LISBON – NATO’s Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen addressed the the Youth Summit here as leaders of the alliance approved the final draft of NATO’s new Strategic Concept. Rasmussen, the former Prime Minister of Denmark, said the ambitious agenda — which focuses on the future of long-term operations in Afghanistan, extensive partnerships with numerous countries, including […]
Having largely gone unreported by the Western media in general, a burgeoning arms race between Azerbijan and Armenia has steadily crystalized over the past few years. Predominantly concerning frictions over the disputed regions of Nagorno-Karabakh drawn across ethnic and geopolitical lines, the two nations have begun acquiring military hardware at a frantic rate. Emboldened by the rapid […]
LISBON – The U.S. Assistant Secretary for Defense for international security affairs, Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, affirmed U.S. support for Georgia’s aspirations for NATO membership here at the Young Atlantacist Youth Summit taking place alongside official deliberations over a new Strategic Concept for the transatlantic alliance. Vershbow said that NATO partnerships with Russia, Ukraine and Georgia […]
FPA fellow Sarwar Kashmeri, author of NATO 2.0: Reboot or Delete, spoke to Euronews’ Paul Hackett ahead of today’s NATO summit in Lisbon about the future of the alliance. You can watch the video here. The war in Afghanistan and the relationship with Russia are just some of the issues NATO is trying to grapple with […]
Dominik P. Jankowski from Poland’s J5 Strategic Planning Directorate and Tomasz K. Kowalik, Military Assistant to the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, offer a military perspective on Central Europe’s efforts to mend rifts and manage strategic capabilities inside NATO at the Center for European Policy Analysis. I met Domink in […]
Thank God he does! Earlier this week I wrote a piece (click here) about money men who don’t understand country risk writing investment letters prescribing economic policy to the US government. Bill Gross, founder of mega-bond fund, Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) out of sunny Newport Beach CA, criticized the Federal Reserve and its policy […]
LISBON – Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates opened up the Youth Summit here with remarks on NATO’s new Strategic Concept, which he modestly branded the “Lisbon Concept.” Sócrates said the two lasting legacies of the summit would be an affirmation of NATO’s partnership with Russia and the start of a “new transition phase” in Afghanistan […]
LISBON – Lisbon is a city that has been on the tongues of many a European multilateralist in recent years. Not only is it the namesake of the European Union’s most recent governing agreement, the Lisbon Treaty, that lays out a number of ambitious goals in creating common foreign and security policy for the body, […]
The day after I post something about the upcoming independence referendum in Sudan, election problems boil over in two other countries on the continent. The Guinean military has proclaimed a state of emergency following a disputed election earlier this month, and reports are emerging of a military coup in Madagascar this morning. On November 7, […]
In your spare time, why not solve America’s greatest national security dilemma? Courtesy of The New York Times, you can play around with ways to solve the deficit problem. Save America from the death spiral that brought down so many empires of the past! But, as I noted last week, keep in mind Paul Krugman’s […]
With the recent submission of findings by the bi-partisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform recommending a 15 percent cut in U.S. defense procurement and a 10 percent reduction in research and development, the future of American military dominance appears to be in question. Even prior to the report’s release, the Pentagon launched a […]
With the mid term elections over, Afghanistan is once more in the news headlines. Over the weekend Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai gave an interview to the Washington Post criticizing the NATO war strategy. Karzai stated: “we’d like the Afghan countryside…not to be so overwhelmed with the military presence…you can have the U.S. presence in the […]
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