EUCOM Calls For Two More Ships For Spanish Port

EUCOM Calls For Two More Ships For Spanish Port
EUCOM Calls For Two More Ships For Spanish Port

Gen. Tod Wolters reveals he’s built new infrastructure in Spain, waiting for the Navy to add two more destroyers to the four already there.

NATO To ‘Integrate’ Offensive Cyber By Members

NATO To ‘Integrate’ Offensive Cyber By Members
NATO To ‘Integrate’ Offensive Cyber By Members

“NATO is clear that we will not perform offensive cyberspace operations,” said Maj. Gen. Wolfgang Renner. “However, we will integrate sovereign cyberspace effects from the allies who are willing to volunteer.”

Allies And 21st Century Weapons: The F-35 Comes To Europe

Allies And 21st Century Weapons: The F-35 Comes To Europe
Allies And 21st Century Weapons: The F-35 Comes To Europe

A key dynamic in the shift from COIN-centric land wars to a twenty-first century combat force is what the US and its closest allies will learn from each other thanks to the core weapons systems they are buying at the same time. Hidden in plain view is the emergence of a significant driver of change  –- flying the same…

Reach Out To Russia: Former EUCOM Breedlove

Reach Out To Russia: Former EUCOM Breedlove
Reach Out To Russia: Former EUCOM Breedlove

WASHINGTON: Retired Gen. Philip Breedlove, just weeks after retiring as NATO’s Supreme Commander, Europe, urged the alliance to reopen “a line of communication” with the Kremlin. While Breedlove’s tenure as SACEUR was wracked by the annexation of Crimea, the invasion of eastern Ukraine, and NATO’s race to strengthen its defenses, his focus was not on…

Wargame Warns NATO Unready For Baltic Crisis

Wargame Warns NATO Unready For Baltic Crisis
Wargame Warns NATO Unready For Baltic Crisis

WASHINGTON: NATO would be dangerously slow to respond to a crisis scenario in the Baltics, warns a new report on a closed-doors wargame. That raises the unsettling possibility that in a Crimean-style land grab, Russia could simply seize what it wants before the US and its allies react. Compared to Vladimir Putin’s nimble mix of…

Gen. Scaparrotti Moving From Korea To Europe: ‘Low-Key’ 4-Star

Gen. Scaparrotti Moving From Korea To Europe: ‘Low-Key’ 4-Star
Gen. Scaparrotti Moving From Korea To Europe: ‘Low-Key’ 4-Star

UPDATED with Sec. Carter statement & Gen. Barno comment WASHINGTON: The four-star chief of US and allied forces in Korea will become the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe — the critical SACEUR position first held by Eisenhower. For Gen. Curtis M. “Mike” Scaparrotti, it’s out of the East Asian frying pan into the European fire. “The…

Russians In Syria Building A2/AD ‘Bubble’ Over Region: Breedlove

Russians In Syria Building A2/AD ‘Bubble’ Over Region: Breedlove
Russians In Syria Building A2/AD ‘Bubble’ Over Region: Breedlove

WASHINGTON: In keeping with its increasingly aggressive behavior over the past two years, Russia is deploying lethal and long-ranged anti-aircraft defenses to keep Western forces out of three key regions: the Baltics, the Black Sea, and, now, the Levant. From where NATO’s top commander Gen. Philip Breedlove sits, the Russian forces flowing into Syria don’t look…