by | Mar 18, 2025 | Security
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — The last U.S. Air Force transport aircraft journeyed home on March 7 after a busy summer in Christchurch. From this New Zealand city, the Air Force made frequent flights to Antarctica in support of the National Science Foundation program...
by | Mar 17, 2025 | Security
The U.S. Army’s 3rd Multidomain Task Force unit is standing up its long-range fires battalion over the next year, including readying its Typhon battery for deployment in the Pacific theater — marking the Army’s second such missile system to enter the region, according...
by | Mar 17, 2025 | Security
JERUSALEM — Rafael and Elbit Systems will supply a European NATO country with electronic countermeasures for protecting frigates from ship-killing missiles, the companies announced on Monday. The systems in question amount to an integrated solution from both...
by | Mar 17, 2025 | Security
HARSTAD, Norway — An agreement with Norway that provides U.S. forces with access to a dozen Norwegian military facilities and areas remains in place, a Norwegian official said, with Washington moving ahead with investments to expand an airbase where F-35s are stored....
by | Mar 17, 2025 | Security
SETERMOEN, Norway — The Norwegian Army has dropped tennis balls on tanks to test new attack strategies for drones, drawing on tactics seen on the battlefields of Ukraine. Officials staged the evaluation as part of NATO exercise Joint Viking 2025, held in Northern...
by | Mar 17, 2025 | Security
PARIS — Europe may have to wait for its own capability to suppress long-range enemy air defenses until at least 2033, with the expected arrival of a new high-speed maneuverable missile from MBDA, according to military experts at the Paris Defence and Strategy Forum...
by | Mar 14, 2025 | Security
BAGHDAD — The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, the Iraqi prime minister announced Friday. “The Iraqis continue their...
by | Mar 14, 2025 | Security
ROME — Donald Trump turned geopolitics on its head this month with his determination to do business with Vladimir Putin while pouring scorn on America’s allies. But there is one country in the world where tense competition between the United States and Russia...
by | Mar 14, 2025 | Security
WARSAW, Poland — The Polish government has reacted to the new foreign policy course in Washington by doubling down on its commitment to more defense cooperation with the United States. But while nods to Washington play an important role in Warsaw’s discourse, Poland’s...
by | Mar 14, 2025 | Security
PARIS — NATO will ask alliance members to raise their military capability targets by 30% as the organization seeks to boost its force posture, according to the commander in charge of defense planning at the 32-nation alliance. The proposed capability targets have been...
