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Update: NATO activities in Libya on April 22

By NATO

US: First step in reducing NATO’s nuclear inventory is increasing transparency

By Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. Department of State

From Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. Department of State:  The NATO Lisbon Summit Declaration makes clear that the Alliance will seek to create the conditions needed to reduce the role and number of nuclear weapons assigned to NATO.

Coalition of the Ambivalent

By the Wall Street Journal

From the Wall Street Journal:  These columns have argued from the first that it is in America’s strategic interest to see Gadhafi gone.

Humanitarian missions can be cruel

By Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post

From Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post:  President Obama made the intervention possible by giving his approval and committing U.S. assets.

The military interventions we don’t plan for — those to protect civilians

By Sarah Sewall and Anthony Zini, the Washington Post

From Sarah Sewall and Anthony Zini, the Washington Post:  If the United States is serious about protecting civilians, though, it needs to address the kinds of conundrums that are emerging in Libya

Europe Falters in Efforts to Implement the UN Resolution in Libya

By Hugh De Santis

NATO’s management of the UN-sanctioned campaign to take “all necessary measures” to protect Libyan civilians is looking more futile by the day. Reminiscent of Europe’s hapless effort to assert leadership following the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, internal bickering has once again precluded military cohesion and made mockery of the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security […]

Update: NATO activities in Libya on April 21

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Chinese Takeaway

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

While World Bank President Robert Zoellick warns that the world is "one shock away from a full-blown crisis," China has broken ground and taken over the economic future of a country whose nearest island to the U.S. mainland is Bimini, only 50 miles away. The Nassau Guardian editorialized: "The Bahamas has fallen fully into the […]

Atlantic Update 4/22/11

By Klee Aiken

With the White House looking to engage Moscow over tactical nuclear weapons reductions, Russia is out and about with Prime Minister Putin chatting with Vice President Joe Biden and President Medvedev meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Happy Birthday to Belgium on the first birthday of its record breaking stint without a government. Joyeux […]

U.S. and French Submarine Commanders Meet

By Specialist 1st Class Gary Keen, EUCOM

From Specialist 1st Class Gary Keen, EUCOM:  The Commander of the French navy’s Submarine Forces met with Commander Submarine, Allied Naval Forces South