United States and Canada

Turkey’s Leadership

By the Editors of the New York Times

SAIC-led consortium to analyse NATO missile defense

By David Brunnstrom, Reuters

From David Brunnstrom, Reuters:  NATO signed a contract with a consortium led by U.S.-based Science Applications International Corp on Tuesday to analyse ways of transforming the alliance’s battlefield missile defence system. . . . It said engineers from France’s EADS Astrium , Germany’s IABG, Italy’s SELEX SI, TNO of the Netherlands, Britain’s QINETIQ and SAIC […]

Obama urges Erdogan to resolve Turkey’s problems with Israel

By Matt Spetalnick and Laura MacInnis, Reuters

Russia gives NATO cold shoulder on Arctic militarization

By Russia Today

What Comes After ‘Europe’?

By Bret Stephens, the Wall Street Journal

From Bret Stephens, the Wall Street Journal:  The hardest fact on which postwar Europe was founded was military necessity, crisply summed up by Lord Ismay’s famous line that NATO’s mission was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down."

Europe’s takeaway from Libya: “”Will the U.S. keep bailing us out?”

By the Wall Street Journal

From the Wall Street Journal: At the start, the U.S. led the military charge. America flew well over half the aerial raids—1,320 sorties in total—in the first two weeks after the U.N. Security Council voted in March to authorize the mission.

France is Europe’s U.S.A.

By Sam Schulman, the Weekly Standard

From Sam Schulman, the Weekly Standard:  As Maine is New England’s Texas, France is Europe’s U.S.A. It’s big. It’s ornery. Like us, the French are notably more inward-looking than Europe’s other populous, geographically big, and prosperous states.

White House praises “biggest strategic decision” between US and Turkey in almost 2 decades

By Thom Shanker, the New York Times

From Thom Shanker, the New York Times:  American officials called the deal with Turkey the most significant military cooperation between Washington and Ankara since 2003