of how European states rely heavily on the US when trying to conduct their own operations, Nato’s secretary-general has warned.

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Feb 4, 2013

Mali: Mission (pas) accomplie

By J. Peter Pham

The triumphalism of French President François Hollande’s visit over the weekend to the fabled desert city of Timbuktu less than a week after French forces pushed out al-Qaeda-linked militants had more than a passing whiff of George W. Bush’s “mission accomplished” landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln ten years ago. Hopefully, both France and the […]

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Feb 2, 2013

US preparing intelligence assessment of cyber threat from China

By Lolita C. Baldor, AP

From Lolita C. Baldor, AP:  The Obama administration is considering more assertive action against Beijing to combat a persistent cyber-espionage campaign it believes Chinese hackers are waging against U.S. companies and government agencies.

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Feb 1, 2013

NATO Secretary General strongly condemns attack on US Embassy in Turkey

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  I strongly condemn today’s bomb attack on the Embassy of the United States in Ankara, which killed and injured a number of people.

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Feb 1, 2013

Turkey, Weary of the EU, Tiptoes Towards the Shanghai Five

By Yavuz Baydar, Huffington Post

From Yavuz Baydar, Huffington Post:  Turkey’s popular, charismatic and impulsive prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, never ceases to surprise. His recent bombshell was about Turky’s flirtation with the "Shanghai Five," The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).

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New Atlanticist

Feb 1, 2013

Hagel Hearings: Garbage In, Garbage Out

By James Joyner

The Senate confirmation hearings over Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be the next secretary of defense were a classic case of garbage in, garbage out. Sadly, they were par for the course in the American national security debate.

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Feb 1, 2013

Ankara Embassy Bombing: Not Another Benghazi

By Ross Wilson

Once again, hearts and prayers go out to a victim of a terrorist assault on a US diplomatic establishment.  The February 1 suicide attack on the American embassy in Ankara claimed one wounded, a visiting Turkish journalist, and two dead–embassy security guard Mustafa Akarsu and the bomber himself. 

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