Category: Blogs

Turkey Seeks Command of NATO Missile Shield

By Marc Champion, the Wall Street Journal

David Cameron: End is in sight for Afghan mission

By Andrew Porter, the Telegraph

From Andrew Porter, the Telegraph:  A Nato summit later this week will mark the beginning of the end of Britain’s involvement in Afghanistan, David Cameron said tonight. The Prime Minister said combat forces would be out of the region in five years’ time. In a speech in the City of London he claimed the Government […]

Holbrooke: NATO summit a turning point in Afghan war

By Chris Allbritton, Reuters

From Chris Allbritton, Reuters:  The NATO summit in Lisbon this weekend will mark a turning point in the prosecution of the war in Afghanistan as it lays out a roadmap to end combat operations by 2014, the top U.S. envoy to the region said on Monday.

AWACS to support NATO maritime counter-terrorism operation

By Allied Command Operations

From Allied Command Operations:  NATO E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft from the NATO Air Base in Geilenkirchen Germany, are going to support Operation ACTIVE ENDEAVOUR (OAE), NATO’s maritime counter-terrorism operation in the Mediterranean

Obama’s Five Challenges at Lisbon

By Ian Brzezinski

On Friday, President Obama will convene with NATO and E.U. leaders in Lisbon. These summit meetings take place as the trans-Atlantic community is beleaguered by the war in Afghanistan, financial crises, and an increasing sense that the United States and Europe are drifting apart. If the president is to reinvigorate trans-Atlantic solidarity and U.S. leadership, […]

Obama’s Five Challenges at Lisbon

By Ian Brzezinski, the International Herald Tribune

From Ian Brzezinski, the International Herald Tribune:  On Friday, President Obama will convene with NATO and E.U. leaders in Lisbon.

The Case for a NATO Missile Defense

By Ivo Daalder, the International Herald Tribune

From Ivo Daalder, the International Herald Tribune:  When the 28 NATO allies gather in Lisbon on Friday, one of the most important issues on the agenda will be how to address a real and growing danger to the trans-Atlantic region: the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.

NATO, Russia agree boost cooperation in Afghan war

By Slobodan Lekicby, the AP

From Slobodan Lekicby, the AP:  NATO and Russia are ready to conclude a series of agreements designed to boost cooperation in the Afghan war, a senior U.S. official said Monday. These include expanding the current arrangement that enables NATO to ship non-lethal supplies from Europe to Afghanistan overland through Russia, said the official who asked […]

NATO’s ‘Open Door’

By Leo Michel

Since 1999, 12 nations from the Baltics to the Balkans graduated from partnership with NATO to membership. Hence, it’s a safe bet that NATO’s new Strategic Concept, when unveiled at the Lisbon Summit on Nov. 19-20, will reaffirm the "open door" policy that "no European democratic country whose admission would fulfill the (Washington) Treaty’s objectives […]