NATO
US Upgrades Ukrainian Ports To Fit American Warships
USS Carney, DDG 64, prepares to go underway in Odesa, Ukraine. Our own Poetrooper sent us an interesting link: seems the US is modifying Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea to better fit US and NATO ships. That these ports are near Russian controlled Crimea is sure to rankle the Russians, who deem the Black […]
Dzien dobry, nie mówie po polsku
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Soldiers conduct an after action review at the detonation site of a bangalore torpedo explosives during a day of breach training on a range near Camp Trzebie?, Poland, May 23, 2019. (Sgt. Jeremiah Woods/Army) Yes, the skinny is true. We are sending more troops to Poland, in addition to Reaper drones. Fort Trump is not […]
Estonia Is Getting New Guns
Estonia is getting new guns. The Cold War really is over, dead and buried. No, that is not one of the guns they’re getting from LMT, but it’s a shoot-shoot-bang-bang thing, isn’t it? Per the article: As the Estonian Defence Forces continue a lengthy move away from their Warsaw Pact roots to full parity with NATO […]
The Cold War is dead… and it had better stay dead
None of this ever appears in my local newspaper, probably because it’s either posted online or brought up for a one-minute look-see in the rather vapid evening news reports. If the real news is not being published in print, are we required to go searching for it? Apparently, the answer to that is ‘yes’, because […]
NATO Catfishing
World Economic Forum released an article today stating how a NATO experiment used fake Facebook accounts, called “sockpuppets” to trick soldiers into sharing sensitive information. “… the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence details an experiment it ran to trick serving members of the armed forces. While the authors won’t say which country’s armed forces, […]
‘Trump Is Having An Impact’
Last year, President Trump suggested a move tantamount to destroying NATO: the withdrawal of the United States. Senior administration officials told The New York Times that several times over the course of 2018, Mr. Trump privately said he wanted to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Current and former officials who support the alliance […]
Turkey and the Kurds and US
I’m still not understanding what the angst is between the Turks and the Kurds, who are successfully doing their job in northeastern Syria, with backing from the U.S. government. Since both Turkey and the USA are allies in NATO, this issue needs to be resolved, and soon, too, since the Taliban have returned like a […]
24th Marine Expeditionary Heading to Norway for NATO
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2018/09/06/24th-marine-expeditionary-unit-will-head-to-norway-to-join-40000-troops-strong-nato-exercise/ Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, are slated to participate in one of the largest NATO exercises later this fall hosted by Norway, according to Marine officials. The exercise, dubbed Trident Juncture, is one of the largest for NATO in more than a decade and will feature nearly 40,000 troops, over one hundred aircraft […]
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