WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on Feb. 17, 2026, by non-resident senior fellow Gordon B. "Skip" Davis Jr. and editorial intern Nicole Monette: * * * NATO's Command Revolution - Europe Steps Forward The reassignment of major commands to European officers is a huge undertaking and demands new skills, says a former senior NATO official. * NATO is changing, and that may not be a bad thing. Despite public, high-level exchanges across the Atlantic that are occasionally impolite and  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on Feb. 17, 2026, by William Alan Reinsch, Scholl Chair emeritus with the Economics Program: * * * Trump Discovers Multilateralism Council on Foreign Relations President Michael Froman made an important point in his February 6 column regarding multilateralism. In short, it may be coming back. While administration officials have frequently said that "America First" does not mean "America Alone," until now, there has been very little evide more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- The Jamestown Foundation posted the following commentary on Feb. 17, 2026, by Pavel K. Baev, senior researcher at the International Peace Research Institute Oslo, in its Eurasia Daily Monitor: * * * Russia's Hope for Trans-Atlantic Rift at MSC Disappointed Executive Summary: * Russia hoped the February 13-15 Munich Security Conference (MSC) would expose rifts between the United States and Europe through disputes over approaches to nuclear arms, Arctic security, and Ukraine. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio instead  more PR

MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 18 -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: * * * Antarctic ice melt slowed global ocean circulation A look into Eath's history shows that the ice-sheet melt temporarily intensified Southern Ocean stratification * During the last deglaciations, the Antarctic ice-sheet melting temporary intensified the stratification of the Southern Ocean, thereby slowing global ocean circulation. * The results also indicate that wind dynamics maintained deep-sea ventilation despite freshwater inflow. * A new study shows  more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Feb. 17 -- THE ADT SECURITY CORPORATION, Boca Raton, Florida has been assigned a design patent (No. US D1113514 S1, initially filed June 23, 2023) developed by Kevin Greenland, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Camas, Washington, for "Motion sensor." more PT