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New Atlanticist

Sep 14, 2011

Strategic Instability is Inherent in Cyber Conflict

By Jason Healey and Hannah Pitts

Strategic instability will be an inherent factor in cyber conflict for the foreseeable future, according to preliminary findings of a research effort by the Cyber Conflict Studies Association (CCSA), led by Greg Rattray and James Mulvenon.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Sep 14, 2011

What 9/11 Has Wrought

By Dov Zakheim

Everyday American images of the war on terror—the legacy of 9/11: Government buildings surrounded by ugly concrete blocks. Pennsylvania Avenue, the street that the White House—once known as the “people’s house”—faces, no longer open to traffic. ID cards required everywhere. Airline passengers waiting patiently in line to take off their shoes, belts, jewelry—and to have […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Sep 14, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on September 13

By NATO

NATOSource

Sep 14, 2011

Turkey announces site for NATO missile defense radar

By Selcan Hacaoglu, the AP

Drones Technology & Innovation

NATOSource

Sep 14, 2011

Obama and Basescu seal agreement for missile interceptors in Romania

By AFP

United States and Canada

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Sep 14, 2011

NATO balks at Libya nation-building, policing

By Slobodan Lekic, the AP

From Slobodan Lekic, the AP:  NATO, which has been bogged down for nearly 10 years in Afghanistan and more than 12 in Kosovo, is desperately seeking a mission it can end, quickly, cleanly and for good.

NATOSource

Sep 14, 2011

Taliban and NATO in tweet battle

By Tim Mak, POLITCO

From Tim Mak, POLITCO:  As the Taliban’s attack on key buildings in Kabul was crushed after 20 hours of fighting, NATO-led forces engaged in a tweet tussle with a user that the UK’s Guardian has identified as a spokesperson for the insurgent group.

NATOSource

Sep 13, 2011

UK urges defense contractors to look overseas

By Keith Weir, Reuters

United Kingdom United States and Canada

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Sep 13, 2011

Rasmussen to appoint special envoy to open defense markets within NATO

By Keith Weir, Reuters

From Keith Weir, Reuters:  The United States and European countries should do more to open up their defence markets to competition at a time of tight budgets, the head of NATO said on Monday.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Sep 13, 2011

NATO’s Finest Hour

By Ivo Daalder, the Wall Street Journal

From Ivo Daalder, the Wall Street Journal:  Yesterday we all remembered that day 10 years ago, when terrorists turned airplanes into weapons of mass destruction. But we should also remember what happened the following day.