Category: Blogs

Why is NATO bombing Libya but not Syria?

By Fred Kaplan, Slate

From Fred Kaplan, Slate:  If NATO is dropping bombs on Libya, why not on Syria? Aren’t the two regimes equally murderous? Where do we draw the lines on these things, and why?

New organizational structure of the Russian Armed Forces

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  The organizational structure and the number of personnel in the Russian Armed Forces have changed drastically since the beginning of the current military reform in 2008.

NATO sinks boat carrying Gaddafi troops

By Slobodan Lekic, the AP

Update: NATO activities in Libya on August 18

By NATO

Are German Soldiers Secretly Helping Fight Gadhafi?

By Matthias Gebauer, Spiegel

From Matthias Gebauer, Spiegel:  German soldiers are more directly involved in NATO air attacks against military forces of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi than was previously known.

In The Arctic Race, The U.S. Lags Behind

By Martin Kaste, NPR

From Martin Kaste, NPR:  Seattle is the home of the U.S. Coast Guard’s entire fleet of polar-class icebreakers.  Both of them.

Policymaker’s Fear Of The Italian Penalty Shot

By Edward Hugh

According to one anonymous German official speaking off the record to reporters from Der Spiegel, “a country like Italy can’t be saved.” We will have to trust that he was referring to the country’s size when he made the statement, and not its existential core. If he was, he may well be right, at least under […]

Walt: “Transatlantic security cooperation will decline”

By Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy

From Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy:  I argued that the glory days of transatlantic security cooperation also lie in the past, and we will see less cooperative and intimate security partnership between Europe and America in the future.

Update: NATO activities in Libya on August 17

By NATO