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Situation Report: Expert analysis, briefings and commentary from across the political spectrum. Three Challenges Still Await NATO by Christopher Chivvis, 25 May -- "This week's NATO summit successfully navigated a tricky turn toward an end to the alliance's combat role in Afghanistan without veering into a stampede from the region altogether. The plan for handing over the lead in combat operations to Afghan forces is a little more clear, allies committed over $1 billion annually to support the ANSF, and NATO reaffirmed it will stay beyond 2014--even after combat operations are over. ..." The U.S.'s Somalia policy: Time for a Change. by James Jay Carafano, 22 May -- "Somalia is well known as a lawless, anarchic haven for terrorism and piracy. Since the events known as "Black Hawk Down" in 1993, the U.S. has been hesitant to become involved in Somalia. ..." Lousy joke of the week: Pentagon apparatchiks do the China Peril thing by George Smith, 18 May -- "While the rest of the country has gone to Hell over the last ten years, the Pentagon has been untouched. While unemployment and outsourcing of jobs to China surged, the US military budget ballooned. ..." White, right wing and paranoid is a terrible way to go through life by George Smith, 16 May -- "Not a week goes by that my news tab doesn't have a few stories on the American survivalist movement, courtesy of the presence of doomsday electromagnetic pulse references in all such pieces. The homespun country paranoids are now firmly in the US entertainment mainstream, notably in newspapers, almost purely because of the semi-success of one of the crummiest television reality series ever, National Geographic's Doomsday Preppers...." Questions After the First U.S. Bank Takeover by a Chinese State-Controlled Company by Charles Wolf, Jr., 15 May -- "By Charles Wolf, Jr., Brian Chow, Gregory Jones, and Scott Harold Last week (May 10), the Federal Reserve approved an application from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) to buy up to 80 percent of the U.S. subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based Bank of East Asia, which operates 13 branches in New York and California. ..."