Atlantic Community - NATO Opinion Piece

Atlantic Community is an organization working to build a stronger Trans-Atlantic community, especially among the young as future leaders.  The website has an Open Think Tank that publishes opinions for review and further commentary and periodically promotes essay competitions and publishes the results.  I submitted an opinion piece for the Your Ideas, Your NATO competition (still accepting submissions for some categories) which was selected for publishing and can be found at the link below.

Gerald Gugerty:  Smart Defense through Smarter Community 

In the piece I argue briefly how NATO should work with other international organizations to discover and help mitigate the future sources of security threats rather than just 'treating the symptoms' through missile defense.  The organization should consider why defense may be needed in the future - that is, in response to food security or environmental threats and other factors.  Feel free to join the discussion and post your comments at the link above.

So what do you *do* here?

This is a question I get a lot:

"So what exactly do you do here?"

Said, of course, with the requisite emphasis on the second 'do' so as to indicate a presumption that the answer may be "Nothing", a la The Bobs.  So, six months into the program, I'll finally describe what it is I do here, first with a bit of explanation about the Fulbright Program itself.

Popcorn - Guest Blogger on 365

365PeaceAndFriendship.com is a blog put on by Peace Corps Moldova to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Peace Corps' existence.  Every day during the year they post an article from a guest blogger in Moldova, and I was invited to write a post for December 30, 2011.  Click the link to see my post.

365 Days of Peace and Friendship:  December 30, 2011 - Popcorn