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US/NATO/AFGHANISTAN: COIN strategy targets protection
A suicide bomb attack in Kabul today has killed at least eight people. The recently announced...
United StatesEUROPE: Conscription on way out as armies reform
The German decision to cut military service from nine to six months and speed up the...
INTERNATIONAL: NATO allies mull leaving Afghanistan
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen underlined the necessity of the mission in...
NatoDENMARK: Capable Rasmussen may prove divisive for NATO
Rasmussen, who sent Danish troops both to Iraq and Afghanistan, is understood to have the backing...
DenmarkEUROPEAN UNION: Crisis gives voice to enlargement foes
Germany's ruling Christian Democratic Union on March 16 called for a period of "consolidation"...
AFGHANISTAN: Community militia experiment starts badly
A pilot programme of forming 'community militias' that began in Wardak province in January was...
AfghanistanFRANCE/GERMANY/UK: European security strategies emerge
The Munich Security Conference gets underway today, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and...
FranceRUSSIA/EUROPE: Scepticism greets security proposals
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on...
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