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How to deal with the Kremlin-created crisis in Europe

We believe the United States should, in closest consultation with its NATO allies and with Ukraine,...

What does future warfare look like? It's here already

The year 2021 has seen a fundamental shift in British defence and security policy. Up goes the...

Kremlin hopes Syria can be a future thorn in NATO's southern flank

The longer runway at Khmeimim airbase in Syria gives nuclear-capable bombers a place to land, and...

Prioritize NATO’s core task: collective defense

The NATO Parliamentary Assembly meets next week in Washington to discuss the alliance’s redraft of...

How Biden can save the peace in Bosnia

Perhaps at no stage since the Bosnian War ended in 1995 has there been so much talk about war...

US nuclear arms shift could raise risk of inadvertent conflict

As Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan declared in 1985, “a nuclear war cannot be won and must...

NATO’s technology innovation initiatives are moving into high gear

Going far beyond what is available today, the Digital Ocean platform seeks to bring together...

Europe's military weakness is indefensible!

Am I the only one who is sick and tired of hearing AUKUS described as a 'wake up call' for European...

Is NATO in crisis?

The security pact between the US, UK and Australia did not cause a rift within NATO, but it is not...

NATO cannot cede the new art of modern warfare to Russia and China

The most recent global pandemic to hit the headlines and unleash widespread panic has nothing to do...

Strengthening our defences amid strategic challenges

Defence Minister Peter Dutton, showing commendable strategic foresight, has flagged broadening...

Even a short war over Taiwan or the Baltics would be devastating

Today, military commanders and the civilian politicians who might send them to war may be accepting...

Nato allies need to speed up AI defence co-operation

As Russia intensifies cyber hostilities and China weaponises artificial intelligence, joining...

What is Defense Diplomacy: the role of military forces in peacetime

Activities called "security cooperation" and "defense exchange / defense cooperation", i.e. foreign...

Germany’s Indo-Pacific frigate may send unclear message

When it recently emerged that Germany was planning to deploy the Bayern frigate to the South China...

The baleful phantom of border changes haunts the Balkans

Changing state borders in the western Balkans is usually considered one of the most dangerous ideas...

The new challenge for NATO: Securing a climate-changed world

Climate change is presenting a complex challenge for humanity as it contributes to sea-level rise,...

The Americans may leave Afghanistan, but the Forever War will grind on

Joe Biden may be withdrawing US troops from the ground, but given the continuing threat of...

The U.S. military takes UFOs seriously. Why doesn't Silicon Valley or academia?

The government wants to know if these unidentified objects pose a military threat. But they also...

NATO accession would not be a way for the West to help Ukraine

Ukrainian politicians have also started the discussion about joining NATO. Is there a chance for...

Biden is making a major mistake on Afghanistan

The Taliban have little incentive not to seek out their enemies wherever they might be found and...

Why India must not say ‘no’ to NATO

Any suggestion that India should engage the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is usually met with...

NATO’s focus on China is too narrow

China will have a prominent place in NATO’s emerging new Strategic Concept. But many of America’s...

UK should prioritise NATO, Euro-Atlantic cooperation and resilience in post-Brexit European security

With the new adjustments and shift in the UK’s foreign policy orientation, its prime focus forum...

The North Atlantic community renewed: Challenges, trends, and solutions

With 900 million people and $1 trillion in defense spending, the United States and Europe represent...

NATO faces conundrum as it mulls Afghan pullout

After 20 years of military engagement and billions of dollars spent, NATO and the United States...

NATO, ‘brain dead’ no more

A year after French President Emmanuel Macron declared NATO “brain dead,” the military alliance has...

Germany never took Trump's troop threat seriously

The partial withdrawal of US troops from Germany, announced with so much bluster by President...

Trump makes a bad situation worse in Afghanistan

Since the day he entered office, President Donald Trump hasn’t been able to make up his mind about...

Deutschland und die Nato müssen ein Signal senden

Im allerletzten Augenblick will der US-Präsident den Afghanistan-Abzug beschleunigen - mit...

U.S. Election Pits Vocal NATO Backer Biden Against Frequent Critic Trump

Despite the checks on U.S. presidential power and other factors that can provide for continuity...

NATO 20/2020: Twenty bold ideas to reimagine the Alliance after the 2020 US election

More than two decades after NATO’s inspired decision to invite former adversaries to join its...

Let Afghanistan be a lesson to US, NATO

After the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, DC, the US and its allies invaded Afghanistan....

Westlessness: how cracks within NATO signal a new balance of global power

It is easy to treat Trump as the cause of Western fragmentation. But it is much truer to consider...

China’s effect: A global NATO

A shift is taking place in global military thinking. NATO, arguably the most successful military...

Berlin darf diesen Abzug keinesfalls mit einem Achselzucken beantworten

Dass Washington Soldaten aus Deutschland und Europa abzieht, darf uns nicht gleichgültig sein. Es...