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New Atlanticist

Jun 10, 2010

Defending the Afghanistan Experts

By James Joyner

Some anonymous attendees of Central Command’s Af-Pak conference have penned highly critical blog posts, which have appeared at two pre-eminent national security blogs, Christian Bleuer’s  Ghosts of Alexander and Andrew Exum’s Abu Muqawama.

New Atlanticist

Jun 10, 2010

NATO a Permanent Alliance: Introduction

By Stanley Sloan

It has become popular in recent years to argue that NATO is no longer serving the interests of either the Europeans or the Americans.  Many of these arguments end with the suggestion that the European Union should take over responsibility for defense of European interests, variously accomplished by the United States withdrawing from NATO and […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 10, 2010

Collaboration in Space for International Global Maritime Awareness (C-SIGMA)

By George Guy Thomas

National Security Presidential Directive-41/Homeland Security Presidential Directive-13 establishes U.S. policy for enhancing our national security and protecting our interests in the maritime domain. Specifically, it directs that maritime domain awareness (MDA) efforts be undertaken "to develop an enhanced capability to identify threats to the maritime domain as early and as distant from our shores as […]

STOCK - EU

New Atlanticist

Jun 9, 2010

European Model Down – But Too Early To Count Out

By Kurt Volker

Why does the world today no longer see Europe as a model, as it seemed to do only a few years ago? It’s simple: The world can’t be expected to believe in a European model that Europeans don’t seem to believe in themselves. What is the “European model?” It seems to consist of some combination […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 8, 2010

Georgia Drifts Away from the West

By Matthew Czekaj

The West is losing Georgia, and the West has only itself to blame.  Since the April 2008 NATO Summit in Bucharest, at which the Alliance declared that Georgia (and Ukraine) would become a member, Europe and the United States have done almost nothing to more fully integrate the Caucasian country into the transatlantic community.  The […]

European Union International Organizations

Issue Brief

Jun 7, 2010

Operationalizing the Comprehensive Approach

By Julian Lindley-French

Julian Lindley-French, member of the Strategic Advisors Group (SAG), writes in the latest SAG Issue Brief about the need for the Strategic Concept to correctly address the issue of the Comprehensive Approach, or political-military cooperation. Download the PDF

NATO Security & Defense

Issue Brief

Jun 7, 2010

Reforming and Modernizing NATO Defense Education

By Harlan Ullman

Strategic Advisors Group (SAG) members Harlan Ullman and Julian Lindley-French implore NATO to innovate and modernize its defense education construct in the latest SAG Issue Brief. Download the PDF

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jun 7, 2010

An Indian Perspective on NATO’s Global Role

By Jason Harmala

K. Subrahmanyam, one of India’s leading strategic analysts and journalists, appears in the latest installment of Atlantic Council senior fellow Sarwar Kashmeri’s New Atlanticist Podcast Series to discuss India’s perception of NATO, as well as the possibility of India participating in a greater global security role with NATO.

New Atlanticist

Jun 7, 2010

An Aiken Solution in Afghanistan?

By Don Snow

This week marked a dubious watershed in the U.S. military effort in Iraq and Afghanistan, as the number of American forces in Afghanistan passed the troop total in Iraq. The Iraq side of the ledger is the result of the continuing withdrawal of American combat forces from that country, and Admiral Mike Mullen promised today […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 4, 2010

Maritime Security Wake-Up Call

By James Joyner

"Our ports and waterways remain woefully vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Nearly a decade after 9/11 revolutionized aviation security, we are long overdue to apply many of those lessons learned to maritime security." 

New Atlanticist

Jun 4, 2010

End Of This World?

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

North Korea can target, attack and sink a South Korean warship, kill 46 of the South Korean crew but South Korea cannot retaliate without triggering a barrage of shells from North Korea’s 11,000 artillery tubes that can lay waste Seoul, a capital city of 11 million. North Korea is also a rogue nuclear power and […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 4, 2010

Gulf Oil Spill A 9/11 Wake-Up Call?

By Harlan Ullman

The explosion on Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent torrent of oil pouring into the gulf could be the United States’ worst environmental catastrophe.

Energy & Environment

Issue Brief

Jun 3, 2010

International Maritime Safety and Security Exchange

By Harry G. Ulrich III

An International Maritime Safety and Security Exchange is urgently needed to improve efficiency and security through increased domain awareness and expedited information sharing, says retired Admiral Harry G. Ulrich III, former Commander of  U.S. Naval Forces in Europe. Download the PDF

Maritime Security Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jun 3, 2010

NATO or Israel?

By James Joyner

Israel’s attack on a Gaza aid flotilla, killing nine, has earned near-universal condemnation, with even sympathetic observers terming it the act of a bully, tone deaf, staggeringly stupid, tactically incompetent, a major tactical blunder, a moral victory for Hamas, and an unqualified disaster for Israel’s reputation. But Israel is rather accustomed to international scorn and […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 2, 2010

Democratic Change It’s Not

By Borut Grgic

There are basically two schools of thought when it comes to explaining what happened in Kyrgyzstan in April. Proponents of the democracy school will argue that what we witnessed was a legitimate uprising against an unjust and oppressive regime set up by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. The other school, the realists, will explain the April events […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 2, 2010

Russia: A NATO Member?

By Donald Bandler and Jakub Kulhanek

Apart from a now customary display of Russia’s military might, the recent commemoration of the victory over Nazi Germany in Moscow witnessed a strange spectacle of NATO troops marching on Red Square.  The presence of its erstwhile enemy has stirred controversy in Russia.

New Atlanticist

Jun 1, 2010

NSS Review: Vision and Questions

By Ioan Mircea Pascu

The Obama administration’s National Security Strategy is even more important because it comes at a crucial time: the international system is heavily affected by economic and financial crisis, conflict, disorder and successive natural disasters.

New Atlanticist

Jun 1, 2010

Pakistani Paradoxes

By Harlan Ullman

Pakistan has become the center of a vortex whose swirling and powerful forces threaten to disrupt far more than that country and the South Asian region.

Issue Brief

Jun 1, 2010

NATO, Terrorism and Irregular Threats

By Sebastian Gorka and Julian Lindley-French

In the latest Issue Brief, Strategic Advisors Group (SAG) members Sebastian Gorka and Julian Lindley-French discuss NATO’s role in 21st Century warfare as it moves to address non-traditional threats. Download the PDF

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jun 1, 2010

NSS Review: How Will It Be Managed?

By Laura Hall

The Obama National Security Strategy was released on May 27. Such a broad document inevitably includes vague words like “engage” and “ensure” and “seek to,” that describe without defining.

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