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New Atlanticist

Mar 29, 2011

Cartoon: We Can’t Afford U.S. Institute of Peace With all the Wars

By James Joyner

In the above cartoon, Politico‘s Matt Wuerker illustrates the funding disparity between the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Institute of Peace. Despite a budget of only $44 million, a small fraction of the costs of the Tomahawks fired by the U.S. in the first few hours of Operation Odyssey Dawn, there have been calls to eliminate USIP entirely. […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 28, 2011

NATO Libya Roundtable: Endgame?

By James Joyner

As NATO and its constituent states sort through the conflicting policy goals and logistics of the mission in Libya, some members of the Atlantic Council Strategic Advisors Group have offered some insights. What is the coalition’s endgame in Libya? There is considerable ambiguity about the ultimate endgame of coalition operations in Libya. The coalition military […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 28, 2011

NATO Libya Roundtable: A More Martial Europe?

By James Joyner

As NATO and its constituent states sort through the conflicting policy goals and logistics of the mission in Libya, some members of the Atlantic Council Strategic Advisors Group have offered some insights. From Bob Kagan’s "Power and Paradise" to Bob Gates’ February 2010 speech bemoaning the "demilitarization of Europe," American defense experts have long derided […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 28, 2011

NATO Libya Roundtable: Command and Control

By James Joyner

As NATO and its constituent states sort through the conflicting policy goals and logistics of the mission in Libya, some members of the Atlantic Council Strategic Advisors Group have offered some insights. NATO member states have struggled for days to resolve the debate within the Alliance about the proper role for NATO in the coalition […]

NATOSource

Mar 28, 2011

German ships rejoin NATO command, but not Libya operation

By DPA

From DPA:  Two German navy vessels in the Mediterranean are to be placed back under NATO command, a week after the military alliance became involved in the Libya conflict, a defence ministry spokesman said in Berlin Monday.

NATOSource

Mar 28, 2011

North Africa is Europe’s problem – not Obama’s

By the Editors of the Observer

From the Editors of the Observer:  Committees are sometimes the fairest way to decide policy; rarely, if ever, are they the most efficient. As a system for conducting wars, their shortcomings are obvious.

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Mar 28, 2011

When an Ally’s in Trouble, America Responds

By Robert Bracknell

On March 11, America’s perennial ally Japan suffered the double calamity of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and a powerful ensuing tsunami. Resultant electrical failures at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant caused reactor cooling systems to fail, resulting in overheating, reactor explosions and the release of radiation into the atmosphere. So far, about 7,500 are […]

NATOSource

Mar 28, 2011

Commander of US and Allied forces explains dual roles

By James Stavridis, EUCOM

From James Stavridis, EUCOM:  Not surprisingly, I’ve received a lot of questions about what is happening in Libya in both my capacity as Commander of the US European Command (USEUCOM) and as the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR).

NATOSource

Mar 28, 2011

NATO counter piracy flotilla welcomes Chinese navy taskforce commander

By Allied Command Operations

From Allied Command Operations:  [This] weekend the Commander of NATO maritime forces conducting counter piracy operation Ocean Shield, Commodore Michiel Hijmans (Royal Netherlands Navy), gave a warm welcome to his Chinese counterpart, Commodore Han Xiaoh

NATOSource

Mar 28, 2011

Merkel’s government loses regional election and credibility abroad

By John Vincour, the International Herald Tribune

From John Vincour, the International Herald Tribune:  Two thoughts about Angela Merkel’s weekend of political debacle

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