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Sep 10, 2009

NATO’s Frank Boland meet with Georgian Defense Minister

By milaz.info

From milaz.info: Head of Force Planning Department of NATO Defence Policy and Planning Division, Frank Boland, met with Georgian Minister of Defense Bacho Akhalaia, Trend reported. Boland heads a group of appraisers in Georgia. The visit aims to appreciate obligations envisaged by annual national program and planning and survey. Frank Boland will hold meetings with […]

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NATOSource

Sep 10, 2009

NATOSource: Secretary General Rasmussen; NATO Can Not Exit Afghanistan

By NATO

From NATO: we must stay in Afghanistan as long as necessary, and we will stay as long as necessary. Let no one think that a run for the exits is an option. It is not. My view on this is very clear. What we are doing now is very difficult and very costly. But if […]

NATOSource

Sep 10, 2009

NATOSource: Estonian President’s Remarks on NATO and CyberSecurity

By the Office of the President of Estonia

From the Office of the President of Estonia: While creating “cyber Article 5” preparedness (which is becoming NATO’s “niche” in the global cyber security agenda as opposed to the EU or COE), it is important to see collective defence as part of cyber deterrence in a wider sense (involving law enforcement, information infrastructure providers and […]

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New Atlanticist

Sep 10, 2009

Does France Deserve NATO Command Role?

By James Joyner

Nile Gardiner, a former researcher for Margaret Thatcher who heads up a center named in her honor at Heritage Foundation, writes in the Telegraph that “The French do not deserve a command role in NATO.”  He calls the news that French general Stéphane Abrial will be head Allied Command Transformation “a further weakening of the […]

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New Atlanticist

Sep 10, 2009

Gordon Brown Right on Afghanistan

By Harlan Ullman

Last Friday, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivered a major address on Afghanistan here in London. The speech was to mark a major change in British policy meant to refocus British efforts in this war and bring more resources across government to bear. The media did not favorably review the speech in part because it […]

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New Atlanticist

Sep 10, 2009

NATO Can Survive Afghanistan Failure

By James Joyner

In my latest for The National Interest, I argue that, despite the constant urging otherwise by former  Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO can survive failing in Afghanistan.

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NATOSource

Sep 9, 2009

NATOSource: NATO Troops Rescue NYT Reporter

By the New York Times

From the New York Times: Stephen Farrell, a New York Times reporter held captive by militants in northern Afghanistan, was freed in a military commando raid early Wednesday, but his Afghan interpreter, a British commando and an Afghan woman were killed in the raid. Gunmen seized Mr. Farrell and his interpreter, Sultan Munadi, on Saturday […]

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New Atlanticist

Sep 9, 2009

Chinese Autocracy vs. American Democracy

By James Joyner

Thomas Friedman, heretofore perhaps the world’s leading evangelist for free market globalism, devotes his latest column to explaining why Communist China’s system is preferable to ours.

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New Atlanticist

Sep 9, 2009

Looking Down the Afghan Road

By Don Snow

What must the United States do in Afghanistan in order to be able to maintain at the end of our overt military involvement that we have succeeded?

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New Atlanticist

Sep 9, 2009

Germany is ISAF’s Weakest Link

By Joshua Foust

The Bundeswehr has evolved from refusing to kill known militants to calling in air strikes based on flimsy evidence. The German deployment has been a complete failure. The Bundeswehr is consistently undermining the allied tasks in Afghanistan and should either reevaluate or withdraw.

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