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NATOSource

May 28, 2009

Euro force, NATO overlap

By Washington Times

From Washington Times: “For example, the two jostled for helicopters badlyneeded for both the NATO mission in Afghanistan and the EU mission in Chad in early 2008.‘[It] turned into a beauty contest between NATO and the EU,’ Mr. Whitney said.”

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

May 28, 2009

Casey: Current Tempo Unsustainable

By James Joyner

General George Casey, speaking tonight at the Atlantic Council, clarified his widely quoted remarks that “we’re going to have 10 Army and Marine units deployed for a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan,” insisting that he was not making policy but doing his job to “organize, train, and equip” the force for possible contingences. 

New Atlanticist

May 28, 2009

Jones: North Korea Nukes ‘Not an Imminent Threat’

By James Joyner

National Security Advisor Jim Jones declared in a speech to the Atlantic Council that the recent testing of a nuclear device and firing of Taepodong missiles by North Korea “are not an imminent threat” to the United States or the regions because “they have a long way to go” in perfecting the technology to weaponize […]

Korea

New Atlanticist

May 28, 2009

National Security Advisor Jones: USA Safer Under Obama

By James Joyner

In recent weeks, former Vice President Dick Cheney has repeatedly proclaimed that changes in U.S. national security policy ordered by President Obama have made the country less safe.  In a speech at the Atlantic Council that was his first domestic address, Obama’s national security advisor, General Jim Jones, said the opposite is true

New Atlanticist

May 28, 2009

How Do They Know That?

By Banning Garrett

There is an all-too-common practice in Washington punditry of attributing strategic intentions to other countries without any apparent evidence.  A recent example is the column by Dan Blumenthal and Robert Kagan in the Washington Post, “What to Do About North Korea.”  

Energy & Environment

NATOSource

May 27, 2009

NATO-Russia Council to Meet at Ambassadors Level in Brussels

By ITAR-TASS

From ITAR-TASS: “The Wednesday meeting of the NATO-Russia Council will be the second after the resumption of its work (April 29) after the South Ossetian conflict. According to Rogozin, “the weather in our relation is far from summer.” This situation has been aggravated “by the absurd decision of the Alliance to expel two Russian career […]

New Atlanticist

May 27, 2009

In the Shadow of NATO Exercises in Georgia: How Moscow Stopped Worrying and Decided to Embrace NATO

By Donald Bandler and Jakub Kulhanek

As you are reading these lines, the NATO-sponsored Cooperative Longbow 09 – Cooperative Lancer 09 exercises are underway in Georgia. Although they were announced several months ago, are in their fourth iteration, and will be restricted to training peacekeepers, they have already provoked much controversy.   Moscow’s demand that the exercises in a country until recently […]

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

May 27, 2009

The Greatest National Security Threat

By Harlan Ullman

Last Thursday’s face-off between President Barack Obama speaking at the National Archives and former Vice President Dick Cheney shortly thereafter at the American Enterprise Institute brilliantly exposed what is arguably the greatest threat to the nation. Yet, understandably, no one took notice.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

May 26, 2009

Czech pilots first in action in Baltic

By Baltic Review

From Baltic Review: “Czech pilots of the Jas-39 Gripen fighters who have protected the airspace of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia within NATO since May were used for the first time on Thursday, spokesman David Schreier from the command Air Policing told CTK .They intervened against a civilian plane that violated the no-fly border zone between […]

NATOSource

May 26, 2009

Discontent Rises Sharply Among Russian Troops

By washingtonpost.com

From washingtonpost.com: “Retired generals and nationalist politicians have accused Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of scaling back Russia’s military ambitions by essentially giving up on trying to maintain an army capable of confronting NATO.”

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