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...ready to address the newest dangers. "NATO needs to pivot from an inward focus to an outward one, because the greatest threats we face are no longer from within Europe, but from the region stretching from North Africa to Central Asia," says Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to NATO. "The big threat is the nexus of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction." In Prague, NATO will commit to transforming itself into an alliance that can respond rapidly to that threat. It needs fewer tank brigades and more special forces; fewer regional air bases and more long-range aircraft; a leaner...
...that force slated to begin early next year, and the next mission there may be an explicitly NATO one. Far harder to imagine is a specific role for NATO in an Iraq war. "At Prague, we're looking for a vigorous statement of political unity about Iraq," says U.S. Ambassador Burns. But in operational terms, Iraq is the elephant in the conference room. Let's assume the Europeans make good on their promises to give NATO the power to act in distant theaters. That doesn't mean they'll actually want to fight those battles. As the Iraq debate...
...criticisms: the sorry state of the country's troops and matériel, the lack of transparency in the way military contracts were doled out, and Hungary's lukewarm contribution to the war on terror. "We wasted three valuable years," says András Simonyi, Hungary's former ambassador to NATO and its current ambassador to the U.S. "We failed to speed up - much less to achieve - the much-touted reform of our military. Hungary today is not better equipped to contribute to the alliance than it was the day we joined." The Hungarian military remains, in the words...
...movie stirred mild dismay among the Buddhist faithful in Nong Khai, home of the actual fireballs. But the ITV documentary has sparked a full-fledged furor. Local politicians have threatened to sue ITV for more than $23 million; incensed residents staged a protest march; and Laos' ambassador to Thailand, Hiam Promjan, said his country was "shocked" by the claim. Real or fake, there seems to be little doubt about the incendiary properties of the fiery orbs...
Martin Palou, Czech ambassador to the U.S., said the struggles that Central European nations face reflect the challenges of global democratization...