Category: Blogs

Hooray! The Yanks are going home

By Philip Stephens, the Financial Times

From Philip Stephens, the Financial Times:  Several themes run through every such discussion: one says that Europe’s backyard is becoming a less predictable and more perilous place

NATO Back in the Saddle

By James Joyner, the New Atlanticist

From James Joyner, the New Atlanticist:  In truth, however, the political value in a NATO operation is that the alliance’s name is a stand-in for the developed world

NATO Back in the Saddle

By James Joyner

NATO’s operations in Libya got off to a rocky start. Although the venerable treaty organization’s member countries — principally Britain, France, and the United States — were dropping bombs on Muammar al-Qaddafi’s military as soon as the ink was dry on the March 17 U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing a no-fly zone over Libya, as […]

Clinton: Two separate missile defense systems, one objective

By Judy Dempsey, the New York Times

From Judy Dempsey, the New York Times:  At the meeting, NATO discussed the controversial issue of U.S. plans to deploys parts of a missile shield in Eastern Europe.

Stop the Blame Game

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times:  After more than two weeks under attack by NATO forces, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi is still slaughtering his people and showing no sign that he plans to give up.

US servicemen play key roles aboard French carrier

By Slobodan Lekic, the AP

From Slobodan Lekic, the AP: [E]ven though the U.S. has withdrawn its forces from the front lines of the NATO campaign, a handful of Americans serving on this French navy carrier [Charles de Gaulle] remain at the forefront of the action.

French Defense Minister wants allies to target “decision centers”

By Reuters

From Reuters:  France is pushing for NATO approval to extend military strikes on Muammar Gaddafi’s army to strategic logistical targets, to try to break a deadlock in Libya’s civil war as the civilian death toll mounts.

NATO and Ukraine discuss security cooperation

By NATO

NATO and Georgia reaffirm each other

By NATO

Welcome to NATO Operation Protecting Disunity

By Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist

From Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist: The statement is a masterpiece of NATO speak and thus needs interpreting into plain English. This is something that has not been seen at NATO Headquarters since the Scottish occupied it back in the early naughties – it was plain but incomprehensible. … The “valuable” contribution made by OUP members […]