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NATOSource

Apr 23, 2013

NATO condemns ‘in the strongest possible terms… North Korea’s provocative actions’

By NATO

NATOSource

Apr 22, 2013

Barroso: Alliance ‘between Europe and US is not against’ China

By Department of State

From Department of State:  Excerpt from remarks by European Commission President Manuel Barroso with Secretary of State John Kerry at meeting with European Commission Fellows.

Event Recap

Apr 19, 2013

The United States Should Reform Defense Cooperation with Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia

By Jason Harmala

With a number of political systems in the Middle East upended by the Arab Spring and increasing concerns about military-to-military relationships with transitioning countries, the United States has a unique opportunity to reexamine and reform its defense cooperation with Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia in particular. On April 19, the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle […]

Report

Apr 19, 2013

A New Deal: Reforming US Defense Cooperation with Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia

By George Casey and Jim Kolbe

Former US Army Chief George Casey and Congressman Jim Kolbe argue that the transitions in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia will be reversible unless and until their security agencies are better equipped to carry out their functions without abusing citizen rights or interfering in politics. A New Deal: Reforming US Defense Cooperation with Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia […]

Libya North Africa

New Atlanticist

Apr 18, 2013

How to End the War in Syria

By Rajan Menon

There have been persistent rumors that Jabhat al-Nusra, among the most effective militias fighting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s regime, is linked to Al Qaeda. That connection has now been confirmed. The head of al-Nusra’s Syrian branch, Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, has declared his organization’s “allegiance” to Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda’s leader.

Russia Syria
Major General Charles Gurganus

Event Recap

Apr 17, 2013

General Gurganus: There’s Still More to Do in Afghanistan

With ISAF’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014 fast approaching, it is useful to look back and see what failures and successes there have been. Have certain challenges been overcome? How do the Afghans see ISAF’s mission? On April 17, the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted Major General Charles Gurganus, commanding general, […]

Afghanistan International Security Assistance Force

Event Recap

Apr 17, 2013

Strategy Session on Future of US-Europe Relations with Mircea Geoana

On April 17, the Atlantic Council hosted Ambassador Mircea Geoană, Romania’s former foreign minister and ambassador to the United States, for a strategy session about the future of the US-European relationship in an era of budget austerity and emerging security challenges. 

New Atlanticist

Apr 17, 2013

Stuxnet and the Dawn of Algorithmic Warfare

By Jason Healey

Though autonomous, destructive robots are a long-time, hackneyed science fiction plot, for some time, this new kind of warfare has been shifting from yesterday’s movie to today’s reality. But unforeseen by the imaginations of both headline and science fiction writers, it was not a missile-laden drone or humanoid Terminator that introduced this new kind of […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Apr 16, 2013

NATO’s Evolving Partnership Portfolio in Asia

By Richard Weitz, World Policy Review

From Richard Weitz, World Policy Review:  NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen recently undertook a week-long visit to Japan and South Korea, highlighting NATO’s growing role in Asian security in partnership with nonmember governments.

New Atlanticist

Apr 16, 2013

To Stop North Korean Cyber Attacks, Start in Beijing

By Jason Healey

The recent cyber attacks on South Korea highlight four truths of cyber conflicts as they have actually been fought. The implications of three of them are obvious, the fourth not yet so. Such conflicts are disruptive, but far from warfare. And cyber conflicts are both easier to predict than popular myth has it and the […]

China Cybersecurity

Event Recap

Apr 15, 2013

Strategy Session with Georgian Deputy Defense Minister Levan Dolidze

By Jason Harmala

On April 15, the Atlantic Council hosted Levan Dolidze, first deputy defense minister of Georgia, for a strategy session to discuss Georgia’s ongoing defense reform, bilateral defense cooperation with the United States, and Georgia’s role and future in NATO. Levan Dolidze discussed multiple security issues and shared his perspectives on the modernization of Georgian forces. […]

Breedlove roundtable

Event Recap

Apr 15, 2013

Strategy Session with SACEUR Nominee General Breedlove

By Jason Harmala

On April 15, 2013, the Atlantic Council hosted General Philip M. Breedlove, President Barack Obama’s nominee for Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) and commander, US European Command (EUCOM), for a strategy session to discuss the challenges he would encounter in his new role.

NATOSource

Apr 12, 2013

Secretary General: NATO’s partnership with South Korea is ‘young,’ but ‘has great potential’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

New Atlanticist

Apr 12, 2013

There’s No North Korea Crisis

By Robert A. Manning

From the hysterical TV portrayals of goose-stepping North Korean troops, breathless news reports of North Korean warnings of war, and maps depicting the range of imminent missile launches (complete with retired U.S. generals explaining the targets), you might think there is a crisis on the Korean Peninsula. But there is no crisis, only a farce.This […]

Korea

NATOSource

Apr 11, 2013

SACEUR nominee: ‘We cannot rebalance or re-pivot towards Asia without Europe’

By Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes

From Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes:  Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove told a Senate panel considering his nomination to lead U.S. and NATO forces in Europe that he’s committed to continue building on and maintaining critical gains in interoperability achieved with European allies over the past 12 years of war.

Event Recap

Apr 11, 2013

Maintaining Air Dominance in the Face of New Challenges

On April 11, the Atlantic Council Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted a discussion with the Commander of the United States Air Force’s Air Combat Command (ACC), General Gilmary Michael Hostage, III.

Economy & Business Macroeconomics

New Atlanticist

Apr 11, 2013

More Self-Sufficient Cities in a 3D Printing World

By Neal Peirce

There has been plenty of hype recently about the wonders of three dimensional printing – a fast-emerging technology that may be able to reproduce any object from an instrument for sublime music (a Stradivarius violin) to a potential weapon of death (a bullet-firing gun). But 3D printing machines can do more than produce objects. They […]

Intelligence Security & Defense

Event Recap

Apr 9, 2013

Sustainable Transport for Global Development and Climate Protection

On Tuesday, April 9, the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight initiative (SFI), of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, hosted a roundtable discussion with Dr. Otaviano Canuto, vice president and head of the poverty reduction and economic management network, World Bank, Mr. Holger Dalkmann, director of EMBARQ, the World Resource Institute for sustainable transport, Mr. […]

Event Recap

Apr 9, 2013

Proposals for Stabilizing Afghanistan

On Tuesday, April 9, 2013, the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center and South Asia Center welcomed UK Member of Parliament and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Europe Tobias Ellwood and Atlantic Council Senior Advisor Dr. Harlan Ullman to “A Transatlantic Conversation on the Future of Afghanistan.”

Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Apr 8, 2013

How the Nordic Countries Are Quietly Leading the Alliance into the Future

By Magnus Nordenman

Amidst massive defense cuts and perennial squabbling over burden sharing across NATO, the Nordic countries of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark have quietly assumed a real leadership role in the transatlantic security relationship. They are making valuable contributions to the Alliance in personnel, strategic vision, operations, and policy. More importantly, they provide a model for […]

NATO Northern Europe
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