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MENASource

Jan 8, 2013

Top News: Ministry announces governor reshuffle; Islamists to gain eight posts

By Egypt Source

Eight new governors are to be appointed in Greater Cairo, Qena, Sharqiya, Monufiya, Aswan and the New Valley, said sources from the Local Development Ministry. 

NATOSource

Jan 8, 2013

Defense spending among E.U. member states at a record low

By Judy Dempsey, International Herald Tribune

From Judy Dempsey, International Herald Tribune:  At the end of this month, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary general, will release new figures on defense spending by the 28 Alliance members.

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Jan 8, 2013

Forming a Syrian Opposition Government: The Time is Now

By Frederic C. Hof

The Syrian Opposition Council (SOC) formed in November 2012 faces no shortage of dire challenges as it tries to organize itself and give desperately needed political leadership to a heterogeneous hodgepodge of armed and unarmed opponents of the dying yet lethally venomous regime of Bashar al-Assad.  How to uphold the primacy of citizenship in an […]

Syria

NATOSource

Jan 8, 2013

Intell on Syria’s chemical weapons sparked international action to stop ‘bomb preparation’

By Eric Schmitt and David E. Sanger, New York Times

From Eric Schmitt and David E. Sanger, New York Times:  In the last days of November, Israel’s top military commanders called the Pentagon to discuss troubling intelligence that was showing up on satellite imagery: Syrian troops appeared to be mixing chemicals at two storage sites, probably the deadly nerve gas sarin, and filling dozens of […]

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jan 8, 2013

Saving Syria from Assad

By Julian Lindley-French

Syrian President Assad left little grounds for optimism in his 6 January ‘peace’ initiative. Clearly there can now be no peace with Assad but what will it take to get rid of him and what would happen if he went?

National Security Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jan 7, 2013

Decades of German Pacifism Yield to Bigger Military Role

By Nicholas Kulish, New York Times

From Nicholas Kulish, New York Times:  When Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted a recent reception for military families, she greeted parents, wives and children whose loved ones were spending their holidays in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Kosovo and off the Horn of Africa. German deployments overseas, Ms. Merkel said, “will soon encompass the entire globe.”

NATOSource

Jan 7, 2013

Slovak Embassy serves as NATO contact in Serbia

By Slovak Spectator

From Slovak Spectator:  The Slovak Embassy has been serving as the contact point for NATO in Serbia since January 1, 2013, the TASR newswire reported on January 6. . . . Serbia’s President Tomislav Nikolic, a former key player in the government of Slobodan Milošević when Serbia was attacked by NATO in 1999, has recently […]

NATOSource

Jan 7, 2013

Greek defense budget in need of reform?

By Judy Dempsey, International Herald Tribune

From Judy Dempsey, International Herald Tribune:  During the height of the global financial crisis of 2008, Greek defense expenditures accounted for 3.1 percent of gross domestic product. Over the past two years, Greek defense spending still amounted to 2.1 percent of G.D.P.

Economy & Business European Union

MENASource

Jan 7, 2013

A Closer Look at Egypt’s Shura Council and its First Week with Legislative Power

By Nancy Messieh

With legislative power now officially in the hands of the Shura Council, or the Upper House of Parliament, and 90 new members appointed to the state body, several pressing issues have come to the forefront of the political landscape. As Judge and EgyptSource contributor Yussef Auf points out, the Shura Council was elected with a […]

NATOSource

Jan 7, 2013

Obama Nominates Chuck Hagel, Atlantic Council Chairman, for Secretary of Defense

By the Atlantic Council

From the Atlantic Council:  President Barack Obama today nominated Atlantic Council Chairman Senator Chuck Hagel to be the 24th US Secretary of Defense.

United States and Canada
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