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...Washington A New Warlord in Afghanistan General David McKiernan is being replaced as the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan by three-star Army Lieut. General Stanley McChrystal. It's the first dismissal of a wartime general since that of Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War. The appointment of McChrystal, a former special-ops chief credited with orchestrating the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, signifies a more pointed, aggressive military posture in Afghanistan...
...home to 1.7 million opiate addicts, a burden that Iran and the West have a mutual incentive in combating. As part of the new tone from Washington, President Obama's Afghan strategy calls for a regional approach to secure Afghanistan, one that would be disadvantaged by Iranian non-participation. NATO partners are pushing for direct engagement with Tehran, possibly through a "contact group...
...Georgia AN INCONVENIENT MUTINY Armored tanks rushed to break up a revolt by some 500 soldiers on a military base in Mukhrovani, one day before NATO embarked on sensitive military exercises nearby. Officials painted the mutiny as a covert Russian coup attempt, which Moscow flatly denied. The uprising comes at a bad time for President Mikheil Saakashvili, who faces mass protests calling for his resignation over his handling of last year's war with Russia...
...military force to solve emerging problems cannot be excluded," reads the strategy paper, which was signed by President Dmitri Medvedev on Wednesday. It adds: "This could destroy the balance of forces on the borders of Russia and those of its allies." The paper also addresses the future of NATO and nuclear proliferation, as well as domestic social issues. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
...even as it presents a friendlier Russia, the document makes some sharp comments about NATO and the nuclear balance. "International security is increasingly threatened by the truly inadequate existing global and regional security architecture, as well as international legal instruments and mechanisms for its security," the paper reads. "Particularly evident is the failure of the security architecture in the Euro-Atlantic region, represented mainly by NATO and the OSCE." At the same time, it slams U.S. foreign policy without actually calling out the U.S. by name, claiming that Russia?s military security is jeopardized ?by the efforts...