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The United States announced on Monday that President Trump has ordered the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats, joining a bevy of other European nations taking similar actions following the use of a Soviet-era nerve agent on a former Russian spy on British soil. Although UK officials have permitted international access to the substance recovered from […]

The Russians sent out a lone Su-27 Flanker to intercept a formation of Air Force aircraft which included a pair of B-1B Lancers, a B-52 Stratofortress and a KC-135R Stratotanker that was part of the BALTOPS 2017 exercise over the Baltic Sea. The intercept made for some great pictures! BALTOPS is an annual recurring multinational, maritime-focused exercise designed […]

In a joint press conference conducted with Denmark’s Defense Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen, American Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced that the coalition will begin accelerating its campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. “We will further accelerate this fight to free people from ISIS’ crushing occupation and [the] enemy’s terror threat to Europe and […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin is beefing up his military forces in the Arctic on a scale that hasn’t been seen since the days of the USSR and the Cold War. He’s reopening closed bases and opening new ones in a bid to control the cold but natural resource-rich region One such base holds the 80th […]

The wreckage of a World War II era German fighter plane has been discovered in a small Danish farm by a fourteen-year-old boy and his father while they were doing research for his history class. Daniel Kristiansen grew up hearing stories from his grandfather about a Nazi warplane crashing on their land as a child, […]

The cold war brought about some incredible technological advancements on both American and Soviet fronts.  Things that make our way of life today possible were once inventions intended to keep us one step ahead of the reds.  Indeed, we have our decades long staring match with communism to thank for things like Dynamic Random Access […]

It requires the same discipline and steadfast determination to succeed whether you’re looking to become a Jaeger or a Frogman.

What is the Strong Europe Tank Challenge? U.S. Army Europe and the German Bundeswehr co-hosted the Strong Europe Tank Challenge at Grafenwoehr Training Area, May 10-12, 2016, with an awards ceremony held on May 13. Six NATO nations took part in the Strong Europe Tank Challenge — each sending tank platoons to vie for first […]

Army CPT Bradley Grimm received the Danish Defense Medal for Special Meritorious Effort for his role in stopping an attack on a school in Denmark.

Cold Response 2016 is held in the Trøndelag counties in Central Norway. The main exercise phase included approximately 15,000 soldiers from 14 nations participate. This year, the following nations participate in Cold Response: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the USA, the United Kingdom and Norway. In addition, there are […]

Danish prosecutors say a 16-year-old girl who was arrested in January was planning bomb attacks against a Jewish school in Copenhagen and another school in Denmark. Prosecutors presented the preliminary charges against her and a 24-year-old man suspected of being her accomplice in a court hearing Tuesday in Holbaek, northwest of the Danish capital. Prosecutor […]

As we go to press, Iraqi Special Operations Forces are entering the city center of Ramadi to liberate it from ISIS.  Despite the daily frantic reports in the media, ISIS is perhaps the most over exaggerated threat of our time.  In this case, they have around three hundred fighters inside Ramadi, many of them reputed […]