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The Russians have reneged on a historic arms control treaty signed between the United States and Russia, an Air Force General said yesterday. The treaty, the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, was a critical aspect in ending the Cold War. It explicitly bans the testing, production, and possession of intermediate-range missiles fired from land-based […]
Sweden has long enjoyed its status as a “neutral” nation, but choosing not to align themselves with any of the geopolitical powerhouses prodding one another across national borders doesn’t guarantee their safety if tensions turn to aggression. With Russia rapidly expanding their military capability and ramping up their aggressive behavior in the region around the […]
General Joseph F. Dunford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, addressed a crowd at the Brookings Institute last week, in which he discussed the challenges faced by the American military and how best to face them in the coming years. The Brookings Institute, a Washington DC based think tank, gave Dunford the opportunity to […]
The situation here in Ukraine is one that is all too familiar with the promise of a new ceasefire that bears no weight. I think the problem is that when we think of the word ceasefire in the west, we think “no shooting, period.” Well, here in Ukraine it’s a word that is used very […]
German soldiers forward deployed to Lithuania have become the targets of a hostile Russian information operations campaign, according to NATO officials. On Thursday, it was reported that rape allegations made against German soldiers via email made it all the way to the president of the Lithuanian parliament and to various news agencies in the country. […]
President Donald Trump posed a question via Twitter on Wednesday morning: “Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?” According to NATO expert Jorge Benitez of the Atlantic Council, he was — but there’s more to the story. “Yes, Obama was too soft on Russia,” Benitez told Business […]
While meeting with NATO leaders in Brussels, American Secretary of Defense James Mattis once again called on member nations to fulfill their financial obligations to the alliance, warning that a failure to do so could result in America shifting its level of commitment to the organization. “I owe it to you all to give you […]
While the White House is dealing with the media aftermath of President Trump’s National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, being forced to step down amid allegations of inappropriate contact with Russian officials, James Mattis is heading to Brussels to meet with NATO leaders and reassure them of the United States’ commitment to the organization, and to […]
Multiple Russian aircraft buzzed a U.S. destroyer patrolling in the Black Sea last week, in an incident the captain of the American ship called “unsafe,” the Pentagon said Tuesday. The three flybys occurred on Feb. 10 and were first reported by the Washington Free Beacon. Lt. Col. David Faggard, a U.S. European Command spokesman, said the USS Porter, […]
With the rhetorical indications coming first out of the Donald J. Trump presidential campaign, and now out of the Trump White House, one could be forgiven for thinking that the U.S. military might be pulling back its forces from the Russian “sphere of influence” in order to facilitate an improvement of ties between the two […]
General John W. Nicholson Jr, commander of the American-led international military force in Afghanistan, told Congress on Thursday that he believes the ongoing fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan to be at a “stale mate.” In order to effectively train and advise the Afghan military, Nicholson believes a surge of thousands more international fighters is […]
President Trump recently remarked that he would look into the Ukraine crisis. More specifically he said he would look into the separatist movement in Ukraine. But, POTUS Trump has stated he will not lift Russian sanctions. The future state of Trumpian foreign policy toward Ukraine is a complete unknown. But it’s shaping up to be something […]
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