What NATO Can Learn from Finland’s Defense Strategy When Finland joined NATO in 2023, the small Nordic nation brought with it one of Europe’s most comprehensive defense systems...
Russian Jets Breach Estonian Airspace as Trump Administration Plans Baltic Security Cuts Three Russian MiG-31 fighters entered Estonian airspace Friday morning and stayed for 12 minutes before Finnish, Italian, and...
Airspace Violations Force NATO to Tread a Tightrope, Deterring Russia Without Hiking Tensions NATO is stepping up aerial surveillance in the Baltic Sea, while France, Germany and Sweden are bolstering Denmark’s air...
Germany Hopes to Attract Tens of Thousands More Military Recruits as NATO Strengthens Its Defenses Germany has committed billions to beefing up its military's equipment after years of neglect. Now it's trying to persuade...
What Turkey’s Shootdown of a Russian Jet Taught NATO — and Why It Matters Now In November 2015, a Russian Su-24 bomber strayed into Turkish airspace along the Syrian border. Within minutes, a Turkish F...
The New Iron Curtain: Why Poland’s Border with Belarus Matters to the U.S. Decades after the Cold War ended and the Iron Curtain fell, a new divide is emerging along Poland’s eastern border with...
Latvia and Finland welcome NATO's Eastern Sentry airspace mission The presidents of Latvia and Finland have welcomed NATO's new mission to secure airspace on its eastern flank, launched in...
Denmark Leads an Exercise in Greenland, with Russia in Mind at a Time of Tensions with the US Denmark is leading a military exercise with hundreds of troops from several European NATO members in Greenland, a maneuver...
Russia Shows Off Conventional and Nuclear Military Might in Drills — and Raises Tensions with NATO Moscow showcases its conventional and nuclear military might in long-planned exercises with Belarus, as it warns the West...
NATO Flexes its Muscles and Bulks up Defenses on its Eastern Flank to Ward off Russia NATO said Friday it's bulking up its defensive posture on its eastern flank bordering Belarus, Russia and Ukraine with new...
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Administration from Sending National Guard Troops to Oregon A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon at all, after...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Veterans, Who Saw One of Their Own Arrested by ICE and Charged, Say Feds Are Undermining Democracy Days after a 70-year-old Air Force veteran was among five people charged while protesting outside a suburban U.S. Immigration...
As Hegseth Orders Changes to the Pentagon Watchdog, Advocates Say It Will Silence Complaints Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused the independent watchdog for the Pentagon of being “weaponized” and says he’s...
