My fascination with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is well-documented and not likely to stop anytime soon. As President Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev finalize the most comprehensive mutual nuclear-weapons reduction treaty in 20 years — much more on that later today — Rasmussen tweets a few More…
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary-general of the NATO alliance, told an audience at Georgetown University today that “this year” the alliance’s military command in Afghanistan “will be able to start transferring security responsibilities to the Afghans themselves” — well ahead of President Obama’s “strategic inflection point” of handovers beginning in More…
I suppose Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s heart is in the right place, but, um.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday the Western military bloc is seeking greater Russian assistance for international operations in Afghanistan.
Speaking to reporters after talks with President Dmitry Medvedev, Rasmussen said he was
As the NATO foreign ministerial summit in Brussels opens with a pledge of 7,000 new allied troops for Afghanistan, hawkish secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen himself pledges that NATO’s “new momentum” for the war is about much more than troop commitments. From his Washington Post op-ed today:
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary-general, said yesterday that he has received pledges from partner nations for an additional 5,000 troops in advance of tomorrow’s NATO foreign ministerial meeting in Brussels. He added that “several thousand” more may be possible. But if the ministerial concludes with the 5,000 troops More…
It’s been one of the most anticipated moments of the Afghanistan debate in Washington: when the commander of U.S. and NATO forces will testify before Congress about the Obama administration’s strategy. Recall that earlier this fall, Republican members tried to bring Gen. Stanley McChrystal to the Hill ahead of President More…
Minutes after I published that post profiling the hawkishness of NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former Danish prime minister posted a new video to his NATO blog denouncing the Taliban and saying that Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s “extra measures” to reduce civilian casualties in Afghanistan. “This approach More…
Last week, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of NATO, openly advocated a counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan during a NATO defense ministerial conference. It was a curious position to take. The NATO secretary generalship is an institutionally weak position, commanding no ability to order allied countries to do anything, More…
OK, it’s officially NATO-in-Afghanistan Day at The Streak. Matthew Yglesias notes the hawkishness of Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary general, and writes that Rasmussen appears “considerably more hawkish in his rhetoric on Afghanistan than Barack Obama is.” I don’t quite know what accounts for that, but Yglesias More…
One consequence of the Obama administration’s weeks-long review of Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy is that European allies are unclear about their role, even as they’re being asked to contribute greater resources. There’s a meeting today in Slovakia of NATO defense ministers, complete with a briefing from Gen. Stanley McChrystal, that More…
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