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U.S. Urges NATO to Bolster Baltic Defense
James Joyner | September 03, 2008Kurt Volker, the new US ambassador to NATO, yesterday called on the Alliance to increase preparations to defend the Baltic states from military attack, noting that, unlike Georgia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are signatories to Article 5, "so if there is any attack on those countries we will all respond," James Blitz reports for the Financial Times. Volker added, "We need to do what NATO ought to do, not in a provocative way and not in a rushed or hasty way. But NATO being credible is what’s important."
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Atlantic Council Chairman Named National Security Advisor
Atlantic Council Chairman General James L. Jones has accepted President-elect Barack Obama’s offer to serve as his National Security Advisor. Jones, respected on both sides of the aisle, brings more than forty years of military and diplomatic experience to the post.
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US-Pakistan Need ‘Strategic Partnership'
While our two countries have been allies since the 1950s, neither side has viewed the relationship strategically, Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s new Ambassador to the United States, told the Atlantic Council.
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Counterterrorism Plan for Obama
Atlantic Council senior fellow David L. Phillips published an op-ed at the Boston Globe entitled, "A counterterrorism plan for Obama."
