NATO of the Living Dead

If transatlantic relations were a Hallowe'en party, NATO could come as a zombie. Like the living dead, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization refuses to expire despite chronic neglect of its security commitments, the facts of which were most recently detailed in a confidential report by the Danish Defense Force (DDF) on last year’s air assault on Libya. The report, accidentally released last week to the press, faulted NATO’s inability “to provide reliable intelligence on targets or to c...

Read more »

An Unlikely Intervention

This article does not in any sense recommend military intervention in Syria. But it is essential that hypothetical options are considered systematically as much to inform decisions not to intervene as to offer this possibility. If, as is likely, the Assad regime continues its slaughter of civilians, there will be growing political pressure on governments across the world to ‘do something about it’.  Since the early 1990s the international community has increasingly accepted that the res...

Read more »