Category: Blogs

Save NATO: Merge it with CSDP

By Sarwar Kashmeri, the New Atlanticist

From Sarwar Kashmeri, the New Atlanticist:  NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen would like to see NATO become a hub for an anti-missile shield with Russia that protects everyone from Vladivostok to Vancouver.

Economist: “The German question never dies”

By the Economist

From the Economist:  Its sharp-elbowed behaviour during the near-collapse of the euro earlier this year heightened concerns about Germany’s role in the world that have been stirring ever since unification 20 years ago.

Save NATO: Merge it with CSDP

By Sarwar Kashmeri

NATO isn’t working, warns Sarwar Kashmeri, who advocates a U.S, Canadian and EU joint project that would "bridge" the Atlantic alliance with Europe’s fledgling defence and security framework. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has been the most successful military alliance in history. Few people on either side of the Atlantic, or anywhere else in the […]

Obama Appoints Denis McDonough to be Deputy National Security Advisor

By the White House

From the White House:  President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint Denis McDonough as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor. President Obama said, “For years, I have counted on Denis McDonough’s expertise and counsel on national security issues. He possesses a remarkable intellect, irrepressible work ethic, and a sense of collegiality […]

Russia-NATO relations depend on alliance’s strategic concept – Lavrov

By RIA Novosti

Afghan Peace Solution

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

 America’s 17 intelligence agencies have spent more than half a trillion dollars — more than $500,000,000,000 — since 9/11, most of it on the global war on terror, and the Obama administration still believes that if Taliban supremo Mullah Mohammad Omar Akhund were to return to power in Kabul, al-Qaida would be back too — […]

Will the U.S. Lose Europe to Russia?

By John Vinocur, the International Herald Tribune

From John Vinocur, the International Herald Tribune:  Germany and France, meeting with Russia in Deauville, northern France, last week, signaled that they planned to make such three-cornered get-togethers on international foreign policy and security matters routine

U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue

By Huma Yusuf

What began last week as a strategic dialogue between US and Pakistani civilian and military leaders ended in strategic disconnect. Despite the US State Department’s efforts to make Washington’s relationship with Islamabad less one-dimensional – 13 working groups discussed development issues as wide-ranging as water and women’s empowerment – security issues remained the focus of […]

Ankara seeks guarantees on Israel in missile shield talks with US

By Zaman

From Zaman:  Turkey, in talks with the United States over a proposed missile defense system, has asked US officials whether non-NATO countries would have access to intelligence that sensors in the shield would gather

Rasmussen to German Parliament: “NATO is today the most effective peacekeeper in the world”

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  I appreciate the opportunity to answer the question you have put on the table – is NATO a Cold War relic, or an instrument for peace?