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Jun 20, 2013

US Forces Training for Potential Chemical Weapons Crisis in Syria

By Barbara Starr, CNN Security Clearance

From Barbara Starr, CNN Security Clearance:  Senior U.S. officials have said there is continuing concern that eventually some type of military units will be needed to go into Syria to take control of the [chemical] weapons. For more than a year, the United States has quietly trained Jordanian forces for that mission. But the Army’s […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 20, 2013

The Role of NATO in Today’s World

By Mary T. Curtin, Star Tribune

From Mary T. Curtin, Star Tribune:  NATO plays an important role protecting the security that has enabled decades of European and North American peace and prosperity.

United States and Canada

MENASource

Jun 20, 2013

America and the Democratic Transition in Egypt

By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin

I happened to be spending a few days in New York and Washington DC for work, immediately after an Egyptian court sentenced a number of defendants to prison among them a number of Americans in the so-called "NGO Funding Trial", in which foreign NGOs were accused of illegally funding and supporting Egyptian NGOs during the […]

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jun 19, 2013

A New Declaration of Interdependence

By Frederick Kempe and Aart De Geus

On July 4, 1962, U.S. president John F. Kennedy declared “that the United States will be ready for a Declaration of Interdependence, that we will be prepared to discuss with a united Europe the ways and means of forming a concrete Atlantic partnership, a mutually beneficial partnership between the new union now emerging in Europe […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

NATOSource

Jun 19, 2013

Obama to Germany: ‘Complacency is not the Character of Great Nations’

By Barack Obama, White House

From Barack Obama, White House:  [B]ecause courageous crowds climbed atop that wall, because corrupt dictatorships gave way to new democracies, because millions across this continent now breathe the fresh air of freedom, we can say, here in Berlin, here in Europe — our values won.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 19, 2013

South Korea to Buy European Missiles

By AFP

From AFP:  South Korea will buy European bunker-busting missiles as the United States refused to sell the same kind of weapons to the country, the state procurement agency said Wednesday.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 19, 2013

Obama Proposes Cutting US and Russian Strategic Nuclear Weapons by a Third

By White House

From White House:  After a comprehensive review of our nuclear forces, the President has determined that we can ensure the security of the United States and our allies and partners and maintain a strong and credible strategic deterrent while safely pursuing up to a one-third reduction in deployed strategic nuclear weapons

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 18, 2013

Two Great Powers, No Real Leadership

By Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal

From Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal:  Twice in the 20th century, Germany tried to grab hegemony by bayonet and blitzkrieg, almost destroying itself and Europe in the process.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 18, 2013

US Ambassador: Consensus Rule in NATO ‘Unsustainable’ if Burden Sharing Remains ‘So Unequal’

By Ivo Daalder, U.S. Mission to NATO

From Ivo Daalder, U.S. Mission to NATO:  Recent trends in defense spending threaten NATO’s ability to confidently face a dangerous and unpredictable future.

United Kingdom United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 18, 2013

US and Russia Sign Cyber Security Pact

By White House

From White House:  The United States and the Russian Federation are creating a new working group, under the auspices of the Bilateral Presidential Commission, dedicated to assessing emerging ICT threats and proposing concrete joint measures to address them.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

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