Category: Blogs

Top News: Gen. Dempsey Discusses NGO crisis with Field Marshal Tantawi

By Mara Revkin

Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff discussed the NGO crisis with Field Marshal Tantawi in Cairo on February 11. Results of the discussion were not made public, but Field Marshal Tantawi later stressed the importance of maintaining strong ties with the U.S. in a meeting with the cabinet.

NATO to Iran: Don’t worry about missile shield unless you plan attack

By Fatma Demirelli, Today's Zaman

From Fatma Demirelli, Today’s Zaman:  In an exclusive interview with Today’s Zaman in Brussels last week, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen added his voice to the growing regional controversy over the nascent missile defense system

McRaven Seeks Freer Hand in Deployment of Special Operations forces

By Eric Schmitt, Mark Mazzetti, and Thom Shanker, the New York Times

From Eric Schmitt, Mark Mazzetti, and Thom Shanker, the New York Times:  As the United States turns increasingly to Special Operations forces to confront developing threats scattered around the world

Head of US Army Cyber Command: ‘Cyberspace requires a world-class cyber warrior’

By Peter Apps, Reuters

From Peter Apps, Reuters:  With growing worries about the threat of "cyber warfare," militaries around the world are racing to recruit the computer specialists they believe may be central to the conflicts of the 21st century. But whilst money is plentiful for new forces of "cyber warriors," attracting often individualistic technical specialists and hackers into […]

Desperate or Serious? U.S. Must Drag Policies Out of Old Mindsets

By Harlan Ullman

A century ago, gallows humor about the inevitability of an otherwise avoidable world war permeated the upper ranks of the Kaiser’s Army. The German General Staff quipped that this gathering crisis, when viewed from Paris, was dismissed as serious but not yet desperate. In Berlin, however, conditions were seen as the opposite — desperate but […]

NATO says found Afghan children dead after air strike

By Rob Taylor, Reuters

From Rob Taylor, Reuters:  NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said on Monday they found the bodies of dead children after a coalition air strike that has enraged the Afghan government, and said their deaths may have been linked to an anti-insurgent operation in the area.

America’s First Trans-Atlantic, Encrypted Cable Cost $20,000

By Parapolitical

From Parapolitical:  The U.S. National Security Agency last month released a 1991 historical summary detailing the U.S. State Department’s first use of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable to send an encrypted message

Russian Officer Convicted of Spying for CIA

By the AP