Category: Europe

Brussels, Belgium — The battle for the next European Union (EU) multi-annual budget is underway. How the Europeans decide to spend their money will tell quite a lot about their priorities.  Currently, education, defence, security, and digital technology appear to be favoured, and agriculture (France’s sweetheart) shunned.  But the tedious bureaucratic process of deciding and […]

French President Emmanuel Macron called on all European nations to invest more heavily in defense and develop financial security within the continent. Macron’s stated goal would be to reduce the continent’s reliance on the United States for both physical and financial security, but the underlying premise was clear: Macron does not believe the United States […]

While the threat of Russian world domination seems like a very far off fairy tale to most of us here in the United States, it is a growing concern for many European nations. The Crimean peninsula occupation and continuous buildup of Russian military forces on their borders is making Europe nervous. Many European based NATO […]

Since Russia’s military annexation of Crimea in 2014, NATO officials have been working tirelessly to find ways to effectively counter Russian aggression throughout Europe’s Eastern flank. Troops from throughout the alliance have established new commands all over the continent, and plans continue to develop to mount an even more robust defensive posture in the region. […]

  4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division’s equipment began arriving at the port of Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 20, 2018, marking the third heel-to-toe aviation Atlantic Resolve rotation. The Fort Carson, Colo. based aviation brigade deployed to Europe with approximately: 1,700 Soldiers 52 UH-60 and HH-60 Black Hawks 12 CH-47 Chinooks 24 AH-64 Apaches 1,500 […]

In every meeting of NATO officials, there comes the inevitable conversations about burden sharing and the exchange of fiscal platitudes furnished by member states that continue to fall short of their financial obligations to the alliance. The U.S. representative, often Defense Secretary James Mattis but occasionally even the American president himself, will remind the organization […]

Andrew Toyer and Mick Hill make the scariest walk to a BASE exit ever. What: 160 meter Antenna in Europe 😜 When: August 2017 Why: Because we can! 😜 “Scariest walk and pre jump ever, the jump itself pales in comparison to the walk.” – Andrew Toyer YouTube Featured image by video screen capture

The Russian meddling in the United States, as well as other elections, is now going to be the norm, in addition to cyber warfare, disinformation campaigns and more traditional espionage the European heads of intelligence warned on Monday. The Sergei Skripal assassination attempt in the UK is a prime example. After the attack, it was […]

The West African Sahel region will get double the funding for its multi-national military operation from the European Union to counter the growing threat of Islamist insurgencies which is part of a broader effort to stop the flow of migrants and jihadists according to a top European diplomat. The rise of jihadist insurgencies allied to […]

The idea of a common European identity existed in academia long before WWII, but the devastation that WWII brought to the continent made people think long and hard how we could stop slaughtering each other on such scales. The two main actors in the notion were France and Germany. The first time they fought each other […]

Weeks after a French nuclear watchdog reported unusually high levels of specific nuclear isotopes in the atmosphere over Europe, the Russian meteorological service released a statement that seems to support their findings. Earlier this month, the French Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute (IRSN) released reports of unusually high levels of ruthenium-106 in the air over […]

According to a report released by the French Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute (IRSN) on Thursday, a cloud of radioactive pollution over Europe detected in recent weeks indicates that there has likely been an accident in a nuclear facility somewhere in Russia or Kazakhstan.  According to their estimation, the incident must have occurred at some […]