Category: Blogs

A Time for Unity

By Robert Bracknell, the New Atlanticist

From Robert Bracknell, the New Atlanticist:  Killing Osama bin Laden should send a strategic signal to the world of American unity, relentlessness, diligence, and resolve to defeat radicalism, ensure American physical and economic security, and support freedom and democracy the world over.

A Time for Unity

By Robert Bracknell

Osama Bin Laden is no more. The latest Afghan war assessment notes frangible, delicate progress, but progress nonetheless. Commanders returning from Afghanistan cite real and substantial advances in the areas for which they were responsible, and even the newspapers give the counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan some chance for success.

NATO is evaluating extending its training mission in Iraq to 2013

By NATOSource

From NATOSource:  Italian Army Maj. Gen. Claudio Angelelli, deputy commander of NATO Training Mission Iraq (NTM-I), recently briefed SHAPE National Military Representatives and NATO’s Military Committee on extending the NTM-I in Iraq through the end of 2013.

Locating the Sources of Extremism in Pakistan

By Luv Puri

In 2006, a friend of mine took me to Abbottabad, which falls on the Karakorran highway, and introduced it as a city of oranges while driving from Islamabad to earthquake impacted areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Muzaffarabad district of Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir. Abbottabad, which was the final abode of  the world’s most wanted man, […]

Update: NATO activities in Libya on May 16

By NATO

The role of EU defense policy in the Eastern neighborhood

By Ariella Huff, European Union Institute for Security Studies

From Ariella Huff, European Union Institute for Security Studies:  The launch of the EU’s Eastern Partnership in 2009 intended to signal a new, elevated level of EU engagement with its Eastern neighbourhood.

Update: NATO activities in Libya on May 16

By NATO

Pakistan: NATO helicopters hit border post

By Karin Brulliard, the Washington Post

From Karin Brulliard, the Washington Post:  NATO helicopters crossed from Afghanistan into Pakistan and fired on a Pakistani border post early Tuesday, injuring two paramilitary soldiers, according to the Pakistani army. Soldiers at the post in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan fired on the helicopters, which prompted an exchange of fire, the military […]

Atlantic Update 5/17/11

By Klee Aiken

The battle to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn begins in earnest, as Asia looks to wrestle control from a Europe keen on keeping the IMF focused on the Euro debt crisis. Greece continues to struggle, Portugal receives a stipend until the IMF and EU finance minsters can assess the post-election picture, and Irish commentators call for the […]

America’s New Cyberspace Strategy

By Jason Healey

At an Atlantic Council event last year, the singer Bono declared, “From rock stars in DC to street kids in Rio, from Harlem to Haiti, from Cape Town to Cairo, we all have a stake in this word America.”  The White House’s new International Strategy for Cyberspace [PDF] roots that promise of rights and freedoms for all […]