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Oct 11, 2011

White House “urges the release of Mrs. Tymoshenko”

By the White House

From the White House:   Statement by the Press Secretary on Ukraine

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Oct 11, 2011

US delegation wants NATO membership plan for Georgia

By News.Az

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Oct 11, 2011

NATO Panel Urges Nations To Eradicate All Chemical Arms

By the Global Security Newswire

From the Global Security Newswire: A key NATO panel on Sunday approved a draft text that urges Iraq, Russia and the United States to eradicate their chemical warfare materials in a safe and secure manner, the ACTMedia News Agency reported (see GSN, Oct. 4).

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Oct 11, 2011

NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Moscow to discuss missile defense

By defpro.com

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New Atlanticist

Oct 11, 2011

The Decline and Fall of America’s Decline and Fall

By Joseph Nye

The United States is going through difficult times. Its post-2008 recovery has slowed, and some observers fear that Europe’s financial problems could tip the American and world economy into a second recession. American politics, moreover, remains gridlocked over budgetary issues, and compromise will be even more difficult on the eve of the 2012 election, when […]

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Oct 11, 2011

Clinton reassures European allies in discussion of America’s Pacific Century

Hillary Clinton, Foreign Policy:  In the last decade, our foreign policy has transitioned from dealing with the post-Cold War peace dividend to demanding commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan. As those wars wind down, we will need to accelerate efforts to pivot to new global realities.

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Oct 11, 2011

Italy says US, UK forces free ship from pirates

By Alessandra Rizzo, the AP

From Alessandra Rizzo, the AP:  U.S. and British forces freed an Italian cargo ship on Tuesday that was attacked by pirates off Somalia and arrested the assailants, officials said.

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Oct 11, 2011

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan poses challenge for Obama

By Paul Richter, the Los Angeles Times

Drones Technology & Innovation

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Oct 10, 2011

Why the future of air power belongs to unmanned systems

By the Economist

From the Economist:  American officers, with their passion for acronyms, prefer not to call the machine that killed al-Awlaki a drone. They have a point. In nature, drone bees are poor, useless things that produce no honey and have no sting.

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Oct 7, 2011

Lockheed’s THAAD missile defense system passes test under “operational” conditions

By Jim Wolf, Reuters

 From Jim Wolf, Reuters:  A multibillion-dollar missile defense system built by Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) successfully completed its most challenging test so far, downing two short-range targets in quick succession, the company said on Wednesday.

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