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The war in Ukraine has underscored the growing geopolitical interdependence between the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions. For one, China has helped Russia cushion Western economic and political pressure. Indeed, Beijing’s image in Europe (which has been on a downward trajectory for years) has tanked as the perception of tacit support for Moscow’s assault on theThe war in Ukraine has underscored the growing geopolitical interdependence between the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions. For one, China has helped Russia cushion Western economic and political pressure. Indeed, Beijing�...

News From Antiwar.com The U.S. State Department announced on July 16 that Washington has formed what has been characterized as a regional platform – could one be more vague? – with Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan is a member of NATO’s Partnership for Peace military program and Afghanistan and Pakistan are members of the military alliance’s Partners Across the Globe. The U.S. of course is the founder and unchallenged master of the bloc. Pakistan has hosted U.S. military personnel, equipment and spy planes since the beginning of the Cold War, and during that period was ...

Pakistani Navy Participates in US-NATO Black Sea War Games Pakistan’s Those nations include a majority of NATO’s thirty member states and several members of various NATO partnership programs: Australia (Partners Across the Globe), Egypt (Mediterranean Dialogue), Georgia (Partnership for Peace/Enhanced Opportunity Partners), Japan (Partners Across the Globe), Moldova (Partnership for Peace), Morocco (Mediterranean Dialogue), Pakistan (Partners Across the Globe), South Korea (Partners Across the Globe), Sweden (Partnership for Peace/Enhanced Opportunity Partners), Tunisia (Mediterranean Di...

News From Antiwar.com After the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. the North Atlantic Treaty Organization activated its Article 5 mutual military assistance clause for the first time. That action led to the military bloc’s involvement in the war in Afghanistan as well as operations in and deployments to Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. At peak strength NATO had over 100,000 troops from more than fifty countries serving under it in the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. The Article 5 activation was also used to deploy naval v...

News From Antiwar.com An Iraqi government delegation visited NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium to discuss the thirty-nation military bloc’s continued role in the Middle East nation. In what is perhaps an unprecedentedly high-level visit, Iraq’s prime minister, defense minister and foreign minister – Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Jumaah Saadoon and Fuad Hussein, respectively – met with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The foreign minister was at NATO headquarters this March as well. Although the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and Britain in 2003 was not a NATO operation, the military ...