Yearly Archive: 2022

The U.S. and its allies are aiming to provide Ukraine with an integrated air defense system that will give enhanced protection to high-priority parts of the country, the top American military officer said Wednesday.

The system, to be built from a range of assets from multiple countries, will invo…

TAIPEI — China is looking at the experience of the war in Ukraine to develop “hybrid warfare” strategies against Taiwan including using drones and psychological pressure, a senior Taiwanese security official said on Wednesday.

Taiwan has been carefully studying the lessons of the Ukraine war to…

North Korean state media quoted Kim as saying the tests showed the readiness of the country’s nuclear forces for “actual war.” North Korea has conducted a record number of tests this year.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised long-range cruise missile tests, state media said on Thursday. Ki…

Germany has delivered the first of four high-tech air-defense missile systems to Ukraine. The IRIS-T is designed to protect cities and armies from air attacks.

Ukraine now owns one of the world’s most advanced air defense systems to protect it from Russian cruise missiles, after Germany’s somewha…

Russia’s latest attacks in Ukraine have shown the “malice and cruelty” of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “war of choice,” and have strengthened the resolve among Ukraine’s allies in their support of Kyiv, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said today in Brussels.

“Russia’s latest barrag…

Today, during discussion of a matter of significant national importance in the parliament (Riigikogu), Minister of Defence of Estonia Hanno Pevkur stated that to ensure the sustainable financing of national defence, defence expenditures must, in the form of a cross-party agreement, reach the permane…