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New Atlanticist

Oct 15, 2009

State Department Must Reform or Die

By Mark Safranski

It is generally a bad sign for a Secretary of State so early in an administration to have to come out and deny that they have been marginalized by the White House, as Hillary Clinton felt compelled to do the other day. The denial itself serves as confirmation of the fact.

NATOSource

Oct 15, 2009

NATO mulls Afghan troops, decision hinges on Obama

By Reuters

From Reuters: NATO’s top defence officials will examine proposals on Saturday for a big troop surge to contain Afghanistan’s escalating insurgency but any such move hinges on a decision by the U.S. president, NATO military officials said… Military Committee members told Reuters the response of others in the 28-nation NATO alliance to McChrystal’s call, and […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Oct 15, 2009

NATOSource: Defense Ministers to Discuss Gap in Alliance Capabilities

By NATO

From NATO: [T]he informal working dinner of the NATO Defence Ministers will begin at 7:30 on Thursday [10/22], 7:30 p.m. It will be Ministers only, so they will have a free exchange of views. The focus of the discussion will be on what we call transformation. I think there are two areas where the Secretary […]

NATOSource

Oct 15, 2009

NATOSource: UK Prime Minister Decides to Send More Troops to Afghanistan

By the Office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

From the Office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: [T]o support our plan to train more Afghan soldiers and police, while at the same time maintaining the security of our forces, I have agreed in principle a new force level subject to the following conditions. First, that a new Afghan government demonstrates its […]

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New Atlanticist

Oct 15, 2009

Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize: The View from Europe

By Benjamin Preisler

The announcement of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize has thus far been met mostly with consternation in Europe. As in the U.S., most commentators view his intentions positively but consider the award to be premature, with the President not even a year into his term and having few concrete accomplishments to his name.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Oct 14, 2009

Ankara’s Opportunity to Make South Caucasus Peace

By Borut Grgic

Peace and stability in the South Caucasus has been an elusive project, but this weekend a major breakthrough was achieved with Turkey and Armenia.  The foreign ministers of the two countries met in Switzerland, and in the presence of the U.S. Secretary of State and other European foreign ministers, signed an agreement to open the […]

Turkey

NATOSource

Oct 14, 2009

Russia insists on setting up new medium to discuss European security

By Interfax

From Interfax: Russia has not dropped its plans to develop a new European security treaty and believes Europe needs a new universal medium for discussing its problems, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said. “We believe that not all European security problems can be resolved within the framework of the existing institutions, such as NATO, the OSCE, […]

NATOSource

Oct 14, 2009

Russia must prepare for NATO defeat in Afghanistan, ambassador says

By Deutsche Presse-Agentur

From Deutsche Presse-Agentur: NATO is facing defeat in Afghanistan, and Russia and the states of Central Asia must be ready to pick up the pieces, Russia’s ambassador to NATO said Tuesday.Discussions at a conference in Paris on the future of Afghanistan run by the East-West Institute think tank “have only further enhanced the impression of […]

NATOSource

Oct 14, 2009

US faults Turks for canceling NATO air exercises

By the AP

From the AP: State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Tuesday, however, that “as to the question of whether there was a government that was invited to participate and then removed at the last minute, we think it’s inappropriate for any nation to be removed from an exercise like this at the last minute.” He was […]

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Oct 14, 2009

Pakistan Needs More than Aid

By Harlan Ullman

That no good deed goes unpunished is both cliche and irony. No better illustration can be found than in the uproar that accompanied the House of Representative’s passage last week of the Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill that “authorizes” an additional $1.5 billion a year for five years in non-military aid to Pakistan. “Authorize” is a key word.

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