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New Atlanticist

Mar 17, 2010

Is the United States a Serious Nation?

By Harlan Ullman

To many, THE issue confronting the United States is a government that is dysfunctional and even badly broken. To others, the immense and swelling fiscal debt and deficits must redressed before the nation slips into bankruptcy. Still others argue that values are the centerpiece of America and unless differences over guns, gays, gestation periods and […]

NATOSource

Mar 16, 2010

Duma Will Not Ratify Arms Treaty if Link to Missile Defense Omitted – Gryzlov

By Interfax

From Interfax:  Russian State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov said the Duma would not ratify the new strategic arms treaty with the United States if it does not seal the link with missile defense. "State Duma deputies participate in the drafting of the START-II treaty. We will not ratify it, if it does not take into […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Mar 16, 2010

U.S. Decision on Modernization of Nuclear Weapons Impacts Arsenal in Europe

By Spiegel

From Spiegel:  Germany’s foreign minister has called for the removal of Cold War legacy nuclear weapons being stored here, but some in Washington may have other plans. The US Department of Energy is requesting a budget of close to $2 billion to modernize the country’s oldest models of nuclear weapons, including those being kept in […]

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Mar 16, 2010

NATO Transformation on the Cheap

By James Joyner

General Stéphane Abrial, Commander Allied Command Transformation (ACT), declared that, "With defense budgets under growing competition from other lines of public expenditure it is therefore imperative that we are able to assure our publics that we are wasting nothing, that we have not spared ourselves any necessary reform and ask for nothing that is not […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 16, 2010

Ukraine’s Success Story

By Edward Lucas

The British journalist Edward Lucas speaks on the need for Ukraine to choose between the Russian dictatorships of the law and the European rule of law.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Mar 16, 2010

Opposition Leader Seeks Clarification on Sweden’s NATO Ties

By the Local

From the Local:  Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin has demanded clarification from the government over Sweden‘s relationship to the NATO military alliance. In an open letter to Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Foreing Minister Carl Bildt, Sahlin claimed that "key ministers within the government are pushing different positions on Swedish cooperation with NATO." Sahlin, together […]

NATOSource

Mar 16, 2010

Military Cooperation Workshop for NATO Partners

By Allied Command Operations

From Allied Command Operations:  NATO partner nations will be taking part in the 2010 Military Cooperation Coordination Workshop in Prague from March 22-25. This is the second workshop to be led by the Military Cooperation Division, with the goal of giving partner nation representatives an opportunity to provide direct input to the development of 2011 work plans and […]

NATOSource

Mar 15, 2010

Germany Doubles Arms Exports

By Deutche Welle

From Deutche Welle:  Germany doubled the amount of its arms it sold abroad in 2004-2009, compared to that exported during the previous five-year period, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released Monday. Germany is the world’s third leading exporter of conventional weaponry. Most of the German exports were armored […]

NATOSource

Mar 15, 2010

Ukraine and Russia to Resume Joint Naval Exercises

By ITAR-TASS

From ITAR-TASS:  Exercises of the Ukrainian Navy and the Russian Black Sea Fleet will be resumed after a seven-year interval. As the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported on Friday, a conference on preparations of the joint command and staff computer exercise “Fairway of Peace-2010” scheduled for June 2010 was held in Sevastopol […]

Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Mar 15, 2010

NATO-EU Partnership: Small Obstacles Loom Large

By James Joyner

There’s a growing consensus that NATO and the EU must strengthen their cooperation on military planning. Yet the chief obstacles to doing so — they rhyme with Freece and Gurkey — are so taboo Allied leaders are reluctant to mention them by name.

European Union International Organizations
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