by | Mar 26, 2025 | Security
PARIS — Denmark indicated plans to join a European pool of air-to-air refueling tankers, including the potential purchase of two Airbus A330 MRTT refueling aircraft, with Danish participation in the joint capacity estimated to cost about 7.4 billion Danish kroner...
by | Mar 25, 2025 | Security
LONDON — As wake-up calls go, the alarms don’t get much louder. Allies of the United States see the group chat between top U.S. officials about a planned attack in Yemen that accidentally included a journalist as a jaw-dropping security breach which casts doubt on...
by | Mar 25, 2025 | Security
MILAN – Saildrone, a U.S. manufacturer of unmanned surface vessels, has integrated new protective equipment onto its drone boats operating in the Middle East to safeguard them against widespread jamming of communication systems in the region. The company said it had...
by | Mar 25, 2025 | Security
SETERMOEN, Norway — Norwegian Maj. Gen. Lars S. Lervik has been chief of the Norwegian Army since 2020, based in Bardufoss, in Northern Norway. As of early 2025, the force is made up of approximately 9,000 personnel which includes soldiers, civilians and conscripts,...
by | Mar 22, 2025 | Security
The U.S. Army will not conduct a live-fire operation of its Mid-Range Capability missile system, known as Typhon, during exercises in the Philippines this spring, according to the service commander in charge of U.S. Army Pacific operations. “We are not planning to...
by | Mar 21, 2025 | Security
MANILA, Philippines — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to visit the Philippines, the first stop on his first trip to the Indo-Pacific next week, for talks that will include increasing deterrence against aggression in the disputed South China Sea, a...
by | Mar 21, 2025 | Security
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — European Union leaders have wrapped up a busy week for defense, endorsing a landmark plan Thursday to unlock a combined €800 billion ($866 billion) in European military spending, though some political fissures became visible. The bloc hopes...
by | Mar 21, 2025 | Security
HARSTAD, Norway — Some hundreds of kilometers from a Russian naval base in Murmansk Oblast, a formation of military boats dash across the frigid Norwegian Sea. A team of officers bearing the Norwegian flag on their uniform climb from one moving vessel onto another, a...
by | Mar 21, 2025 | Security
Over his years in Washington, a European defense official — granted anonymity to speak freely — grew used to a certain warmth from his American counterparts. He gave the Air Force’s annual conference as an example. Every year he went, the speakers thanked U.S. allies...
by | Mar 20, 2025 | Security
VICTORIA, British Columbia — Faced with threats of economic punishment and annexation from the Trump administration, Canada has launched a series of initiatives to shift its traditional defense links with the U.S. over to Europe and other regions. Foreign Affairs...
