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Thursday Frigate Blogging

By Robert Farley

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On September 18, 2008

Meet SPS Almirante Juan de Bourbon. She is 6200 ton AEGIS frigate (more of a destroyer, really), capable of 29 knots and armed with SM-2 Standard surface-to-air missiles, Harpoon surface-to-surface missiles, and anti-submarine torpedos. SPS Almirante Juan de Bourbon (named after King Juan Carlos' father)...

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Whither NATO Revisited

By Robert Farley

On August 20, 2008

I'm not sure I get all of this handwringing over the NATO response to the war between Russia and Georgia. There is a really simple, clearly understandable explanation for why.

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Whither NATO?

By Robert Farley

On August 15, 2008

I have an article up at TAP on NATO and the Russia-Georgia war.

Canada’s Contribution

By Robert Farley

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On May 5, 2008

Back in 2005 I sat on a panel at the University of Kentucky library on the future of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At one point the conversation became heated, with an interlocutor from the audience suggesting that those who opposed the wars should...

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Conflict in Abkhazia About to Get Unfrozen?

By Robert Farley

On May 1, 2008

This backs up something I heard at the recent International Studies Association meeting:A statement from the Russian foreign ministry said that "a bridgehead is being prepared for the start of.

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Let’s Discuss Enlargement… No, Not That Kind of Enlargement

By Robert Farley

On April 2, 2008

Like Matt, I don't have any principled opposition to Ukrainian membership in NATO. It will irritate the Russians, yes, but I don't have a terrible lot of sympathy for Russia.

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