Libya Needs Urgent Help from International Community

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Aug 25, 2024

After a failed attack, Hezbollah’s propaganda seeks to prevent a wider war with Israel

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David Daoud

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Libya Needs Urgent Help from International Community

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Aug 21, 2024

How quickly can Taiwan integrate US weapon systems? Speed is essential to help deter China.

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To better prepare Taiwan to defend itself, the United States needs more transparency into Taipei’s weapons integration challenges.

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Libya Needs Urgent Help from International Community

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Aug 21, 2024

Invasion? What invasion? Putin is downplaying Ukraine’s Kursk offensive

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Peter Dickinson

Vladimir Putin’s efforts to downplay Ukraine’s invasion of Russia have severely dented his strongman image and make a mockery of the West’s escalation fears, writes Peter Dickinson.

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US Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan after addressing reporters at the US Department of State in Washington, DC, on March 13, 2013.

NATOSource

Nov 18, 2013

Libya Needs Urgent Help from International Community

By Anna Lund, MENASource

NATO member states including the United States, Turkey, Italy and the United Kingdom have initiated small-scale military trainings with Libya, all occurring outside the country.

Africa
Libya
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel

NATOSource

Nov 18, 2013

US Extends Patriot Missile Deployment in Turkey

By Chris Carroll and John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes

The United States is extending its commitment of two Patriot missile batteries to guard Turkey from air attacks out of neighboring Syria, defense officials said Monday.

Missile Defense
NATO

New Atlanticist

Nov 18, 2013

NATO’s Next Challenges

By Barry Pavel and Magnus Nordenman

NATO currently finds itself in a period of transition of strategic importance. The combat mission in Afghanistan, which has pre-occupied the Alliance for over a decade, is slowly but surely coming to a close, while transatlantic austerity has triggered significant cuts in defense budgets and a near-mad scramble to find ways to do more, or […]

NATO
Security & Defense

Report

Nov 18, 2013

The security of cities: ecology and conflict on an urbanizing planet

By Peter Engelke

A new report issued jointly by the Atlantic Council and the Stimson Center, The Security of Cities: Ecology and Conflict on an Urbanizing Planet, argues that the environmental security field has yet to incorporate global urbanization, the twenty-first century’s central demographic trend, fully into its purview.

Energy & Environment
National Security
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

NATOSource

Nov 15, 2013

NATO Secretary General Announces Dates for 2014 Summit

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

I am pleased to announce that the next NATO Summit will take place on September 4‑5, 2014.

NATO
Security & Defense

Webcasts

Nov 15, 2013

Webcast: Cyber Conflict and War – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

The Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative will host a panel discussion on “Cyber Conflict and War: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” on November 15, 2013 from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. This panel discussion, moderated by Tom Gjelten of National Public Radio, will examine the decades-long history of cyber conflicts to give context to cyber threats […]

Cybersecurity
Security & Defense
A Polish Leopard II tank participating in NATO Exercise Steadfast Jazz

NATOSource

Nov 14, 2013

NATO’s Future: Back to Basics

By Economist

This is the final stage of Steadfast Jazz 2013, NATO’s biggest live-fire exercise since 2006.

NATO
Northern Europe
A Volga-Dnepr Airlines An-124 transport in SALIS, December 14, 2012

NATOSource

Nov 13, 2013

NATO Helps Provide Relief to Typhoon Ravaged Philippines

By NATO

An Ilyushin ll-76 transport plane from NATO’s Strategic Airlift Interim Solution (SALIS) consortium took off from Billund, Denmark on Monday (11 November 2013) carrying humanitarian relief supplies bound for Tacloban City in the Philippines

NATO
Security & Defense
Meeting of the North Atlantic Council, December 7, 2011

NATOSource

Nov 13, 2013

NATO Approves Turkey’s Request to Extend Deployment of Patriot Missiles

By Adrian Croft and Tulay Karadeniz, Reuters

NATO allies backed keeping Patriot missiles in Turkey on Wednesday, agreeing with Ankara that threats from the civil war in Syria remained serious, an alliance official said.

Germany
Missile Defense
Key Locations in the Baltic Region

NATOSource

Nov 13, 2013

How the US Should Strengthen Security Cooperation with the Baltic Republics

By Luke Coffey, Heritage Foundation

There is ample room for deeper relations between the U.S. and the Baltic states, particularly in joint military training and defense procurement.

NATO
Security & Defense
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