The Defense Department yesterday announced that Army Gen. William Kernan will be released of his duties as NATO's Atlantic commander when the new Unified Command Plan takes effect Oct. 1. President Bush requested the change in a letter to NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson, according to yesterday's Pentagon statement, which says Alliance members "agreed with great regret to release Gen. Kernan from his assignment as supreme allied commander, Atlantic," in October. At that time, Royal Navy Adm. Ian Forbes, deputy...