NATO's Newest Members Offer to Buy More US Arms for Ukraine as Western Backing Declines NATO’s two newest members, Finland and Sweden, said that they would buy more weapons from the United States to give to...
NATO Seeks More Arms for Ukraine as Western Support Fades and Allied Airspace Concerns Mount NATO defense ministers will gather to try and drum up military support for Ukraine
NATO Begins a Big Nuclear Exercise Next Week. Protecting the Weapons Is a Key Part of the Drill NATO will hold its major annual nuclear exercise next week, the alliance’s chief announced, with an important part of the...
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...
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...