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...Shave it off,” Bras says instantly. She’s joking—sort of. Bras’ parents met at a military base in Texas. Her mother was an Air Force nurse, her father a Dutch pilot serving in the US through a NATO exchange. Discipline, especially on her father’s side, was an important part of Bras’ upbringing. If something went wrong with the car when her family was on a road trip, her father would recite aloud the steps he had been taught for dealing with an airborne crisis...
...More troubling events are almost certain in the months ahead. The Canadian deployment is the knife edge of an international strategy to shift the management of "stabilization" operations in southern Afghanistan from U.S. forces to the nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)--the transition is expected to be completed this summer--and Taliban rebels are already probing for weak spots in coalition defenses. "The insurgents are learning as they go," says Christian Willach, manager of the Afghanistan ngo Safety Organization. "In the coming months everyone is going to have a harder time...
...violence is surging at a time when the U.S. military is hoping to draw down its 19,000-member force in Afghanistan and turn over responsibility for much of the troubled south to NATO forces. Washington also hopes the newly trained Afghan army, which has 35,000 troops, will assume a greater role. But in places like Helmand province, where few Afghan or foreign troops were stationed, the main burden of fending off the insurgents has fallen to an Afghan police force that is poorly trained and often overmatched by the Taliban. Says Sam Zia-Zarifi, research director of Human...
...next two or three weeks. Also, the failure to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal is likely to complicate negotiations over the future status of Kosovo, which opened last week in Vienna. Serbia desperately wants to keep some sovereignty over the independence-minded province, which was placed under UN and NATO control after a brief bloody war in 1999. "Entering the talks as a country which harbors war criminals is seriously damaging our position," Serbia and Montenegro's foreign minister Vuk Draskovic admitted in a recent interview...
...Atlanticists kicked off a major official effort to bring the MLF into being,” Yoo wrote. “Cables went out to European capitals proclaiming that Johnson had made the MLF the heart of his NATO policy...