Category: Blogs

NATO’s strategic incoherence costs Libyan lives

By James Lindsay, CNN

From James Lindsay, CNN:  Britain, France, and Italy took a step deeper into the Libyan civil war this week by announcing that they will send military advisers to aid the beleaguered rebels.

NATO Denies Reported Bomb Shortage in Libya

By Pierre Tran, DefenseNews

From Pierre Tran, DefenseNews:  Adm. Giampaolo Di Paola, the chairman of NATO’s military committee, denied that the air operation in Libya was running short of aircraft or munitions.

Obama approves attacks by armed Predators in Libya

By Cheryl Pellerin, American Forces Press Service

From Cheryl Pellerin, American Forces Press Service:  [Secretary of Defense Robert] Gates and Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, briefed reporters at the Pentagon.

EUCOM interested in redeployment of UAVs from Southwest Asia

By Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring

From Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring:  The Pentagon is studying how to expand the use of highly effective combat drone aircraft from the Middle East and Southwest Asia to other commands

Britain seeking deployment of US UAV’s to Libya

By James Blitz, the Financial Times

From James Blitz, the Financial Times:  Liam Fox, Britain’s defence secretary, will travel to the US next week to try to persuade the Obama administration to provide fresh air assets

NATO’s Four Categories of Power

By Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist

From Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist:  Coalitions are fast replacing alliances as the place where real security business is done.

Securing North Africa’s oasis of stability

By J. Peter Pham

As the cloud of uncertainty continues to hover North Africa—with the ultimate outcomes of the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt still to be determined and unrest spreading in Algeria, especially in the Kabylie region, to say nothing of the fate of the revolt in Libya—it is somewhat befuddling that the Obama administration has not done […]

Update: NATO activities in Libya on April 20

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The Franglosphere – No, Not Bad BBC Science Fiction

By Julian Lindley-French

I was in London this week and two things happened that suggest l’albion perfide might be about to do the dirty on both America and France. First, in high-level meetings in the Ministry of Defence British officials confirmed that the disastrous 2010 Strategic Security and Defence Review (Strategic Pretence and Impecunity Review) had been the […]