The success of President Obama’s planned surge of 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan will likely depend on support from an unlikely ally; Russia. On January 20, the same day Barak Obama was sworn in as President, CENTCOM Commander General David Petreus concluded his Central Asian tour and announced from Pakistan that agreements to transit [...]
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Norway’s Defense Ministry said Russia has informed it that it plans to cut all military ties with NATO. Ministry spokeswoman Heidi Langvik-Hansen said the country’s embassy received a telephone call from Russia’s Defense Ministry on Wednesday, saying Moscow plans “to freeze all military cooperation with NATO and allied countries.” Norway was told in the telephone call a [...] What began on August 7 as a reckless act of aggression by Georgia to bludgeon the separatist province of South Ossetia into submission, quickly escalated to Russian military intervention in Georgia, and the conflict’s transformation into a proxy war between the U.S. and Moscow. What’s at stake in this conflict is not Georgia’s sovereignty [...] The Russian military invasion of Georgia’s South Ossetia and Abkhazia’s provinces on Thursday, August 7 represented a brazen move to reclaim and incorporate both separatist regions into the Russia federation. Under the guise of coming to South Ossetia and Abkhazia aid from the Georgian government’s atrocities, Moscow quickly moved 10,000 troops into the regions by [...] |
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