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Mar 18, 2010

NATO Provides Airlift Support to African Union Mission in Somalia

By Allied Command Operations

From Allied Command Operations:  In response to the African Union request for strategic airlift support to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), the USA has conducted airlift missions under the NATO banner in support of the Ugandan troop rotations. The airlift, which commenced on 5 Mar 2010 and was completed on 16 Mar 2010, […]

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Mar 18, 2010

Pro-Western Head of Ukraine’s Naval Forces Sacked

By  rt.com

From rt.com:  Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich has dismissed the country’s Head of Naval forces Igor Tenukh, who allegedly initiated the information war against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea. The decision was published on the president’s official website. During the 2008 war launched by Georgia in South Ossetia, Admiral Igor Tenukh ordered Ukrainian ships to block […]

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New Atlanticist

Mar 18, 2010

Changing Rules of Warfare

By Derek Reveron

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen recently gave a speech in Kansas where he outlined a vision of warfare for the current era. Reflecting on nine years of continuous warfare in Central Asia and twenty years military involvement in Iraq, he proposed three rules that challenge traditional notions of using the […]

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Mar 18, 2010

UN Signs Cooperation Deal with Russia’s Alternative to NATO

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  The UN and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a post-Soviet security group, signed on Thursday a declaration of cooperation between their secretariats. It was signed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and CSTO General Secretary Nikolai Bordyuzha. Ban said the declaration was an important step for the UN to consolidate cooperation […]

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Mar 18, 2010

Lithuania: Additional Security Problems

By the Economist

From the Economist:  Swingeing defence cuts have left Lithuania’s military able to do its NATO duty in Afghanistan, but not to defend the country—something that infuriates the Estonians, who still spend the NATO-mandated 2% of GDP on defence. Lithuania, like the other Baltic states, is now gaining formal contingency plans from NATO and big American […]

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NATOSource

Mar 17, 2010

U.S.-Russia Relations: In Need of a New Reset

By Time

From Time:  [Russia’s envoy to NATO Dimitri] Rogozin puts the matter more bluntly. "Medvedev sincerely believes that Obama can be trusted," he tells TIME. "But that doesn’t mean this opinion is shared at every level, especially the levels where the implementation of their agreements is borne out." This reality — the disconnect between what Medvedev […]

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Mar 17, 2010

What Conclusions Should We Be Drawing from Sunday’s Regional Elections in Russia?

By Nikolas Gvosdev

One of the things that struck me in looking at the results was the similarities to Mexico’s elections back in the day when the Institutionalized Revolutionary Party (PRI) held sway.

NATOSource

Mar 17, 2010

Snubbed by Obama? Join the Club

By the Washington Post

From the Washington Post:  Who has attracted attention in the Obama administration? The answer, so far, seems to be not America’s allies but its competitors, and in some cases its adversaries. If there were a way to measure administration exertion in foreign policy, the meter would show the greatest concentration of energy, beyond the war […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Mar 17, 2010

Reorganization to Place Most U.S. Forces in Afghanistan Under NATO Command

By the AP

From the AP:  A major reorganization of allied forces in Afghanistan will centralize both American and other foreign troops under the direct command of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the senior U.S. and NATO commander in the theater… Vice Adm. Greg Smith, the top military spokesman in Afghanistan, said the reorganization would integrate most of the 20,000 […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Mar 17, 2010

NATO Tensions No Cause for Alarm

By atlantic-community.org

From atlantic-community.org:  NATO has been threatened throughout its existence by diverging interests of its members – or to be precise, by the lack of trust in the solidarity of its members in the light of these diverging interests. The persistent mistrust of some European members concerning the willingness of the United States to risk their […]

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