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...than it was two years ago," says a NATO official. "Then the whole thing appeared to hang by a thread." In the Latvian capital, tensions ran high over the inequitable commitments of NATO members to military operations in Afghanistan - what the countries with sizable troop deployments in dangerous areas refer to as "burden sharing." Those tensions remain, but a commitment by France to send up to 1,000 troops to eastern Afghanistan, made before this summit and confirmed on Thursday, has alleviated immediate concerns over a fracture in the Alliance. Canada has threatened to withdraw its forces from the dangerous...
...frontline” of grant advising. But Jost says that “thesis research grants aren’t really emphasized” in the fellowship tutor training. “My job is to help inform people, send out deadline reminders, and refer people to places where they can get answers,” Jost says of summer thesis research grants. Without any institutional advising, students like Kwong are left to learn mostly through trial and error. “I never get grants from The Weatherhead Center [for International Affairs] because they’re looking...
...trainers, working at times apparently with experienced instructors from the Lebanese militia Hizballah, also instruct Iraqi recruits in intelligence techniques, sniper shooting and kidnapping operations before transporting them back across the border. Once in Iraq again, militants who have undergone Iranian training reportedly form cells that U.S. officials now refer to as "special groups." These cells, say U.S. officials, continue to receive funds, weapons and direction from the Quds Force as they mount attacks in Iraq against American troops...
...bank accounts, to family members, to companies with no activity in their annual accounts, to service providers with irrelevant activities like the provision of child care and the trading of wood, and - in one case - a Christmas bonus worth 19 times the assistant's monthly salary. The auditors also refer to abuse of travel costs and expenses...
...China." So on Monday, the Pentagon turned out a 66-page report to help Congress foster its own fears. It's part of a symbiotic relationship: Congress orders the study, and then lawmakers get to cite it as justification for buying more weapons. Some in national-security circles refer to the phenomenon as a "self-licking ice cream cone...