NATO

  • Dec 15, 2009
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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 States
  • Dec 11, 2009
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EUROPE: Conscription on way out as armies reform

The German decision to cut military service from nine to six months and speed up the...

  • Oct 1, 2009
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INTERNATIONAL: NATO allies mull leaving Afghanistan

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen underlined the necessity of the mission in...

Nato
  • Apr 1, 2009
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DENMARK: Capable Rasmussen may prove divisive for NATO

Rasmussen, who sent Danish troops both to Iraq and Afghanistan, is understood to have the backing...

Denmark
  • Mar 24, 2009
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EUROPEAN UNION: Crisis gives voice to enlargement foes

Germany's ruling Christian Democratic Union on March 16 called for a period of "consolidation"...

  • Mar 17, 2009
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AFGHANISTAN: Community militia experiment starts badly

A pilot programme of forming 'community militias' that began in Wardak province in January was...

Afghanistan
  • Feb 6, 2009
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FRANCE/GERMANY/UK: European security strategies emerge

The Munich Security Conference gets underway today, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and...

France
  • Jan 13, 2009
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RUSSIA/EUROPE: Scepticism greets security proposals

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on...

Russia