Pentagon Acquisition Chief Says Support to Ukraine at Risk if Government Shuts Down
This post has been updated to correct the planned delivery of 155mm rounds to Ukraine. The Pentagon’s chief weapon buyer…
U.K. Defense Chief Bullish on Ukraine’s Spring Offensive
Ukraine has regained about half of the land Russia seized since the invasion began in February 2022, the United Kingdom…
Estonian Defense Minister: Baltic Can Become ‘Internal NATO Sea’ With Sweden, Finland in Alliance
When Turkey dropped its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining the transatlantic alliance this week, it opened up the path…
Lithuanian PM: Putin Underestimated Ukraine’s Willingness To Fight Off Russian Invasion
A frontline prime minister in the Ukraine crisis said today that Russian President Vladimir Putin underestimated Ukraine’s willingness to fight…
Panel: Russia Conflicted by America’s Afghanistan Withdrawal
Russia’s Afghanistan failures in the 1980s are driving the Kremlin’s thinking of how to deal with the Taliban and the…
Experts: Syrian War Prompting Russians to Expand Unmanned Systems
Russia’s experience in Syrian with unmanned systems has proved invaluable to the Kremlin in learning their value as force multipliers.…
Air Force F-15E Downs Armed Syrian UAV; Australia Suspends Syrian Anti-ISIS Air Strikes After Russian Threats
A U.S. fighter shot down an armed Syrian regime unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) near the Jordan border on Tuesday.…
Kremlin Pledges to Target U.S. Anti-ISIS Coalition Aircraft After ‘Cynical’ Super Hornet Shoot-Down of Syrian Fighter
Russia claims it will no longer be party to the airspace deconfliction agreement with the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition and will treat…
Scaparotti: Russia Pushing U.S. European Command Back to a Warfighting Focus
Since Russia seized Crimea and began using proxies to destabilize the Ukrainian government in 2014 and menace its neighbors with…
Authors: Two Brands of Russian Nationalism Drive Kremlin Policy
Two forms of nationalism — one seeing Moscow as the centerpiece of a Eurasian civilization, different from the West and…