Category: Blogs

If Caucasus erupts, war could spread

By Timothy Heritage and Francesco Guarascio, Reuters

From Timothy Heritage and Francesco Guarascio, Reuters:  Sporadic firefights have intensified along the front line around Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave within Azerbaijan in the South Caucasus controlled by ethnic Armenians since a war in the early 1990s that killed about 30,000 people.

NATO Secretary General on impact of 9/11 on transatlantic alliance

Repost from Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  [Eleven] years ago today in the United States, terrorists killed nearly three thousand men, women and children. Citizens of 25 NATO Allied and partner countries died that day.

The Brotherhood’s Second Republic / جمهورية “الإخوان” الثانية

By Magdy Samaan

Various false notions are making the rounds in the media and research centers about the relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egypt and the military establishment. It began with talk of a clash between the two parties, extended to rumors of a ‘Muslim Brotherhood coup against the military’ and most recently has shifted to […]

Russian meddling in Georgia’s desire for NATO membership

By Urmas Reinsalu, the Wall Street Journal

NATO: Raising the Titanic or Lowering the Atlantic?

By Julian Lindley-French

Each time I enter NATO’s sprawling complex I cannot help but think of doomed British film producer Lord Grade. Having staked his future on one of Hollywood’s great flops, “Raise the Titanic”, he lamented afterwards that it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic than raise the Titanic. The eclipsing of the 2010 NATO […]

Preventing Atrocity Crimes in Syria: The Responsibility to Protect

By Paul R. Williams J. Trevor Ulbrick and Jonathan P. Worboys

Has the Syria crisis finally reached the tipping point for intervention? In Aleppo, Human Rights Watch reported that Syrian aircraft have been deliberately bombing breadlines.

Cyber Weapons: A New Kind of Warfare

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times:  [F]aced with rising intrusions against computers that run America’s military systems and its essential infrastructure — its power grid, for instance, and its telecommunications networks — the military here (and elsewhere) sees disruptive software as an essential new tool of war.

Moscow Says NATO Hasn’t Learned Lessons Of 2008 Georgia War

By Civil Georgia

From Civil Georgia:  Reiteration by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen that Georgia would join the alliance, encourages Georgia’s “revanchist aspirations”, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on September 10.

Top News: Freedom of Belief Stirs Controversy in Constitutional Debate

By Egypt Source

Controversy erupted Sunday during the Constituent Assembly’s discussion of an article on the freedom of faith and worship, which was handled in a session attended by a number of intellectuals and artists.