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New Atlanticist

Jan 6, 2010

Strategic Incompetence: The Greater Threat?

By Harlan Ullman

To most Americans, with deference to climate change and Iran, the major national security threat to the nation emanates from al-Qaida. Yet strategic incompetence on our part may be a greater danger. This characteristic is not new.

NATOSource

Jan 5, 2010

Poles Wary of Nord Stream Pact

By Global Post

From Global Post: History suggests that when Russia and Germany announce a deal that is slightly too sweet, Poland has reason to be wary. Which is why the Polish foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, acidly dubbed a plan to build an underwater natural gas pipeline from Russia’s Siberian gas fields to Germany’s Baltic coast “the Molotov-Ribbentrop […]

Energy & Environment European Union

NATOSource

Jan 5, 2010

Bulgaria Sending More Troops to Afghanistan

By the AP

From the AP: Bulgaria says it will send 30 more troops to the NATO-led force in Afghanistan early next year. The government said in a statement Wednesday the troops will join a Bulgarian unit guarding the airport in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. Bulgaria currently has 497 troops in Afghanistan, with 270 of them […]

NATOSource

Jan 5, 2010

French Fighters Start Baltic Air Police Mission

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: Four French Air Force Mirage 2000 fighters have started a four-month NATO mission to patrol the skies over Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said Monday. A French unit, comprised of 150 personnel, took over the rotating role of patrolling the Baltic airspace from Germany… Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia reached […]

NATOSource

Jan 5, 2010

Afghanistan’s NATO force needs top civilian: UN

By AFP

From AFP: The NATO-led international security force in Afghanistan should appoint a senior civilian official to help improve political and development coordination, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said in a report released Monday. The report also stressed the need to beef up the international coordination structure in the war-torn country “under a United Nations umbrella.” Ban […]

NATOSource

Jan 5, 2010

Oil Feud Reflects Growing Rift Between Russia and Belarus, Once Close Allies

By the New York Times

From the New York Times: The oil price dispute that erupted over the weekend between Russia and Belarus has been depicted as a threat to European energy supplies — a development that has become something of an annual cold weather ritual. The greater threat, however, seems to be to relations between the two countries, often […]

Energy & Environment

New Atlanticist

Jan 5, 2010

What Yemen Tells Us About Afghanistan

By Douglas Farah

The recent and growing attention to the critical situation in Yemen, where al Qaeda’s presence is spreading and the government is weak and does not control much of the physical space, is perhaps the best argument for pursuing a vigorous Afghanistan policy.

Yemen

New Atlanticist

Jan 5, 2010

Assessing the Thwarted Christmas Attack

By Bernard Finel

The details of the thwarted attack on Northwest 253 on Christmas are still emerging.  Nevertheless, there are several issues worth exploring even as investigations continue.  Many commentators seem to feel that this event requires a major rethinking of our approach to counter-terrorism. 

New Atlanticist

Jan 5, 2010

Time to Retire the Russia Reset Button

By Nikolas Gvosdev

In 2010, one New Year’s resolution for the Obama administration would be to retire the entire “Russia reset” meme. From its ill-omened launch with the presentation of a button by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov – inscribed in Latin (not Cyrillic) letters with a Russian word that implies a party […]

Russia

New Atlanticist

Jan 5, 2010

Progress on the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

By Alexandros Petersen

Alexandros Petersen, a nonresident senior fellow at the Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, was interviewed by Azerbaijan’s Today.az on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

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