Messages In This Digest (13 Messages)
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- Relentless Global Drive: NATO On Six Continents In Seven Days From: Rick Rozoff
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- Attacco Immediato Globale: la superiorità militare senza armi nuc From: Rick Rozoff
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- NATO Trains Azeri Troops At Home, Abroad; Pentagon In U.S. From: Rick Rozoff
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- Pentagon Reiterates: No Missile Shield Restrictions In START II From: Rick Rozoff
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- BRIC Ready To Recast World Order From: Rick Rozoff
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- Russia Orders Military To Protect Citizens In Kyrgyzstan From: Rick Rozoff
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- Coup In Kyrgyzstan, Drugs From Afghanistan And The U.S. From: Rick Rozoff
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- After Reshuffle, CIA Still Keeps Eye On Russia From: Rick Rozoff
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- Saakashvili At Harvard: "Georgia And Black Sea Security" From: Rick Rozoff
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- Georgian Troops Serve NATO In Afghanistan From: Rick Rozoff
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- Georgia Begins Compulsory Military Indoctrination In Schools From: Rick Rozoff
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- Ukraine Extends Russian Black Sea Fleet Term For 25 More Years From: Rick Rozoff
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- New York: Georgia's Saakashvili Reminisces With Bloomberg, Trump From: Rick Rozoff
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Relentless Global Drive: NATO On Six Continents In Seven Days
Posted by: "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff@yahoo.com rwrozoff
Tue Apr 20, 2010 5:40 pm (PDT)
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Stop NATO
April 20, 2010
Relentless Global Drive: NATO On Six Continents In Seven Days
Rick Rozoff
During the twenty years following the end of the Cold War the military alliance whose founding signalled the advent of an armed East-West confrontation in Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has transformed itself into history's first international military formation.
In the process the bloc has progressively substituted itself for and attempted to supplant the 56-nation Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Eurasia and the United Nations globally.
Over six years ago the current U.S. permanent representative to NATO, Ivo Daalder, co-authored an opinion piece in the Washington Post that was titled "Global NATO." The theme of the article was encapsulated in one sentence: "With little fanfare â€" and even less notice â€" the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has gone global.†[1]
During the NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania in April of 2008 then chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Canadian General Raymond Henault, offered this contrast between the North Atlantic military bloc shortly after the end of the Cold War and what it had become by 2008:
"Less than 20 years ago, NATO consisted of 16 members, counted none as partners, and had conducted no operations or exercises outside its member state borders....Today, NATO counts 26 members and 38 other countries in four Partnership arrangements....Importantly, the non-Russian former Warsaw Pact states have successfully integrated into NATO....In a few short years, NATO has conducted 8 operations on 4 continents." [2]
At the time Henault, who would step down from his position later in the year to be succeeded by Italian Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola. reminisced on his three-year tenure: "I have had the great fortune of being able to regularly visit many of our theatres of operation, all 26 NATO nations, 14 Partner countries â€" including Japan, Australia, and those aspiring to join â€" plus our important ally Pakistan." [3]
By 2009 the self-defined "military alliance of democratic states in Europe and North America" had expanded from 16 to 28 full members, all of the new additions in Eastern Europe, with operations on four of six inhabited continents and military partners on five.
The person who preceded the Netherlands-born Ivo Daalder as U.S. ambassador to NATO, Kurt Volker, anticipated Renault's account of the breathtaking expansion of the world's only military bloc by two years.
Ahead of the 2006 NATO summit in Riga, the capital of Latvia, itself only brought into the Alliance two years earlier - a NATO summit in the former Soviet Union yet - Volker celebrated the ultimate Western victory in the Cold War: The extension of the military alliance founded and dominated by the U.S. throughout almost all of Europe and its elaboration of networks worldwide.
Volker began his foreign policy career as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency in 1986, from which post he became first secretary of the American mission to NATO in 1998 and the following year Deputy Director of NATO Secretary-General George Robertson's private office in the year of the bloc's air war against Yugoslavia. In 2001 he was appointed acting director for European and Eurasian Affairs in the George W. Bush administration's National Security Council.
In the last-named capacity he was in charge of his nation's preparations for the NATO summits in the Czech Republic in 2002 and in Turkey in 2004. The Istanbul summit effected the largest expansion in NATO's history - seven new Eastern European members - and created the eponymous Istanbul Cooperation Initiative to upgrade partnerships with NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue members - Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia - and create an analogous program for the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. [4]
Before the 2006 summit, by which time Volker had been appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, he delivered an address at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, in which he said:
“Recognizing the demands that will be placed on NATO now and in the future, we want to see NATO deepen its capabilities for current and future operations, build new partnerships, and prepare for future enlargement.†[5]
His immediate objectives were to "ensure that NATO succeeds in Afghanistan as it prepares to expand the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to the south and thereafter to the east,†in the process broadening its military presence throughout the entire nation; to expand NATO's role in and around Darfur in western Sudan; to increase the bloc's training mission in Iraq, whose commander the previous year had been General David Petraeus, now head of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as chief of U.S. Central Command, and further develop “partnerships in training and education†in the Middle East and Africa; to cultivate NATO's "relationship with global security partners, such as Australia or Japan†; and "to ensure that the NRF [global rapidly deployable NATO Response Force] is strengthened, trained, and funded...to make sure that it is usable.†[6]
A month earlier Volker gave a speech at Howard University's Model NATO Conference in which he boasted that "NATO is in the process of enormous transformation. The NATO of the Cold War - the NATO that was a static
collective defense alliance - that never engaged in a single military operation is gone. That NATO was successful. That’s not the NATO that we look at today.
"If you think about 1994, NATO had never conducted a military operation, had done a lot of exercises. It was an alliance of 16 countries at that time. If you look at the NATO of 2005, just ending last year, it was an organization that was running eight military operations simultaneously, that had 26 members, had partnership relationships with another 30 countries in Eurasia and another 22 countries in the broader Middle East, and looking at other relationships." [7]
As though moving a pointer over a map of most of the non-Euro-Atlantic world, he continued: "Now NATO is operating...in Afghanistan, in Pakistan â€" we just closed that operation - in Iraq, in Darfur. Operating a much greater geographic distance. I think this is a trend that’s only going to continue....[A]s NATO is active in places like Afghanistan or Iraq or Darfur, we are working together with countries that share NATO’s values and that are capable of contributing to security, such as Australia or New Zealand or South Korea or Japan, and we would like to find ways to cooperate with these countries, as well, because our expectation is if over the last ten years alliance leaders have given NATO four, five, six, seven, eight operational tasks to take on, this is going to continue." [8]
For the past decade American (and not a few European) political commentators have bemoaned the imminent demise of NATO. An article to that effect is always handy on a slow news day when an empty column space is staring back at a bemused editor.
That NATO's Defense Planning Committee invoked the bloc's Article 4 ("The Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened") to deploy Patriot interceptor missiles and AWACS radar aircraft to Turkey a month before the invasion of Iraq was not a sufficient commitment by the Alliance. That two months after the invasion NATO's North Atlantic Council unanimously agreed to assist new member Poland's occupation zone in the country, situated between the American and British ones, wasn't an adequate response either.
That in 2004 the NATO Training Mission - Iraq was established in Baghdad and is likely to outlast U.S. military presence in the country wasn't enough for the advocates of the "NATO is dead" school of thought either.
The military bloc's involvement in the almost nine-year Operation Active Endeavor naval mission throughout the Mediterranean Sea, in Central Africa, in the Horn of Africa, in establishing the Trilateral Afghanistan-Pakistan-NATO Military Commission and in creating Contact Country military partnerships with Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea is not counted as a significant development as well. [9]
That NATO has now recruited and deployed troops from nations as diverse as Singapore and Colombia, the United Arab Republics and Mongolia, Montenegro and Sweden for the war in Afghanistan is given scant attention. [10]
165 Western troops have been killed in Afghanistan so far this year, including at least seven soldiers from Germany, which had not suffered combat deaths since the Second World War before now.
In less than four months there will be 150,000 troops serving under the joint commander of the U.S. Operation Enduring Freedom and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force operations, Stanley McChrystal, almost all of them under NATO command.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has indeed "gone global," and as Ivo Daalder pointed out six years, several military operations and tens of thousands of troops deployed earlier, with little fanfare and hardly more notice.
A survey of the Alliance's activities last week - on all six populated continents - will provide an updated view of how truly global the "military alliance of democratic states in Europe and North America" has grown to become.
Europe
The Pentagon's Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy Bradley Roberts announced on April 15 that "U.S. anti-ballistic missile systems will cover all of Europe by 2018." Specifically, "Full coverage of NATO territory in Europe would be achieved around 2018" when "a second land-based site is to be established in northern Europe for updated Raytheon Co (RTN.N) Standard Missile-3 missile interceptors."
"The Pentagon dubs this Phase 3 of its new 'adaptive' missile-defense plans, a continued bone of contention with Russia." [11]
On April 12 NATO launched four large-scale war games in northern Europe.
The eleven-day Brilliant Ardent 2010 NATO Response Force live air force exercises started in Germany with the participation of military aircraft from the U.S., the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Turkey. "Participation by U.S. Air Forces in Europe units directly aligns with the command key mission areas of providing forces for global operations and building partnership." [12]
The major war games include "Sixty aircraft ranging from fighters, attack aircraft, helicopters, tanker and airborne early warning aircraft...operating from air bases located in Germany, the Czech Republic, France, Poland, and UK," which will also test theater missile defense and ground-based air defense components.
Occurring during the same eleven days, April 12-22, the NATO Response Force is also drilling its maritime forces in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea with 31 warships, four submarines and 28 aircraft.
The Brilliant Mariner maneuvers also include 6,500 troops from the United States, Britain, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Spain. "A large fleet of warships, submarines and auxiliary vessels from NATO’s Response Force (NRF) sailed from ports across Europe on 12 April to take part....The ships and submarines will take part in integration training that will enable them to respond to operations or crisis situations anywhere in the world if required." [13]
Also on April 12 NATO began the Joint Warrior 10-1 "multiwarfare exercise designed to improve interoperability between allied navies and prepare participating crews to conduct combined operations during deployment." [14]
Held off the coast of Scotland and elsewhere in the United Kingdom, the biennial Joint Warrior is "Europe's largest military exercise," [15] and this month twenty-one warships, five submarines and fifty warplanes are involved. On the British side, "The exercise will involve 16 Air Assault Brigade and the Royal Navy's Carrier Strike Group headed by HMS Ark Royal." [16] The other participating nations are the U.S., with seven ships, and Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and NATO Contact County and Afghan war partner New Zealand.
The fourth military exercise begun on April 12 is Frisian Flag 2010 in the Netherlands with warplanes from the U.S., Britain and several other NATO allies, including U.S. F-15C Eagle, Dutch F-16 Fighting Falcon, Swedish JAS-39 Gripen, Finnish F-18 Hornet, Norwegian F-16 Fighting Falcon, German F-4 and Polish F-16 Fighting Falcon multirole jet fighters. [17]
"The multi-nation exercise will last until April 22 and is meant to train pilots on offensive and defensive roles through realistic scenarios...." [18]
The four exercises all began on April 12 and will end on either April 22 or 23. None of them are tailored for the sort of asymmetric warfare NATO is conducting in either Afghanistan or the Somali basin currently. Russian ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin has mentioned that the aerial exercises being held in Germany are based on a scenario that resembles a new war in the South Caucasus between Georgia and Russian forces based in South Ossetia.
The war games could also be in preparation for future attacks against Iran.
Last week the chairman of NATO's Military Committee, Italian Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, and commander of NATO's Allied Joint Force Command Naples U.S. Admiral Mark Fitzgerald announced plans to visit Kosovo to "watch a training of the Kosovo Security Forces," [19] an embryonic army founded, armed and trained by NATO in the first pseudo-state formed by the Western military bloc, an aberration not recognized by almost two-thirds of world governments.
The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense announced the latest deployment of its nation's soldiers to serve under NATO command in Afghanistan on April 15. In the words of Chief of Defense Major General Arvydas Pocius, "Troops of the Lithuanian Armed Forces are going to enforce NATO's principles. The 'one for all' principle must be observed. That is why the Lithuanian sky is daily protected by NATO's fighter-jets, NATO's warships come to our seaport, and our partners are ready to arrive in case our nation is in need of help." [20]
Nature may have accomplished what no government or major political party in Europe will dare venture: Challenging NATO. The air force facet of Joint Warrior has been suspended, the NATO delegation visit to Kosovo postponed and participation in the impending 56-nation NATO foreign ministers meeting in Estonia is problematic because of drifting ash from a volcano in Iceland.
The foreign ministers meeting in Estonia scheduled for April 22-23 is to focus on the war in Afghanistan, the bloc's new Strategic Concept, NATO's nuclear weapons policy in light of the new U.S. Nuclear Posture Review, "missile defence as a building block for the Lisbon Summit" [21] in November, and further expansion into Eastern Europe.
Asia
The Western war in Afghanistan that will be nine-years-old on October 7 is to be intensified to its deadliest level yet when "NATO forces...launch a major offensive in the Afghanistan city of Kandahar in June...." [22]
In the past weeks an estimated 120 Afghan civilians have been killed and over 100 injured as a result of the conflict, NATO's first war in Asia and first ground war.
A major American newspaper reported last week that "Deaths of Afghan civilians by NATO troops have more than doubled this year, NATO statistics show...." [23]
NATO partner Finland, which had not lost troops in combat operations since World War Two until recently in Afghanistan, is currently involved in its "largest joint operation" to date in the north of Afghanistan with troops from Sweden, Germany, Belgium and Hungary. [24] Sweden has registered its first combat losses in almost 200 years.
NATO troop deployments "will peak at 150,000 in August." [25]
Australia
U.S. Admiral James Stavridis, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe, visited New Zealand on April 11-12 and met with the country's minister of defence, secretary of defence force and chief of defence force.
"We wanted to come to one of the most important ISAF partners we have which is contributing across the spectrum of operations in Afghanistan,†NATO's top military commander said. [26]
On April 13 Stavridis "continued his official visit to the South Pacific with a trip to Australia's capital city, Canberra," where he met with the secretary of defence, the air chief and chief of defence forces. "While in Canberra, Adm Stavridis spoke before 900 officer cadets at the Australia Defence Force Academy regarding International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and leadership." [27] Australia has 1,550 troops serving under NATO In Afghanistan and has lost its first troops in combat operations - eleven - since the war in Vietnam.
Iraq
The commander of NATO Training Mission - Iraq [NTM-I], Major General Giuseppe Spinelli, delivered a speech last week at the Ar-Rustamiyah Joint Staff and Command College in Baghdad on the occasion of sixteen officers graduating from Brigade Command and Battalion Command courses conducted by personnel from the Western military bloc. The Italian commander said, "The NATO advisor teams very much enjoy working alongside our Iraqi partners. I wish to assure you of the future support of the NATO Training Mission as you prepare for the next courses." The next round of courses begins in June. [28]
At the same time Spinelli's countryman Maurizio Melani, Italian ambassador to Iraq, presented a lecture on the NATO training mission at the Iraqi National Defence University. He spoke to students of the Iraqi National Defence College (NDC) on the topic of “The European Union as a factor of peace and stability; the role of Italy.â€
The speech "inaugurated a cycle of conferences that will be held by Ambassadors of NATO nations, in the framework of the NTM-I initiative to support the Iraqi NDC.
"The aim of this project is to provide a selected audience from the NDC and other prestigious Iraqi military educational institutions with a political perspective from a range of NATO countries, focusing on different approaches to Iraq and the future of the Gulf region, and a general overview about the NATO organization and its current roles.
"The NDC is the lead cross departmental Institute for the delivery of high level courses, both for military and civilian high-ranking officials, focusing on Grand Strategic and Military Strategic issues." [29]
Africa
Last week Admiral Mark Fitzgerald, commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe and Africa and of NATO's Allied Joint Task Force Command Naples, advocated the arming of civilian vessels in the Horn of Africa, the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, stating, "We could put a World War II fleet of ships out there and we still wouldn't be able to cover the whole ocean." [30]
NATO's naval deployment in the area, Operation Ocean Shield, consists of the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) with its five warships. Last week an SNMG2 press release disclosed that "The five ships of NATO’s Task Force conducting counter piracy operations have been at the centre of the fight against piracy in the waters off Somalia in recent days."
"Operating deep in the Indian Ocean, the Greek warship HS LIMNOS saw action against 3 pirate groups in as many days. Working closely with Swedish and Luxemburg maritime patrol aircraft operating from the Seychelles, the frigate destroyed 6 pirate attack boats together with all of their weapons and other piracy equipment between 7 and 9 April."
Last autumn U.S. Africa Command deployed lethal Reaper drones, military aircraft and over 100 troops to the Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles for action in the Horn and on the Somali mainland.
The commander of the NATO naval contingent, Commodore Steve Chick of the British Royal Navy, was quoted as saying, "This has been a busy period for the NATO Task Force and we have seen significant successes against the pirates....[W]e have been able to deny the pirates the use of mother ships from which they can base their attacks at significant ranges from the shore." [31]
The Americas
On April 15 NATO's Allied Command Transformation (ACT), established after the 2002 summit in Prague and located in Norfolk, Virginia, hosted nearly 100 Latin American students from the Washington, DC-based Inter-American Defense College (IADC).
Chief of Staff at NATO's Allied Command Transformation, British Royal Navy Vice Admiral Robert Cooling, while addressing the attendees said, "This is an exciting time for Allied Command Transformation because this is the first time that we have welcomed your course here.â€
The ACT website added that the Inter-American Defense College course is "a graduate-level study for senior military and government officials and provides an opportunity to study global security issues. Students develop these competencies through the study of political, economic, social and military factors. Visits such as this help the students further understand the role of ACT and the NATO Alliance." [32]
The World
Late last year the president of the United States, Barack Obama, acknowledged and embraced the status of commander-in-chief of the world's sole military superpower. Few in the world appeared to be alarmed, offended or even distressed by this unprecedented claim to international preeminence based on the superiority of armed might. Nor has there been an outcry at home or abroad over the Pentagon's World War II-level $708 billion budget for next year.
Neither is there any concern, much less outrage, that the U.S.-led NATO military bloc has fanned out from the North Atlantic Ocean region to all compass points and has staked out the entire planet as its area of responsibility.
The world has deferred if not fully subscribed to NATO's grandiose and aggressive global strategy: That a Western military bloc whose officials are not elected by or accountable to any nation or people is empowered to intervene anywhere in the world with deadly force at its own discretion.
When this year's NATO summit convenes in Lisbon, Portugal in November to formalize the Alliance's new 21st century world military doctrine, to enclose the European continent under a U.S. interceptor missile canopy, and to continue what is already the largest and longest war in the world in South Asia, the protesters confronting the political and military leaders of NATO will be a - very small - fraction of the number of people who would attend a Britney Spears concert in the same city.
Most all of the world has reconciled and submitted itself to the domination of one global military superpower and its equally global military alliance with barely a murmur. An unparalleled political and moral capitulation.
1) Washington Post, May 23, 2004
2) Nine O'Clock News (Romania), April 3, 2008
3) Ibid
4) NATO In Persian Gulf: From Third World War To Istanbul
Stop NATO, February 6, 2009
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/nato-in-persian-gulf-from-third-world-war-to-istanbul
5) U.S. Department of State, March 30, 2006
6) Ibid
7) U.S. State Department, February 24, 2006
8) Ibid
9) Global Military Bloc: NATO’s Drive Into Asia
Stop NATO, January 24, 2009
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/global-military-bloc-natos-drive-into-asia
10) Afghan War: NATO Builds History’s First Global Army
Stop NATO, August 9, 2009
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/afghan-war-nato-builds-historys-first-global-army
11) Reuters, April 15, 2010
12) U.S. Air Forces in Europe, April 14, 2010
13) North Atlantic Treaty Organization, April 14, 2010
14) United States Navy, April 13, 2010
15) BBC News, April 11, 2010
16) United States Navy, April 13, 2010
17) United States European Command, April 14, 2010
18) Ibid
19) Focus News Agency, April 17, 2010
20) Lithuania Officer of the Chief of Defence, April 15, 2010
21) North Atlantic Treaty Organization, April 19, 2010
22) Fox News, April 16, 2010
23) USA TODAY, April 15, 2010
24) Helsingin Sanomat, April 16, 2010
25) Agence France-Presse, April 18, 2010
26) North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
April 13, 2010
27) North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
April 14, 2010
28) North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO Training Mission - Iraq
April 15, 2010
29) North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO Training Mission - Iraq
April 15, 2010
30) U.S. Department of Defense, April 16, 2010
31) Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2)
Allied Maritime Component Command Headquarters Northwood
April 15, 2010
32) North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Transformation
April 15, 2010
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Attacco Immediato Globale: la superiorità militare senza armi nuc
Posted by: "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff@yahoo.com rwrozoff
Tue Apr 20, 2010 5:47 pm (PDT)
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Stop NATO
April 20, 2010
Attacco Immediato Globale: la superiorità militare mondiale senza armi nucleari
Rick Rozoff
Si può vincere una guerra senza farla. Si può vincere se un avversario sa che è vulnerabile ad un attacco istantaneo ed imprevisto, sconvolgente e devastante, senza la possibilità di difendersi o di reagire.
Ciò che vale per un determinato paese si applica anche a tutti i potenziali avversari, anzi per qualsiasi altra nazione del mondo.
Esiste un solo paese con la capacità militare e scientifica e che ha annunciato apertamente la sua intenzione di raggiungere tale capacità.
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NATO Trains Azeri Troops At Home, Abroad; Pentagon In U.S.
Posted by: "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff@yahoo.com rwrozoff
Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:02 pm (PDT)
http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=120319
Azeri Press Agency
April 19, 2010
Azerbaijani servicemen to attend NATO events
Rashad Suleymanov
Baku: Azerbaijani servicemen will attend series of a events organized within the Individual Partnership Action Programs signed with NATO and a number of countries, the press service of Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry told APA.
A Mobile Training Course of the NATO Standardization Experts Group will be held in Baku on April 20-22.
Defense attaches accredited in Slovenia will visit the Slovenian Armed Forces’ Training Center on April 21-22.
Ukrainian and Azerbaijani delegations on Organizing Mobilization will hold a working meeting in Kiev, Ukraine on April 22-23 within the bilateral cooperation plan.
According to the Azerbaijan-US action plan, Azerbaijani servicemen will attend a communication course in San Antonio, USA from April 21 to December 15, a UN military observers training course in Ankara, Turkey from April 26 to May 14, a training course on multinational peacekeeping operations in the Czech Republic from April 26 to June 4, and course on combating human trafficking in Ankara, Turkey from April 26 to May 7, 2010.
The Cooperative Marlin 2010 training conference will take place in Bar, Montenegro on April 28-29.
According to the Azerbaijan-Turkey bilateral partnership program, an ADOP program implementation course and army and corps fire support experience program will be carried out in Atish, Turkey on April 26-28.
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Pentagon Reiterates: No Missile Shield Restrictions In START II
Posted by: "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff@yahoo.com rwrozoff
Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:02 pm (PDT)
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view.bg?articleid=1248634&srvc=rss
Associated Press
April 20, 2010
US: No missile defense restrictions in new treaty
WASHINGTON: A U.S military official is denying Russian claims that a new nuclear treaty includes restrictions on missile defense systems.
Russia says an arms reduction treaty it signed with the United States this month includes restrictions on missile defense.
But the head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, Lt. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly, told the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday that the treaty’s references to missile defense are not legally binding.
Russia strongly opposes U.S. plans to deploy a missile defense system in Europe, even though the U.S. says it is intended to stop missiles from Iran, not Russia. It has threatened to pull out of the treaty if it is threatened by the system.
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BRIC Ready To Recast World Order
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Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:03 pm (PDT)
http://top.rbc.ru/english/index.shtml?/news/english/2010/04/16/16170115_bod.shtml
RosBusinessConsulting
April 19, 2010
BRIC ready to recast world order
The summit of the world’s top emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India and China) closed in Brasilia today. All the BRIC leaders came together, for the second time in history, to address various ways to overcome the consequences of the crisis, gear up for the G20 meeting and make the case for a new financial world order.
First coined by Goldman Sachs back in 2001, the term “BRIC†only gained full political and financial prestige in the beginning of the U.S. credit crunch in 2007. The recession that plagued developed countries pushed the emerging economies to the forefront as growth leaders and fundamentally changed the balance of forces on the global arena. BRIC countries have repeatedly called for a new world order in which emerging economies would have more say.
This time around was no exception. BRIC countries unanimously agreed that they had the right to more influence in such international organizations as the World Bank and the IMF. They also urged that reforms be initiated by the next G20 summit in November.
The parties also signed a memorandum outlining ways for the global economy to recover from the aftermath of the financial crisis. They placed special emphasis on preserving the stability of the main reserve currencies and counteracting any form of protectionism to ensure free trade.
On the summit’s sidelines, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao to ventilate business cooperation and international issues. President Medvedev offered China any assistance, on any scale, that Russia could provide in connection with the earthquake in the country’s Qinghai province. In turn, the Chinese leader said that he appreciated Medvedev’s consent to cut the summit short, since the earthquake forced him to return home immediately. Notably, both parties set much store by Sino-Russian relations.
Before he set off for China, however, Hu Jintao met with Brazilian leader Luiz Lula da Silva, and the countries managed to strike a number of deals to further develop bilateral partnerships, including those in trade and energy. For one, China is set to build a steel factory in Brazil, and is also interested in developing railway service in the country.
Another important step forward made at the summit was a memorandum of cooperation signed between the Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs State Corporation (Vnesheconombank), Export-Import Bank of India, China Development Bank and the National Bank for Social and Economic Development of Brazil (BNDES). Under the memorandum, the first practical document within the BRIC format effectively aimed at creating an efficient funding infrastructure for multilateral trade, economic and investment cooperation, authorized financial development and exports support institutions will band together to work out funding schemes, including those for high-tech, innovative and energy efficiency projects, the Russian bank’s press office said.
Vnesheconombank’s CEO Vladimir Dmitriyev also announced that the bank was currently in talks with Brazil’s BNDES and aircraft manufacturer Embraer over a joint project to design and build a 50-seat jet for Russia's regional air forces. The deal could involve a license to produce the jets, particularly at Tatarstan’s Kazan-based aircraft building plant, Dmitriyev clarified. Investment in such a project could reach hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Russia Orders Military To Protect Citizens In Kyrgyzstan
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Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:03 pm (PDT)
http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?pg=2&id=159891
Interfax
April 20, 2010
Medvedev orders military to take measures to protect Russians in Kyrgyzstan
MOSCOW: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov to take measures to protect Russian citizens and Russian facilities in Kyrgyzstan due to increasingly frequent violent attempts to seize property in the Central Asian country, the Kremlin said.
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http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/04/20/6680122.html
Voice of Russia
April 20, 2010
Medvedev orders to ensure security of Russian citizens in Kyrgyzstan
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov to ensure security of Russian citizens in Kyrgyzstan and to strengthen protection of Russian buildings in that country after recent attacks against Russian speaking people and corporate raids.
According to the Kremlin press service, Russia's Defense Ministry has sent around 150 servicemen to Kyrgyzstan.
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http://www.rbcnews.com/free/20100419153800.shtml
RosBusinessConsulting
April 19, 2010
Kyrgyzstan rioters use anti-Russian slogans
Bishkek: According to eyewitnesses, Bishkek's police were able to stop a crowd advancing towards government offices, while the number of people taking part in the riot went down.
Unofficial sources attributed the success partly to the appeals of Mayor of Kyrgyzstan's capital Isa Omurkulov, who tried to negotiate with the people. The crowd was diverted from the center of Bishkek and marched on to its suburb - the Mayovka village.
There have been reports of unauthorized seizures of land from Bishkek's suburbs, where occupants are using anti-Russian mottos, Press Secretary for Russia's embassy to Kyrgyzstan Viktor Kharchenko told RBC. According to Kharchenko, there have already been casualties.
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Coup In Kyrgyzstan, Drugs From Afghanistan And The U.S.
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Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:04 pm (PDT)
http://en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2942
Strategic Culture Foundation
April 20, 2010
Coup in Kyrgyzstan, Drugs from Afghanistan, and the US
Anatoly Aliferov
While the Kyrgyz interim government was searching for the bank accounts of ousted President K. Bakiev, and Belorussian President A. Lukashenko invited him to settle down in Belarus, Moscow bloggers published a sensational finding: they unearthed evidence that the coup in Kyrgyzstan was backed by the US and that the whole intrigue revolves around the transit of drugs from Afghanistan.
On April 18, Oriental Review, an English-language blog based in Russia, published a text titled "Kyrgyzstan Destined To Become Another Narco-State?" It points to the facts that drug crops in Afghanistan surged since the dispatch of the US and NATO forces to the country and that neighboring Kyrgyzstan became the key transit hub on the route - known as the Great Heroin Way - via which drugs from Afghanistan are delivered to Europe and Asia.
The author of the text wrote: “Most likely the illicit profits proceeding from narco-trafficking were the main sources of the spectacular enrichment of Bakiev’s clan during his presidency in 2005-2010. There was extensive evidence that the very arrival of Kurmanbek Bakiev to power in March 2005 as a result of ‘Tulip revolution’ was financed and supported by the prosperous international narco-mafia.â€
The blogger maintains that in 2010, just as in 2005, “the geostrategic interests of the US and the international narco-mafia happily merged again....It was only logical for the US establishment to use the services of narco-barons to overthrow Bakiev, who demanded from the US more and more pay-offs for his loyalty....â€
A similar view was expressed by writer and commentator Alexander Prokhanov in the April 16 broadcast of the Ekho Moskvy radio station: “The revolution in Kyrgyzstan was...a revolution organized by the drug business. It replaced Akaev's regime with Bakiev's one, and now Bakiev's regime â€" with the regime of the notorious Roza [Otunbayeva]. Kyrgyzstan remains the key route of drug-trafficking to Russia†.
Drug barons are extremely influential in Kyrgyzstan. There are estimates suggesting that the areas used to cultivate poppy in the republic are comparable in size to those in Afghanistan.
This is just one of the pertinent circumstances.
Another is that Kyrgyzstan hosts the [formerly named] Ganci Air Base operated by the US Air Force at the Manas airport in Bishkek.
The base is an important transit point for the supply of US forces in Afghanistan.
The third pertinent circumstance is that Kyrgyz human rights watch groups have stated a number of times that the base also serves as a transit hub in a global drug trafficking network.
When one of such statement was made in September, 2009, China's People's Daily cautiously expressed agreement with the view held by Kyrgyz human rights activists â€" it quoted experts as saying that the Manas base in Kyrgyzstan could be used by the foreign military to transit drugs from Afghanistan.
The Oriental Review blogger substantiated his claim concerning the common interests of the US and the international drug mafia in the case of the coup in Kyrgyzstan by pointing to a fact that remained unnoticed so far but can actually be regarded as material evidence.
On April 7, Great Britain's The Daily Telegraph featured a set pictures taken at the time of the recent bloody riots in Bishkek. One of them shows an insurgent firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle near a government building.
A striking detail that can be discerned in the picture is “the HWS (holographic weapon sight) attached to the AK gun in the hands of an opposition fighter†which is “the product of the US L-3 Communications EOTech Corporation, 500 series, retail price 600 USD each one (four average monthly salaries in Kyrgyzstan)†.
Based at the University of Michigan, EOTech has been a supplier of holographic weapon sights since 1996.
According to the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), exporting the weapon requires licenses from the US Department of State and from the US Department of Commerce.
Upon being tested by the army, a number of such sights were supplied to the forces in Afghanistan and a few more to US police. The device has never been officially exported to Kyrgyzstan or Russia.
Therefore, a machine gun with the US-made sight could not be seized by an insurgent from the Kyrgyz special forces during the riots. Thus, The Daily Telegraph picture provides evidence that the coup in Kyrgyzstan was materially supported using a US military base sited in Afghanistan or in Kyrgyzstan.
Naturally, this had to be a violation of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and of the US arms export regulations. Well, obviously the game was worth it. Afghanistan's poppy output rose by a factor of 40 (!) - from 185 to 8,200 tons a year over the first six years of the US occupation. It is a safe bet that major developments are brewing in the Afghan-Kyrgyz direction.
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After Reshuffle, CIA Still Keeps Eye On Russia
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Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:04 pm (PDT)
http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/04/20/6672937.html
Voice of Russia
April 20, 2010
What’s behind the CIA reshuffle?
-The CIA is actively soliciting Poland’s, Georgia’s and Baltic countries’ intelligence in anti-Russian operations.
Washington reports that first deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Steve Kappes will quit this May, and Michael Morell the Director of Intelligence, will be promoted to this position.
Thus, the second spot in the CIA passes from an investigator to an analyst. While Kappes worked directly with US intelligence agents in various countries, Morell was dealing with intelligence data without being personally involved in gathering it. According to CIA Director Leon Panetta, Morell knows the CIA from top to bottom after 30 years of service he is a worthy substitute for Kappes. Kappes’ retirement was expected. He has already applied for retirement twice and both times Barack Obama personally talked him into staying.
Kappes’ career was somehow dimed by scandals involving intelligence officers in “third degrees†in foreign CIA secret prisons. Only Kappes’ friendship with Panetta saved him from big trouble but his retirement was already a foregone conclusion.
The real reasons for the changes in CIA senior leadership remain well-concealed. However, Morell’s promotion is considered to rearrange the CIA’s operations in the sphere of collecting intelligence data.
There is an opinion that the CIA may return to the former principle when data analysis will affect its collection not vice versa. Some information says that Morell may replace Panetta in due time. Barack Obama criticized the CIA for its faults and poor anti-terrorist activity, namely for the fact that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is still missing.
Michael Morell seems to face new duties to implement the new CIA strategy which was recently made public. Among traditional economic and political intelligence, non-proliferation, the fight against terrorism and drugs the CIA is now in the fight against cyber aggression, first of all China’s, and provide for intelligence in Iraq, Iran and other hot spots.
The media says the White House is not quite pleased with the data collected by the CIA in hot spots, especially in the Middle East, Iran, the Caucasus and Central Asia. The CIA seems to understand its faults and thus is conducting training of skilled personnel who can speak Arabic, Farsi and Chinese. Such professionals even get extra for speaking one of these languages.
The CIA also continues to keep an eye on its traditional rival â€" Russia. Despite the reset of bilateral relations, Russia’s special services have recently noted that the CIA has become more active on the country’s territory. It pays much attention to Russia’s domestic policy and military-economic potential.
The CIA is actively soliciting Poland’s, Georgia’s and Baltic countries’ intelligence in anti-Russian operations. In this case it should be mentioned that the reset should touch upon all spheres since it has proclaimed. Moreover, the two countries have enough areas for cooperation, including anti-terrorist activity, non-proliferation and drug trafficking. No changes in the CIA should hinder this cooperation.
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Saakashvili At Harvard: "Georgia And Black Sea Security"
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Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:14 pm (PDT)
http://rustavi2.com/news/news_text.php?id_news=36555&pg=1&im=main&ct=0&wth=
Rustavi 2
April 20, 2010
Saakashvili delivers speech at Harvard Kennedy School
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili painted a picture of Georgia`s economic and political liberalization in the past five years last night during a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.
`There is no way back to the Soviet Union,` SaakasHvili said, adding that Georgia has instead embarked on a transformative journey by embracing democratic reforms and economic openness. `There is no way out other than total social transformation and integration into Western society.`
In his address entitled `Georgia and Black Sea Security,` Saakashvili expanded the concept of national security to incorporate the relationship between security, democracy, and legal systems. Though he touched on the issue of Georgia-Russia relations in light of the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, he said that military strength alone would not ensure security for his country.
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`Governments are not smarter than markets,` Saakashvili said. `Our experience has been that with less intervention in the economy, there has been more energy.`
Georgia is now taking a path radically different from that of its past, Saakashvili said at the end of his address. `We are speaking about a long process,` the president said....
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Georgian Troops Serve NATO In Afghanistan
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Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:19 pm (PDT)
http://www.mod.gov.ge/index.php?page=77&lang=1&type=1&Id=521
Georgia Ministry of Defence
April 16, 2010
Visit in Afghanistan
Chairperson of the Georgian Parliament Davit Bakradze arrived in Afghanistan to visit the Georgian military servicemen deployed for the peacekeeping mission there.
Together with the deputies accompanying him, Mr. Bakradze inspected the military base in Kabul, where a company of the GAF [Georgian Armed Forces] is engaged in [an] operation integrated into the French military contingent.
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“When we saw our soldiers carrying the Georgian national flag on their shoulders, we felt full of pride, as they are indeed our valuable and brave soldiers, with a high level of combat preparation†, declared Parliament Chairperson Davit Bakradze in an interview with journalists.
The company of the 23 Battalion has been engaged in the peace support mission in Kabul since November 2009. The Georgian military unit was stationed there to ensure the security of NATO 15 members' and partner nations' military servicemen deployed in the French military base. As Captain Anton Kutateladze pointed out, the Georgian troops are successfully fulfilling their duties in the province.
Within the framework of the visit, Georgian delegation led by Davit Bakradze also met with the chairperson of the Afghan Senate, Mr. Sibghatullah Mojaddedi. Later on, the delegation departed for ISAF Headquarters to discuss ISAF operation details with top NATO military officials.
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Georgia Begins Compulsory Military Indoctrination In Schools
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Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:24 pm (PDT)
http://rustavi2.com/news/news_text.php?id_news=36552&pg=1&im=main&ct=0&wth=
Rustavi 2
April 19, 2010
The Civil Defence and Safety classrooms will be Opened at Schools
The Minister of Education and Science Dimitri Shashkini and the Defence Minister, Bacho Akhalaia, attended the opening ceremony of the civil defence and safety classrooms at Mtskheta public school No. 2.
This is a pilot program. At the first stage, the civil defence and safety classrooms will be opened in 15 schools in Rustavi, Mtskheta and Tbilisi.
According to the President’s initiative, the Ministry of Education and Science developed the new educational course for civil defence and safety in the framework of the second phase of the educational reform.
The new program envisages the following issues: civil defence, road safety, first aid, history of the Georgian army and review of Georgian armaments.
The representatives of the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as representatives of the Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural resources and foreign experts are involved in the working process together with representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science.
Based on specially developed methodology, the pilot schools have been selected in order to teach civil defence and safety. According to the analyses of the pilot results, the civil defence and the safety course will be finally developed. This subject will become compulsory at schools from the next academic year.
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Ukraine Extends Russian Black Sea Fleet Term For 25 More Years
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Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:06 am (PDT)
http://en.rian.ru/world/20100421/158685442.html
Russian Information Agency Novosti
April 21, 2010
Russia Black Sea Fleet presence in Ukraine extended for 25 more years
KHARKOV: Ukraine has agreed to extend the term of Russian Black Sea Fleet presence in the country's Crimea for 25 more years, the Russian president said on Wednesday.
The new agreement, signed after talks between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych, also stipulates the extension for an additional five years after the term expires.
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New York: Georgia's Saakashvili Reminisces With Bloomberg, Trump
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Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:13 am (PDT)
http://rustavi2.com/news/news_text.php?id_news=36571&pg=1&im=main&ct=0&wth=
Rustavi 2
April 21, 2010
Georgian president met Trump and Bloomberg in NY
Mikheil Saakashvili has met with an American business magnate and multi-billionaire Donald Trump in New York and the mayor of the city, Michael Bloomberg.
Donald John Trump, who is an American business magnate, socialite, author and television personality, rarely meets political leaders, but he met Mikheil Saakashvili, who says it means that very serious people now show interest to Georgia, the country which was developing.
Trump is the Chairman and CEO of the Trump Organization, a US-based real-estate developer. Trump is also the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts, which operates numerous casinos and hotels across the world.
After meeting with the magnate, Saakashvili talked with the journalists and emphasized the significance of this meeting. He said the fact that along with his visit to the United States, CNN International began broadcast of TV stories about Georgia proved that the country has been promoted and the interest to it was growing.
Saakashvili also recollected his student years in New York and said the city has become much secure today and it was the result of the work of new authorities, who did more than before.
After the meeting with the mayor of New York, Saakashvili said that he had some good ideas, like prohibiting smoking in public places and making wearing seat belts for drivers and passengers obligatory.
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