The Kremlin appears to be escalating its rhetoric surrounding the simmering conflict with Ukraine. As the first excerpt from the official Kremlin.ru site points out, in July, President Putin, in…
In October, France and Greece announced a “Strategic Partnership on Defence and Security,” following several defense deals including Greece’s purchase of three French warships and 24 Rafale combat planes. The…
In mid-July, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Syria in what was the highest-level Chinese government visit since the start of the Syrian conflict, timed to coincide with the swearing-in…
In a valedictory article in the Russian Ministry of Defense’s Military Thought journal, the head of the Russian General Staff’s Military Academy, General-Colonel V.B. Zarudnitsky, gave guidance to his researchers…
The accompanying excerpted articles from Armystandart.ru, a Russian website featuring military news, describe the Russian Ground Forces’ new command-and-control vehicles for the battalion and brigade/division. The R-149MA1 command-staff vehicle is…
According to the following articles from the Norway-based English- and Russian-language Independent Barents Observer, the Russian Navy is conducting numerous exercises and naval training operations in or near Arctic waters.…
Thanks in part to a BBC news crew onboard the HMS Defender at the time, the world was aware of Russian shadowing and intimidation tactics towards the British warship operating…
A key Kremlin platform over the past decade has revolved around the assertion that the NATO alliance presents a grave and present danger to Russian security. According to the Kremlin…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted Polish President Andrzej Duda in May 2021. According to the first accompanying article from al-Monitor, a Washington, DC-based independent regional news network with analysts…
Before Russia engaged the British HMS Defender in the Black Sea on 23 June, another similar but less examined incident occurred. According to Marineschepen.nl, a privately run Dutch news source…