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28/03/2011 | 1 comments
Not surprisingly, I've received a lot of questions about what is happening in Libya in both my capacity as Commander of the United States European Command (USEUCOM) and as the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR).

22/03/2011 | 0 comments
Amidst all the attention, appropriately, to Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Japan, Yemen and other ongoing events around the world, there was an important and noteworthy development in Afghanistan yesterday.

14/03/2011 | 0 comments
We just finished an excellent two-day meeting in Brussels with the 28 NATO Defense Ministers -- including, of course, my bosses Secretary of Defense Bob Gates and Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The meeting focused on one expected challenge -- Afghanistan -- and one new issue, Libya.

02/03/2011 | 1 comments
A few weeks ago, I referred to myself as a "strategist” during a speech. This prompted someone to ask me what "strategy” means to me. What a superb question! So often the word is overused…it seems almost everything is "strategic” these days. And yet, in our business and in my current job, strategy is at the heart of what we do.