Technology & Innovation

How NATO Can Revitalize Its Role

By Fred Kempe, the New Atlanticist

From Fred Kempe, the New Atlanticist:  As America’s willingness and capability to act unilaterally declines, any U.S. president will find himself increasingly drawn to NATO as an even more vital tool for foreign and defense policy

Transatlantic leaders rate Greece as top candidate to be removed from NATO

In a just released Atlantic Council-Foreign Policy survey, experts voted Greece as the country they were most likely to “kick out of NATO.”

Cyber Security and the Need for New Approaches

By Franklin Kramer

Cyber as a critical facilitator of the global world is well recognized and the concomitant importance of a safe and secure cyber system is equally understood. But the continued and highly successful attacks on cyber systems in recent years have undercut any sense of real security.  Just to state a few: the US Department of Defense […]

Turkey chooses NATO and the West

By Barçın Yinanç, Hurriyet Daily News

From Barçın Yinanç, Hurriyet Daily News:  Turkey’s decision to host an early warning radar as part of NATO’s nuclear defense system is a sign of the country’s realignment with the West, says Professor Mustafa Aydın.

Why the Obama Administration’s Drone War May Soon Reach a Tipping Point

By James Joyner

In a speech Monday at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, John Brennan, President Obama’s counter-terrorism advisor, made a forthright defense of the drone war currently being conducted against Islamic militants in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia.

House panel blocking Pentagon’s retirement of Global Hawk drones

By Zach Rosenberg, Flightglobal

From Zach Rosenberg, Flightglobal:  The House Armed Services Committee has made the first move to reverse the US Air Force’s controversial decision to retire the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30 fleet.

US and Russia discuss hotline for cyber incidents

By Ellen Nakashima, the Washington Post

NATO’s ‘bleak future of military marginalization and trans-Atlantic rancor’

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times: [N]o matter how important the stakes, European militaries are unable to conduct sustained air operations on their own, even in their own neighborhood.

Our Pre-industrial Cyber Future: Is the Smart Grid Setting Us Up For a 200-Year Crash?

By Jason Healey

Is it possible, as we rush to implement energy-saving Smart Grid technologies, that we are building a system so vulnerable that a cyber disruption would reduce us to pre-industrial days? This was the topic of a recent panel at the RSA computer security conference and seems, at first look, to be eye-rolling hyperbole. As no one has […]

NATO Sees Flaws in Air Campaign Against Qaddafi

By Eric Schmitt, the New York Times

From Eric Schmitt, the New York Times:   Despite widespread praise in Western capitals for NATO’s leadership of the air campaign in Libya, a confidential NATO assessment paints a sobering portrait of the alliance’s ability