Panetta To Meet Northern Route Leaders As Pakistani Roads Remain Uncertain

CHICAGO: With Pakistan continuing to send mixed signals about whether and when it would reopen supply routes to NATO, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta plans to meet tomorrow with representatives of five countries who make the so-called Northern Routes into and out of Afghanistan possible. Panetta “will meet tomorrow with five countries that support the…

‘A Crucial Summit At A Crucial Time’; Denmark Joins NATO AGS Program

CHICAGO: Where do we find the money to pay for defense in a time of austerity and how do we leave Afghanistan gracefully. That sums up the two main threads of the second NATO summit held in America. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters this morning that this is a “crucial summit at…

The Deep Dish On The NATO Summit

CHICAGO: Air shows and NATO summits deserve their own color coverage if only because they are often so much more interesting when viewed from the participant’s point of view, so here goes. First, in the interests of full disclosure, I am an unabashed Chicago lover and this summit looks, so far, to be good for…