NATO Allies

Source: www.moreover.com --- 41 days ago
U.S. military officials are pressing their NATO Allies to send more forces to Afghanistan to help secure the lawless tribal region along the Pakistani border. ...

Source: news.telegraph.co.uk --- 32 days ago
American officials are in a state of near despair about the failure of Britain's European Allies to do more to beef up NATO combat power in Afghanistan. ...

Source: thescotsman.scotsman.com --- 35 days ago
Men and women returning from active duty in Afghanistan are allowed to wear the general service medal given to them by the British government. Since they are serving there as ...

Source: www.defenselink.mil --- 40 days ago
NATO has made significant progress in Afghanistan, and the alliance now needs to deliver on the goals its heads of state set when they met in April, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 40 days ago
NATO has made significant progress in Afghanistan, and the alliance now needs to deliver on the goals the alliance's heads of state set when they met in April, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 40 days ago
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressed his frustration on Friday over NATO Allies' failure to materialize their pledges on Afghanistan. ...

Source: www.nato.int --- 13 days ago
Allies signed today the Accession Protocols with Albania and Croatia, opening the way for the full NATO membership of these two countries. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania, H.E. Mr. Luzlim Basha and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Croatia, H.E. Mr. Gordan Jandrocović participated in the ceremony in the NATO Headquarters. ...

Source: www.voidstar.com --- 9 days ago
The Honourable David Emerson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, today congratulated Albania and Croatia after NATO members signed protocols opening the way for the two countries to accede to the North Atlantic Treaty in 2009. ...

Source: firstread.msnbc.msn.com --- 8 days ago
From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy and NBC's Mark Murray In calling for an additional three brigades to supplement troop levels in Afghanistan today, McCain said that such an increase was made possible due to the success of the recent troop surge in Iraq. "Thanks to the success of the surge, these forces are becoming available, and our commanders in Afghanistan must get them," McCain said, implying that additional troops could either be shifted directly from Iraq or from other regions due to troops coming home from Iraq. Yet while speaking to reporters on his bus after this morning's town hall, McCain would not commit to whether those additional brigades would definitely be American ones. When asked if the three brigades would come from the United States or NATO, McCain said: "We need to work that out. We need to have greater participation on the part of our NATO Allies, as I said in my opening remarks today and we need a lot more help." ...( read more ) ...

Source: blogs.abcnews.com --- 8 days ago
While Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, was seeming defensive on Iraq today, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was changing his position on Afghanistan. Just last week, McCain was calling for the U.S.'s NATO Allies to increase their troop presence in Afghanistan and... ...

Source: blogs.abcnews.com --- 6 days ago
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and his Allies have been hitting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, for not holding any hearings to examine the role of NATO in Afghanistan in his perch as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European... ...

Source: www.reuters.com --- 21 days ago
VIENNA (Reuters) - U.S. Allies in NATO must provide better equipment and drop many restrictions on how their forces are used to help defeat Afghanistan's resilient Taliban insurgency, the alliance's supreme commander said on Wednesday. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 19 days ago
VIENNA: US Allies in NATO must provide better equipment and drop many restrictions on how their forces are used to help defeat Afghanistan's resilient Taliban insurgency, the alliance's supreme commander said yesterday. ...

Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 8 days ago
By Juliet Eilperin ALBUQUERQUE -- In an interview with reporters aboard his campaign bus, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) modified his assertion today that the U.S. could send three additional brigades to Afghanistan by drawing on troops that were leaving Iraq. The presumptive GOP nominee, who made his initial remarks in a speech before an Albuquerque audience, told reporters just minutes after the event that he might call on NATO to supply part of the additional troops he hopes to send to the region. "We need to work that out, we need to have greater participation from our NATO Allies, and we need a lot more help from our NATO Allies," the senator said. "We need to -- I laid it out in my speech, we need to have strategy, not just an injection of troops. I think that's true of all counterinsurgencies." Our NATO Allies, he added, can provide manpower ...

Source: www.boston.com --- 6 days ago
The cover story in the new Time magazine runs counter to the major presidential candidates' call this week to send more US troops to Afghanistan to control the resurgent Taliban and to make sure al Qaeda does not have a safe haven. Harvard professor Rory Stewart, reporting from the capital of Kabul, writes: “The West should not increase troop numbers. In time, NATO Allies, such as Germany and Holland, will probably want to draw down their numbers, and they should be allowed to do so...Nor should we increase our involvement in government and the economy...Afghans have the energy, pride and the competence to lead that process. The West, however, does not. It should not waste its money, its lives and its reputation trying to do the impossible. It should invest in what it does well. We do not have a moral obligation to do what we cannot do.” But on Tuesday, both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain said they would send thousands more US troops to Afghanistan, calling the country a key front in the war on terror. Time also includes essays from both candidates along with Stewart's article. Obama writes: “My first order as Commander in Chief will be to end the war in Iraq and refocus our efforts on Afghanistan and our broader security interests I will send at least two additional combat brigades to Afghanistan and use this commitment to seek greater contributions -- with fewer restrictions -- from NATO Allies. I will focus on tra ...

Source: bourbonroom.blogs.foxnews.com --- 7 days ago
Note: Forgive my absence (if you even noticed). Vacation beckoned. The Obama campaign justifiably sees an advantage in the renewed interest in the NATO-led efforts to defeat the Taliban and its Al Qaeda Allies in Afghanistan. Obama called for a more muscular effort in Afghanistan in a speech on Aug. 1, 2007. Read the speech here: [...] ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 8 days ago
A New Strategy for a New World Senator Barack Obama As Prepared For Delivery Washington, D.C. ** WATCH VIDEO BELOW ** Sixty-one years ago, George Marshall announced the plan that would come to bear his name. Much of Europe lay in ruins. The United States faced a powerful and ideological enemy intent on world domination. This menace was magnified by the recently discovered capability to destroy life on an unimaginable scale. The Soviet Union didn't yet have an atomic bomb, but before long it would. The challenge facing the greatest generation of Americans - the generation that had vanquished fascism on the battlefield - was how to contain this threat while extending freedom's frontiers. Leaders like Truman and Acheson, Kennan and Marshall, knew that there was no single decisive blow that could be struck for freedom. We needed a new overarching strategy to meet the challenges of a new and dangerous world. Such a strategy would join overwhelming military strength with sound judgment. It would shape events not just through military force, but through the force of our ideas; through economic power, intelligence and diplomacy. It would support strong Allies that freely shared our ideals of liberty and democracy; open markets and the rule of law. It would foster new international institutions like the United Nations, NATO, and the World Bank, and focus on every corner of the globe. It was a strategy that saw clearly the world's dangers, ...

Source: www.nydailynews.com --- 18 days ago
Allied combat deaths in Afghanistan surpassed those in Iraq for a second straight month in June. Meanwhile, New Yorker reporter Sy Hersh writes that U.S. covert operators are infiltrating Iran . What do these two developments have in common? Maybe nothing. But as we report in today’s Daily News , one new factor in the record high casualties of the ever-escalating Afghan war is that American troops are suddenly dying along the country’s border with Iran. At least 10 Americans have been killed in action since May 25 in Afghanistan’s Farah province , which lies on the Iranian border. It’s worth noting that Hersh’s story claims U.S. operatives are cultivating Sunni Allies opposed to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who live in Iran’s Baluchestan province - which just happens to abut Afghanistan’s Farah province. According to Pentagon statements, a few of the casualties were killed during operations ostensibly in two eastern Farah districts: Gulistan and Bala Baluk , which are near Helmand province. Helmand has been the site of some of the war’s worst fighting, and U.S. and NATO commanders say they have squeezed some Taliban out of Helmand and into Farah. But when I asked the Camp Pendleton, Calif., Marines to identify the Farah districts where their men died, I instead heard back from a New York National Guard colonel, whose task force trains Afghan National Security Forces. Lt. Col. Paul Fanning, the spokesman, wouldn’t name th ...

Source: www.military.com --- 21 days ago
President Bush said he is weighing whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. Bush said it has been a "tough month" in Afghanistan, where more troops died during the past two months than in Iraq. The U.S. has about 31,000 troops in the region, and has been pressing NATO Allies to contribute more. ...