Category: Blogs

Gates clarifies July deadline and Petraeus discloses data

By Adam Ellick and Sangar Rahimi, the New York Times

From Adam Ellick and Sangar Rahimi, the New York Times: [U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert] Gates took the opportunity to repeat assurances that President Obama’s deadline to begin withdrawing troops was flexible.

Accounts Differ on Fatal NATO Strike on Afghans

By Adam Ellick and Sangar Rahimi, the New York Times

From Adam Ellick and Sangar Rahimi, the New York Times:  Airstrikes by  by NATO forces that killed 12 people on Thursday in northern Afghanistan have produced sharply conflicting accounts

U.S. Air Force assumes command of NATO Baltic air policing mission

By defpro.com

From defpro.com:  The 493rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, deployed from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, assumed command of the NATO Baltic air policing mission Sept. 1 from the Polish air force at Lithuania Air Force Air Base. For the next four months, the squadron, comprising approximately 125 people, is responsible for ensuring the air sovereignty of […]

Lavrov declares Afghan drug trade most important question in NATO-Russian relations

By Sergey Lavrov,  Russian Foreign Ministry

From Sergey Lavrov,  Russian Foreign Ministry:  We expect greater intelligibility from our partners in NATO. The dual existence of the alliance – between the past and the future – has become protracted too long.

NATO selects new Assistant Secretary-General for Defense Investments

By Pierre Tran, Defense News

From Pierre Tran, Defense News:  NATO has appointed Patrick Auroy to one of the six assistant secretary-general posts in the alliance headquarters, where he will be responsible for defense investments, Laurent Teisseire, spokesman for the French Ministry of Defense, said on Sept. 2.

European Militaries Shrinking, Becoming More Useful

By Raymond Pritchett

The Germans are talking about military reform and to be honest, it is actually a very interesting issue to follow. This article can bring you up to speed on some of the issues if you are interested, but for more depth to the debate you’ll need to look elsewhere (and most of it is in […]

Israel and the Iranian Bomb

By Don Snow

The September 2010 edition of The Atlantic features a story on what it represents as Israel’s plan to attack and try to destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities before Iran can get to the point of producing a nuclear weapon–a prospect the Israelis argue is quite imminent, meaning the attack could come quite soon. The article, […]

German general takes command of NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo

By DPA

From DPA: German General Erhard Buehler on Wednesday took command over KFOR, the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in the former Serbian province of Kosovo, replacing a fellow German, General Markus Bentler.

West gives Serbia tough message on Kosovo

By Adam Tanner and Ivana Sekularac, Reuters

What is delaying the OSCE police mission to Kyrgyzstan?

By RIA Novosti