Tag: Europe

At around noon on Tuesday, alarms sounded at Strangnas Cathedral in Strangnas, Sweden. Law enforcement was immediately alerted, as the cathedral housed Sweden’s valuable and culturally significant crown jewels, but by the time they could arrive, the thieves, and a number of irreplaceable items, were already gone. An early assessment of the daring daytime heist, […]

A heat wave across much of Europe has been exacerbating wildfires in multiple nations in recent weeks, most notably, in Greece and Sweden. Efforts to put down these fires have quickly developed into an international endeavor, with equipment and firefighting personnel from a laundry list of nations heading into the fray. In Sweden, where more […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is advocating for European countries to take a firmer stance toward Iran and it’s aggressive posture. Prime Minister Netanyahu tweeted, “It was no coincidence that this attack was thwarted,” in reference to the arrest of six individuals who had attempted to carry out a bombing of an Iranian opposition party […]

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 […]

Amid heightening tensions between Russia and European nations, the government of Norway has approved plans to more than double the number of U.S. Marines permitted within their borders as a rotational training force. Marines have been conducting cold weather training in Norway since January of last year, and while many have attributed the American presence […]

Most Americans today have grown up in the strange bubble provided by U.S. military dominance around the world where our domestic concerns about war rarely extend beyond the political sphere. We don’t worry about things like winning or losing wars. We may lament things like the cost, the politics, or the toll it takes on […]

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

May 8, 1945 — The Germans have formally surrendered unconditionally to the Allied powers after one of the Europe’s most brutal wars. They have signed documents on their surrender in Prague, Berlin, East Germany and others areas of conflict. The continent has been devastated, and the survivors flood the streets all throughout Russia, the U.K., […]

According to U.S. Defense officials, a Russian fighter jet conducted an “unprofessional” intercept of an unarmed U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft over the Baltic Sea on Tuesday. The U.S. Navy P-8 surveillance plane was flying in international airspace over the increasingly contested Baltic Sea when it was approached at high speeds by a Russian Su-27. The […]

In telling the stories of war, we have a natural inclination to focus on the action, the drama of the front lines. Heroes, villains, and violence unlike most people have ever seen has a unique way of grabbing at the human attention span, luring us in with via own aspirations of heroism, or our own […]