Just hours ahead of the NATO summit in Brussels on June 14, the military bloc’s secretary general, Norway’s Jens Stoltenberg, told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble that NATO will continue to expand its military capabilities but will not “mirror” its arch-adversary Russia. And...
In comments that got past editors in the Western news media, President Vladimir Putin in a recent Russian television interview accused the West of abusing what were good relations at the time (1999-2004) to expand NATO up to Russia’s borders. And in doing so, he...
Voice of America Sunday ran a story about the tenor and theme of President Joe Biden's presentation at tomorrow's NATO summit in Brussels with the headline Biden to Reassure Allies of US Commitment to NATO Mutual Defense Clause. In the report it cites a pledge Biden...
Exercise Tallinn Dawn, being conducted at the British Army’s Sennelager Training Centre in northern Germany, is being used to train 750-800 troops with the U.K. Royal Tank Regiment to assume control of the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup in Estonia,...
The U.S. Defense Department announced an additional $150 million security/military tranche for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) that includes, according to a press release, “training, equipment, and advisory efforts to help Ukraine’s forces preserve...
At the opening of the NATO Maritime Security Center of Excellence in Istanbul, one of several NATO centers and commands in Turkey, the nation’s defense minister, Hulusi Akar, delivered an address that both touted Turkey’s role as a NATO powerhouse and expressed...
The Russian embassy in the U.S. criticized the deployment of B-52H Stratofortress nuclear-capable strategic bombers in the course of large-scale U.S.-NATO war games in the Baltic Sea, the fiftieth version of Baltic Operations (BALTOPS). The Russian embassy...
The Russian newspaper Izvestia, while mentioning Acting Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Reeker’s ongoing trip to the three nations of the South Caucasus – Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia – quoted comments made to it by Vladimir...
Interfax-Ukraine recently cited Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying that Ukraine possesses all the capabilities required to achieve NATO candidate status, whether or not it is offered it at next week’s summit. On June 8 he told the Senate Foreign Relations...
U.S. Air Force revealed on June 10 that a B-52H Stratofortress, Cold War nuclear mainstay and the bomber used for almost a thousand missions over North and South Vietnam in the 1960s and early 1970s, flew over parts of Africa as part of the Bomber Task Force Europe...
