Category: Blogs

NATO-EU: Working to fill gaps in defense capabilities

By NATO

From NATO: NATO’s relations with the European Union go back twenty years: the 1992 Maastricht Treaty was the first EU treaty to mention NATO.

EU membership losing its appeal in Turkey

By Kristina Karasu, Spiegel

The End of the Old World

By Kenneth Weisbrode

Europe, or rather the idea of Europe, has long been a part of American politics. In fact, Old World/New World distinctions—embodying the doctrine of the two spheres—predate the independence of the United States. Americans for most of their history have been identified—and have identified themselves—in contradistinction to Europe.

How Much Is Enough?

By Harlan Ullman

During the Kennedy-Johnson-McNamara years of the Cold War, the ritualized question over national defense was “how much is enough?” The “how much” referred to what military capability was needed to defend and deter against the Soviet China and Red China, largely measured in numbers of nuclear weapons, and what should be spent on acquiring the […]

Top News: Mekki Finalizing Judicial Independence Law

By Egypt Source

Minister of Justice Ahmed Mekki will transfer authority over the Judicial Inspection Directorate from the Ministry of Justice to the Supreme Council of the Judiciary (SCJ), effectively ending one of the main ways the executive branch controlled the judiciary. 

Morsi’s Check, Not a Checkmate

By Tarek Radwan

President Mohamed Morsi delivered a tremendously game-changing blow to the military with the dismissal of defense minister and head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi along with his chief of staff Sami Anan. The broad reshuffle of Egypt’s security personnel and the SCAF set activists, think-tanks, and egyptophiles ablaze […]

Through NATO-EU cooperation, Dutch ship frees crew hijacked by pirates

By NATO

From NATO:  On 13 August 2012, the armed boarding team of the Dutch naval vessel HNLMS Rotterdam freed a pirated vessel in the Gulf of Aden and detained six suspected pirates.

Poland wants to replace old Su-22 bombers with armed drones

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Poland is planning to replace its obsolete Soviet-built Sukhoi Su-22 strike aircraft with an unmanned strike aircraft (UCAV) system, Deputy Defense Minister Waldemar Skrzypczak told TVN24 television on Tuesday.