Senator Richard Lugar has commissioned the Congressional Research Service (CRS) to examine the sale of military equipment and technology by NATO allies to Russia.

From Richard G. Lugar, the Washington Post:  The House of Representatives sent the Obama administration a strong, bipartisan rebuke on Friday for failing to make the case for war in Libya or seeking congressional authorization for military action.

From Richard Lugar, Office of Senator Lugar :  We are nearing the end of the second month of U.S. military involvement, including a bombing campaign, in Libya’s civil war.

From Josh Rogin, the Cable:  As the New START nuclear reductions treaty with Russia finally comes to a committee vote this Thursday, the focus is shifting from Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry (D-MA), who has been quarterbacking the Senate ratification process, to his Republican counterpart Richard Lugar (R-IN)

Shuja Nawaz, director of the Council's South Asia Center, published "Courting Pakistan" in the Wall Street Journal.  He analyzes the U.S.-Pakistan relationship following last week's "strategic dialogues."

The United States and Pakistan is the world's oddest couple, with an on-again, off-again friendship that has survived since the 1950s. Last week both sides completed a "strategic dialogue" in Washington amid fears that they were headed for another break-up.

That no good deed goes unpunished is both cliche and irony. No better illustration can be found than in the uproar that accompanied the House of Representative's passage last week of the Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill that "authorizes" an additional $1.5 billion a year for five years in non-military aid to Pakistan. "Authorize" is a key word.

Senator Richard Lugar argues that NATO's next strategic concept must consider "unconventional threats such as terrorism, drug trafficking, cyber warfare, and energy manipulation" as "attacks" meriting Alliance response under Article V.