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Massive NATO Wargame Seeks To Shore Up Fraying Alliance
More collective defense cooperation will be on display at the massive AUSA 2019 conference, attended by 92 different nations, including the chief generals of 13 armies.
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Esper To Lobby NATO For Tough Turkey Punishment
The SecDef will tell allies in Brussels next week they must take a hard line on Turkey as the body count in Syria continues to rise. The question is, does this emperil Turkey’s NATO membership?
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Mind the Gap: The Army Looks to a New Assault Bridge for Heavy Armor...
“If you took all the bridging in NATO and put it together we couldn’t get a Brigade Combat Team across a 400-meter river,” said the commanding general of the Army Corps of Engineers.
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UK, US Enter New Era: ‘Unprecedented’ Carrier-Sharing Plan
“We’re not talking about interoperability anymore, we’re talking about proper integration to a level we’ve never seen,” Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Jerry Kyd told me on the deck of the UK’s new carrier.
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Norway Flies With B-52s Above Arctic; IOC For Their F-35s
Norway took a major step toward replacing its F-16s when Norwegian air chief Brig. Gen. Tonje Skinnarland declared Norway’s F-35As operational after completing a deployment at Orland Main Air Station.
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Israel Tests New Air-Ground Tactics Vs. Islamic Jihad
The Israeli Air Force just wrapped up a “Blue Flag” wargame with the US & European allies and a real war with Islamic Jihad in Gaza.
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Pentagon, NATO Warn European Union About Defense Spending
As the EU releases plans for new ships, drones, and missile defense systems, Washington and NATO worry the organization’s new weapons may not work seamlessly with the alliance’s.
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Multi Domain Drives NATO Industry To Craft New Air Power Interoperability
The industry study is designed to help NATO “better prepare and operate within a multi-domain environment.”
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Raymond Urges NATO Space Ops; Europeans Fear Offensive Missions
The average person in the world doesn’t understand how their way of life is linked to space,” says Gen. Jay Raymond, head of SPACECOM. “I don’t think the average person understands the threat that...
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In First, NATO Ships Share Target Data & Knock Down Ballistic Missiles
As Washington continues to push NATO to invest more in modernization and become more closely integrated, a 13-ship task force showed that change is possible.
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Trump Mulls Turkey Sanctions As Senate Grows Impatient
A top State Dept. official today held up Chinese sanctions as a model for what might happen to Turkey for buying the Russian S-400 air defense system.
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Pull US Troops Out of Turkey: Former EUCOM Deputy
It has become increasingly apparent that Turkey has operated against U.S. interests in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. It hindered American military operations against ISIS in Syria, set...
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Along The Russian Border, Norway Holds The Northern Line
Oslo has come to the conclusion “we cannot rely on our allies to do everything” and is boosting its own efforts to protect its High North border with Russia.
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Congress Stalls INF-Busting Missiles & Nuke Treaty Withdrawal
John Beyrle, ambassador to Russia during the George W. Bush Administration, says letting New START expire would be “a pretty solid punch to the solar plexus of strategic stability.”
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Stop The Madness of NATO Expansion
A larger NATO embroils the United States in obscure regional disputes, commits it to defend exposed countries, and unnecessarily antagonizes the Russians.
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Defense Chief: With Giant Exercise Looming, Poland Looks To Lead Central Europe
With $12 billion in weapons purchases from US firms over the past year and a close relationship with President Trump, Poland needs to “get used to being a leader” in Europe, Chief of the Polish armed...
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From The Baltic To Black Seas, Defender Exercise Goes Big, With Hefty Price Tag
The US Army is shipping 20,000 troops and their tanks to Europe in a major test of its ability to move bulk (relatively) quickly. NATO allies are helping clear the way.
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CSIS Bad Idea: Pulling The Troops Home
Alliances, including forward-stationing of US forces abroad, make the United States safer, its allies more secure, and all more prosperous.
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As Navy Mulls Ship Cuts, New 2nd Fleet Opens For Business
The 2nd Fleet says it’s ready to hunt Russian subs and start pushing into the Arctic. But it can only do that if the Navy can spare the ships.
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CSIS Bad Idea: Debating Grand Strategy
It is fitting that the last in our series from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on “Bad Ideas in National Security” should center on the role of ‘grand strategy’ in US foreign...
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