On the first of the year the North Atlantic Treaty Organization transferred command of the NATO Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) to Turkey. On March 30 NATO turned over its current mission in Afghanistan to Turkish Brigadier General Selçuk Yurtsizoglu. In a...
Upcoming NATO Summit and the Great Game for the Asia-Pacific
An article appeared on the website of the Atlantic Council on March 26 entitled Opportunity knocks for NATO and its partners in the Asia-Pacific, which elaborates plans for continuing and qualitatively upgrading the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s steady...
Norfolk: Thirty-Nation Global Nuclear Alliance To Wage War Against ‘Cognitive, Virtual and Physical Effects’
Norfolk: Thirty-nation global nuclear alliance to wage war against “cognitive, virtual and physical effects” “Diplomacy is only for minor states.” George Meredith, The Adventures of Harry Richmond. This is apropos a recent feature on the...
NATO Headquarters: Blinken Announces Last Global Crusade
In 1096 Pope Urban sanctioned, and sanctified, the First Crusade with the words Deo vult: God wills it. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s address at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters in Brussels on March 24, entitled Reaffirming and Reimagining...
US Strategic Bombers Engage in Arctic, Baltic, Atlantic Exercises
Yesterday U.S. B-2 Spirit bombers concluded their role in what US European Command calls an historic Bomber Task Force deployment to Europe amid unprecedented and daily mounting tensions with the US’s fellow nuclear superpower Russia. The current iteration of...
Baltic Sea: NATO’s Northeastern Expansion Meets Russia’s Northwestern Border
That German warplanes are within immediate range of Russia’s Kaliningrad oblast (and not much further from St. Petersburg, formerly Leningrad) and that Germany is in charge of a permanent battlegroup formation in Lithuania are topical issues as we approach the...
Turkey, Ukraine Press Forward With Plans for Two-Front Anti-Russian Proxy War
A meeting between foreign and defense ministry officials of Turkey and Ukraine was held today in the Turkish capital of Ankara in the format referred to as Quadriga (2 + 2), the first of which joint consultations were held in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on December...
US Army Identifies Arctic as Battleground With Russia and China
Last week the U.S. Army released a new strategic policy document entitled Regaining Arctic Dominance, an exhaustive 48-page work with valuable background information and striking graphics. Because of its length an attempt to summarize it with the accuracy and...
US, NATO Plan to Recruit India Into Global Alliance Against China and Russia
Call to admit India to NATO partnership to sever ties with Russia, confront China The policy he is promoting, faithfully echoing as he does the global strategic plans of Washington and Brussels, is to end 74 years of Russian-Indian military cooperation, supplanting...
NATO Think Tank Continues US Pre-Election Interference
On August 24 what is in effect the social media warfare division of the Atlantic Council published an article accusing the Russian television and print news outlet RT of running a one-sided attack against the Democratic Party and several leaders thereof ahead of this...