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Aug 18, 2011

No way out for Gaddafi

By the Economist

From the Economist:  “Today Zawiya, tomorrow Tripoli,” cried a rebel fighter as he jumped into his open-top truck and drove across an unprotected plain stretching from a dusty mountain range down to the Mediterranean coast.

New Atlanticist

Aug 18, 2011

Defining the Defense Problem in an Age of Austerity

By Derek Reveron

With the intent to reduce the US defense budget over the next ten years by $350 billion, Einstein offers sage advice when thinking about major problems. “If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.” The problem in this case is not […]

NATOSource

Aug 18, 2011

Planning for Libya 2.0

By Daniel Serwer, Foreign Policy

Energy & Environment European Union

NATOSource

Aug 18, 2011

America’s lost ally

By George Will, the Washington Post

From George Will, the Washington Post:  NATO’s secretary-general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, recently warned that “at the current pace of cuts,” it is hard to see how in the future “Europe could maintain enough military capabilities to sustain” operations such as those under way in Libya.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Aug 17, 2011

Droning on in Afghanistan

By Sarwar Kashmeri

A century ago, gunboats enforced England’s dominance in the far corners of the world. Kill a British colonial governor and you’d wake up one morning to see a Royal Navy gunboat steaming in over the horizon, guns blazing, as it leveled a village in retaliation. Today it is the drone — the ubiquitous pilotless airplane […]

Afghanistan Drones

NATOSource

Aug 17, 2011

New NATO website about pirate activity

By Allied Command Operations

From Allied Command Operations:  Yesterday, the new, improved NATO Shipping Centre (NSC) website went live providing more comprehensive and timely information about pirate activity around the Horn of Africa for the shipping community.

NATOSource

Aug 17, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on August 16

By NATO

New Atlanticist

Aug 17, 2011

Ramazan’s Lost Chance for an Afghan Truce

By Maleeha Lodhi

A slew of questions were raised when a Chinook helicopter was shot down on 6 August in Afghanistan ’s Wardak province killing 30 US servicemen – most of them elite Navy seals – and eight Afghans. Will the heaviest loss of American lives in a single incident since 2001 heighten doubts about the Afghan mission […]

Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Aug 17, 2011

The Most Dangerous Quadrant

By Harlan Ullman

The global economy is adrift in what could be a perfect storm fueled by a drought of growth and consumer demand, tidal waves of debt and deficit and a European banking system that is sinking.

Economy & Business

NATOSource

Aug 17, 2011

Panetta: Bigger defense cuts would ‘weaken’ US

By Robert Burns, the AP

From Robert Burns, the AP:  Large new cuts in defense spending would "terribly weaken" U.S. national security, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday as he and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used a rare joint interview to argue that the nation cannot afford to keep playing partisan chicken with its finances.

United States and Canada
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