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NATOSource

Oct 25, 2011

Spain to pull troops from Libya as soon as NATO’s role ends

By AFP

NATOSource

Oct 25, 2011

NATO issues final Operational Update on Libya

By NATO

NATOSource

Oct 25, 2011

Hayden: Did the Libya Op teach European allies that current levels of defense spending are ‘good enough?’

By Michael Hayden, CNN

NATOSource

Oct 25, 2011

Free Rider no more! – Canada pulls more than its weight in NATO

By Peter Jones, the Ottowa Citizen

From Peter Jones, the Ottowa Citizen:  From the first Gulf War, to Bosnia and Kosovo, to Afghanistan and now to Libya, Canada has carried much more than its share of NATO’s burdens.

NATOSource

Oct 25, 2011

Russia gets NATO ‘nyet’ on missile defense, but Georgia and Ukraine get green light for membership

By Robert Bridge, Russia Today

From Robert Bridge, Russia Today:  NATO officials say they are willing to “cooperate” with Russia in the US missile defense system, while balking on the possibility of building a single system.

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New Atlanticist

Oct 25, 2011

Leaving Iraq a Necessary Risk

By James Joyner

President Obama’s surprise announcement Friday that all US forces would leave Iraq in time to be home for the holidays has been roundly condemned. While there are real concerns about what happens next, there was no better alternative. American Security Project senior fellow Michael Cohen dismisses the critiques as “nakedly partisan talking points masquerading as policy disputes.” In some […]

Iraq

NATOSource

Oct 25, 2011

NATO still hopes to link Russia to missile shield

By Vladimir Isachenkov, the AP

NATOSource

Oct 25, 2011

U.S. dismantling its most powerful nuclear bomb

By the AP

From the AP:  The last of the nation’s most powerful nuclear bombs — a weapon hundreds of times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — is being disassembled nearly half a century after it was put into service at the height of the Cold War.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Oct 25, 2011

US Troop Deployment to Central Africa: Timing, Risks, and Rewards

By James Cook

Last week, President Obama sent a letter to Congress announcing the deployment of a “small number of combat equipped US forces to Central Africa in order to provide assistance for regional forces that are working towards the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield.”

New Atlanticist

Oct 25, 2011

Der Plan and the Onion: Under New Management

By Julian Lindley-French

There is something vaguely disturbing watching a Brussels European Onion summit from afar; especially when the topic is how to waste even more of my money. Watching a few with an awful lot of money in offshore tax havens (the Euro-Aristocracy) instructing a few others on huge tax-free salaries (the Onionistas of the European Omission) […]

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