Nato leaders will be gathering for their summit meeting in Lisbon later this week and no doubt Afghanistan will be at the top of the agenda.

The NATO summit which will convene in Lisbon on November 19-20 will adopt the alliance's new strategic concept switching NATO from regional defense to global-scale missions. In practice, the reform will institutionalize the West's victory in the Cold World War III.

-The gunman...fires the round above or to the side of the target, and the air-bursting round explodes next to the enemy with about the same kill radius as a hand grenade....The Army plans on purchasing more than 12,500 XM25 systems at about $25,000 to 35,000 apiece starting in 2012,

TSKHINVALI: South Ossetia will shoot down any Georgian drones that breach its airspace, South Ossetian Defense Minister Valery Yakhnovets said on Monday, as he commented on a Georgian reconnaissance drone that entered South Ossetian skies on Sunday.

In the eve of the NATO Lisbon summit there is a need to recall that eleven years ago Serbia (FRY) was a testing ground and first victim of so called new concept of NATO strategy which is to be formally endorsed in Lisbon November 19/20.