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Can NATO Adapt to Cyber Warfare?

What is the likelihood that NATO would invoke Article Five--NATO’s collective defense clause--in response to a cyber attack? The possibility first entered media discourse back in October 2010 when the German Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on an internal memo in which NATO Secretary-General Anders …

Written by Robin Tim Weis on Tuesday November 29, 2011

Don't Expect Democracy in Libya

From the widespread reaction, you’d think the collapse of Muammar Qaddafi's regime in Libya was a World War II-type victory. In fact it took six months of U.S., Canadian, British, French and NATO air strikes–most of the target practice with no return fire–before the “rebels” broke through to …

Written by Peter Worthington on Thursday August 25, 2011

Does Huntsman Face an Uphill Battle?

Huntsman strategist Jon Weaver has identified the core problem with the GOP brand. Jon Huntsman strategist Jon Weaver, speaking to Esquire magazine on the core GOP problem: "There's a simple reason our party is nowhere near being a national governing party .... No one wants to be around a …

Written by David Frum on Wednesday June 15, 2011

Libya Air War Has Lasted Longer Than Kosovo Campaign

Andrew Gilligan has pointed out that despite the sound and fury of NATO's spokesmen, the alliance's airstrikes against Muammar Qaddafi's military infrastructure in Libya are and always have been relatively light. Andrew Gilligan's account of the floundering campaign against Qaddafi in the UK …

Written by Tim Hodgson on Tuesday June 14, 2011

Republicans Go Wobbly on Libya

The GOP is right to worry that Obama hasn't explained our aims in Libya. But backing Kucinich's Libya bill was the wrong way to express these concerns. Donald Rumsfeld famously said that a nation goes to war with the army it has, and not necessarily the army it wishes it had. Rumsfeld caught a …

Written by John Guardiano on Monday June 6, 2011

Bad News from Afghanistan

A new report suggests that despite battlefield victories, the U.S. is still failing to win over the Afghan people. This is not good news. Despite battlefield gains against insurgents in southern Afghanistan, the United States is failing to win over Afghans in the heartland of the Taliban, a …

Written by David Frum on Tuesday May 17, 2011

Obama's Real Libya Goal: Regime Change

Obama’s Libya speech was intended to reassure voters that the U.S. was only intervening to save lives and not pushing for regime change. Unfortunately, it's just not true. It was a good speech, but it told us nothing that we don’t know. President Barack Obama’s intent was to reassure the …

Written by Peter Worthington on Tuesday March 29, 2011

The White House's Clumsy Timing

Sept. 17, 2009, is the day that the Obama administration yielded to Russian pressure and canceled the proposed missile defense system based in Poland and the Czech Republic. Today also happens to be the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, when Russia gulped down its share of …

Written by David Frum on Thursday September 17, 2009

Still Waiting for Obama's Afghan Strategy

Afghanistan is now Obama’s war. In the past six months, what Obama once called a “good war” has gotten worse. Even Bush cannot be blamed anymore, because it wasn’t this bad when he was immersed in Iraq. The “war” in Afghanistan is getting more lethal. An increasing number are saying it can’t be …

Written by Peter Worthington on Wednesday September 2, 2009

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