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May 18, 2009

Fighting piracy requires better international cooperation

By Deutsche Welle

From Deutsche Welle: “Bjorn Seibert, a Research Affiliate for Security Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, lists the various international missions deployed: ‘You have the EU’s mission, you have NATO’s mission and then you have two Combined Task Forces led by the United States, Combined Task Force 151 and 150, which operate in the […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

May 18, 2009

Barack and Bibi: Treading Water?

By Don Snow

Israeli Prime Minister Benyimin (Bibi) Netanyahou is coming calling to the White House today. After the self-flagellation of delivering the commencement address at Notre Dame, it may seem a relief for Obama. Alternately, of course, it could produce a second Excedrin headache.

New Atlanticist

May 18, 2009

U.S. Military: Future Scenarios

By Derek Reveron

The U.S. Department of Defense has begun its quadrennial defense review (QDR) with the goal of assessing the threats and challenges facing the United States in order to balance strategies, capabilities and forces.  This is the fourth QDR and the results will not be known or released until early 2010.

New Atlanticist

May 18, 2009

EU Needs a Political Deal with Turkey on Gas

By Borut Grgic and Alexandros Petersen

Delegations from countries as disparate as the United Kingdom and Turkmenistan met in Prague on Friday to promote the co-called Southern Corridor, an energy transit route connecting eager Caspian producers with hungry European consumers.

Energy & Environment European Union

New Atlanticist

May 16, 2009

NATO Should Help in Pakistan

By Leo Michel and Shuja Nawaz

Pakistan needs help.  President Asif Ali Zardari and army chief General Ashfaq Kayani, who were publicly urged last month by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to “recognize the real threats to their country,” have sent a considerable military force to staunch the spreading extremist threat in the Swat region near Afghanistan.

Pakistan

NATOSource

May 15, 2009

French Gap in Interoperability

By strategypage.com

From strategypage.com: “While the French Army has recognized the importance of smart bombs and missiles, they found themselves poorly prepared to make the best use of these weapons when they sent troops to Afghanistan. They had several problems. First, they did not have enough FACs (Forward Air Controllers, teams trained to call in warplanes and […]

NATOSource

May 15, 2009

U.S. pilots train Finns in aerial refueling operations

By Air Force Link

From Air Force Link: “A group of Airmen with the 100th Air Refueling Wing traveled to Tampere, Finland, May 2 to participate in a week-long exercise with Navy and Finnish Air Force F-18 Hornet pilots. The Airmen helped teach the Finnish pilots how to refuel in-air from a KC-135 Stratotanker. The exercise marks the first […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

May 15, 2009

U.S., NATO want Canada to deploy CF-18 fighters

By canada.com

From canada.com: “‘I can tell you from the senior Canadian in this headquarters that I have been asked on several occasions by AFCENT (United States Air Forces Central) and CENTCOM (Central Command), `How can we get Canadian F-18s into the game over here?” said Maj.-Gen. Duff Sullivan. ‘And I’ve told them that that is a […]

NATOSource

May 15, 2009

Preventing A New Crimean War

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

San Francisco State University professor describes geostrategic environment from Moscow’s perspective. From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: “Although Obama’s efforts to ‘reset’ relations with Russia have been encouraging and although Georgia is entering a period of political change, the structural conditions for a great-power confrontation in the Caucasus remain in place. The Crimean War became possible […]

Energy & Environment

NATOSource

May 15, 2009

European security isn’t NATO prerogative – Medvedev | Top Stories from 2009-05-15 | RT

By Russia Today

In interview on TV channel Rossiya, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev challenges the role of NATO and ignores the OSCE. From Russia Today: “The previous set of the European Institutions formed in the 1970s had been providing security in Europe. They’d played their role already. Now we have a range of state unions in Europe. We […]

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