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New Atlanticist

Sep 6, 2012

National Security and Defense: How Much and for What Purpose?

By Harlan Ullman

“How much is enough?” is a perennial question often put to national security and defense requirements. The largely invisible and more important extension of that question is understanding what purposes military force must serve in the first place. “For what” must be the starting point for any excursion on future military capability and where, why […]

National Security Security & Defense

NATOSource

Sep 6, 2012

NATO SecGen: ‘achieving security in the 21st century must be a truly cooperative endeavour’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  All Allies share the same fundamental values of liberty, democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human rights. 

United States and Canada

MENASource

Sep 6, 2012

Egyptians, the IMF and the “Fear-of-Float”

By Hoda Youssef

With negotiations over Egypt’s potential IMF loan resuming, the argument over Egypt’s economic situation and its need for foreign assistance has returned to the forefront of public debate. Egyptians refer to the IMF’s financial support as “the loan”, while IMF’s senior officials describe the assistance as financial and technical support, using the Fund’s experience to […]

New Atlanticist

Sep 6, 2012

Why Anglo-Polish Relations Need a Reset

By Julian Lindley-French

They call it the ‘Davos of the East’, the Krynica Economic Forum. It must be a mark of Europe’s desperate economic straits that I have been invited to speak at this huge economics conference. Thankfully, the question posed by my old friend Andrew Michta, Director of the German Marshall Fund Warsaw was closer to home; […]

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Sep 6, 2012

Top News: Top Police Generals Acquitted of January 25 Revolution Killings

By Egypt Source

The Shubra El-Kheima Criminal Court on Thursday found former Qalyoubia Governorate Director of Security Farouk Lasheen and three police generals, Gamal Hosny, Ahmed Momtaz and Samir Zaki, innocent of charges of killing protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. 

NATOSource

Sep 6, 2012

NATO Chief ‘deeply concerned by the Azerbaijani decision to pardon’ Safarov

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  I am deeply concerned by the Azerbaijani decision to pardon the Azerbaijani army officer Safarov.

NATOSource

Sep 6, 2012

Coming soon on demand: Cyber weapons

By John Reed, Killer Apps

From John Reed, Killer Apps:  Last month, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) gave six firms contracts valued at up to $300 million under a program called Agile Cyber Technologies (ACT), which will essentially keep these companies on retainer to provide cyber weapons on-demand under a form of contracting known as Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ).

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Sep 5, 2012

Report: US unable to get Iraq to stop deliveries of Iranian weapons to Syria

By Bradley Klapper and Lara Jakes, the AP

From Bradley Klapper and Lara Jakes, the AP:  Iraq’s acquiescence in possibly allowing Iranian weapons deliveries to the Syrian regime demonstrates Washington’s limited influence in postwar Iraq, its inability to halt Syria’s 18-month conflict and its continued struggle against Tehran for supremacy in the region.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Sep 5, 2012

Missile defense unit in Germany gets state-of-the-art tactical operations center

By Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes

From Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes:  Called a tactical operations center, the maze of tents set up on Rhine Ordnance Barracks holds state-of-the-art technology, such as computers that can pull up imagery of any place in the world with clarity and share that data almost instantaneously.

United States and Canada

MENASource

Sep 5, 2012

Who Are Egypt’s New Governors?

By Nancy Messieh

President Mohamed Morsi appointed ten new governors in key areas of Egypt including Cairo, North Sinai, Alexandria and Minya. The ten governors include four members of the Muslim Brotherhood and three army generals. Military generals were appointed as governors of North Sinai, the Red Sea and Suez governorates, all lying on the Egypt’s borders. The […]

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