Europe

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 […]

Ever since Russia’s military annexation of Crimea in 2014, tensions between Vladimir Putin’s regime and NATO forces on Europe’s eastern flank have been on the rise. While the combined military might of the NATO alliance should be able to route a Russian offensive against Europe, concerns remain even the recently bolstered NATO force couldn’t prevent […]

What is a hero? By the literal meaning of the word,  a hero is the protector or defender; by the ancient Greek definition it is the one who lives and dies in the pursuit of honor. Today we apply the word way too often and undeservedly, diluting its meaning. But we do indeed have different […]

On Monday, the United States announced that it would be joining the growing list of vexed nations expelling Russian diplomats and officials from their borders, following the use of a Soviet-era nerve agent on a former Russian spy on British soil. With 60 Russians being ordered out of the United States and at least 40 […]

However you may feel about him, during his long tenure, Vladimir Putin has definitely been a strongman. For some, this is a sign of a true leader, for others, of undemocratic autocracy. Rigged elections, mysterious opponent disappearances, have brought the man on the verge of a movie mastermind villain status. If you’re one of those […]

According to multiple reports out of the region, the United States Embassy in Montenegro was attacked by a lone bomber late Wednesday night, who died in the effort. No other injuries have been reported. At approximately midnight local time, an unidentified man was seen throwing an explosive device over the wall of the U.S. embassy, […]