United States and Canada

The United States has enjoyed an unparalleled period of peace and prosperity since the end of the Second World War, due to its construction of a rules-based international order and maintenance of close alliances and partnerships. Canada has been a key partner for the United States, both due to their close economic links and their shared border, the world’s longest at 5,525 miles. Canada is also a key NATO ally for the United States and is active in international diplomacy around the world.

Content

New Atlanticist

Oct 17, 2012

Ready, Aim, Fire!

By Harlan Ullman

Last night’s presidential debate and the remaining encounter are not the best formats for getting real answers to very tough and even intractable issues facing this and most other nations round the globe.

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

NATOSource

Oct 16, 2012

Don’t Forget NATO

By James Goldgeier, International Herald Tribune

From James Goldgeier, International Herald Tribune:  In awarding this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union, the Nobel committee quite rightly noted the E.U.’s critical role in Europe’s transformation “from a Continent of war to a Continent of peace.”

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Oct 15, 2012

Rebel Arms Flow Is Said to Benefit Jihadists in Syria

By David E. Sanger, New York Times

From David E. Sanger, New York Times:  Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Oct 15, 2012

NATO must offer Turkey military support in Syria crisis

By Jorge Benitez, Christian Science Monitor

From Jorge Benitez, Christian Science Monitor:  For the second time in five months, Turkey has turned to NATO for support in the face of Syrian attacks that have killed Turkish citizens. Unfortunately, the transatlantic alliance has responded both times with words rather than deeds.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Oct 15, 2012

Arming Syria’s Rebels: The Least Bad Option

By Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia

From Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia:  The worst case for the United States in a post-Assad Syria would be that groups linked to al-Qaeda become dominant players either in the country’s government as a whole or in control of significant regions in a country that fragments.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Oct 15, 2012

Syria is Obama’s greatest failure

By Jackson Diehl, Washington Post

From Jackson Diehl, Washington Post:  The deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi were a calamity — but those losses were mainly the result of poor security decisions by mid-level State Department officials, not policy choices by Obama.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Oct 14, 2012

Europe risks giving up on defense

By James Blitz, Financial Times

From James Blitz, Financial Times:  In June last year, Robert Gates, the then US defence secretary, made a speech in Brussels on Europe’s military capabilities.

United Kingdom United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Oct 12, 2012

America Needs a Kennan Moment

By Julian Lindley-French

US strategist George F. Kennan, a hero of mine, once said, “The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been”.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Oct 12, 2012

Panetta and US declaratory policy on preemptive cyber attacks

By Leon Panetta, Department of Defense

From Leon Panetta, Department of Defense:  Potential aggressors should be aware that the United States has the capacity to locate them and to hold them accountable for their actions that may try to harm America.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Oct 12, 2012

Panetta on cyber threats to the US: ‘ This is a pre-9/11 moment’

By Leon Panetta, Department of Defense

From Leon Panetta, Department of Defense:  [T]he greater danger facing us in cyberspace goes beyond crime and it goes beyond harassment.  A cyber attack perpetrated by nation states are violent extremists groups could be as destructive as the terrorist attack on 9/11.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

Experts

Events