Tag: NATO
Finland Goes Underground as Russia Rearms
On November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland. Its bombers hit Helsinki that same day. What then became known as the Winter War lasted barely three months. Finland did not surrender, but paid heavily for survival: it ceded roughly a tenth of its territory and spent the Cold War…
Ukraine and EU launch bloc-wide drone partnership
Ukraine and the European Union signed a defense-industrial partnership dubbed the Drone Deal during Ukrainian Statehood Day celebrations in Kyiv, backed by concrete funding and industrial commitments rather than rhetoric alone, according to the European Commission and Ukrinform.The Commission disbursed 1 billion euros to support Ukraine's drone capabilities under the…
Shelter shortfall exposes a gap in Germany’s war readiness
Germany's plan to close a severe civil-defense shortfall runs into an unresolved problem at its core: the federal government has not yet defined what level of attack its shelters should withstand, according to the Financial Times.Germany once had roughly 2,000 public shelters holding 1.6 million people. Today, it has 579,…
Ukraine Is Forcing Europe to Rethink Air Defence
More for Ukraine, more for themselvesWestern leaders gathering in Paris on Monday are trying to secure more air-defence systems for Ukraine. The shortage they face, however, is not simply one of missiles or launchers. It reflects a defence-industrial model built for decades of peacetime efficiency rather than sustained high-intensity war.…
Ankara Summit Shows NATO Rediscovering Its Purpose
NATO was built in 1949 to contain a Soviet threat its founders believed diplomacy alone could not hold. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Alliance spent three decades answering a nagging question: what was it still for? The Ankara summit declaration gave an unusually direct answer.NATO names Russia and rediscovers…
Germany Funds 50,000 Ukrainian FPV Strike Drones
Germany is financing the procurement of 50,000 Ukrainian-made Shrike strike drones under a €90 million order, according to Reuters, joining a broader Western shift toward funding weapons produced directly by Ukraine’s defence industry.The contract combines airframes mass-produced by Ukrainian manufacturer SkyFall with guidance software from U.S. defence-technology company Auterion.Germany is…
Russia’s Long-Range Strike Campaign Is Becoming a War of Industrial Attrition
More than four years into Russia's full-scale invasion, the struggle for control of Ukraine's skies has become one of the defining contests of the war. Moscow is no longer seeking decisive effects from individual missile barrages. Instead, it is using sustained waves of drones and missiles to wear down Ukraine's…
Estonia Approves Permanent Military Base on Russian Border
Estonia will begin large-scale construction of a new military base in the border city of Narva at the end of 2026, with around 200 Estonian Defence Forces personnel to be permanently stationed there once the facility is completed, according to Ando Voogma, project portfolio head at the Estonian Centre for…
NATO Jets Cleared to Shoot Down Baltic Threats
NATO has agreed to upgrade its two-decade-old Baltic Air Policing mission into a full air-defense mission, and the operational catalyst is more specific than "a less peaceful environment." Russian electronic warfare units based in Kaliningrad have repeatedly jammed and spoofed GPS signals across the Baltic, causing Ukrainian strike drones to…
