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...
NATO's First Drone Battle Pits Million-Dollar Jets Against Cheap Drones, Exposing Vulnerabilities For more than three years, Ukraine has waged an almost nightly battle against Russian attack drones. NATO on Wednesday got a...
Trump Offers Ambiguous Initial Response to Russian Drone Incursion into Poland's Airspace Trump's comment stood in sharp contrast to the strong condemnation by several European leaders and was notably less robust...
Swastikas Still Linger on Some Flags in Finland's Air Force, But Are on the Way Out The air force of NATO member Finland is still flying swastikas on some flags, but is moving to remove them mostly because of...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
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...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
