Yearly Archive: 2022

Turkey can limit the crossing of Russian warships from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea through its straits under the Montreux Convention. Could it have an impact on Moscow’s military agression against Ukraine?

Turkey cannot close its straits to all Russian warships because they may still ret…

SEOUL — North Korea’s ballistic missile launch this week appears aimed at demonstrating its policy line of “power for power” and grabbing global attention amid the armed conflict in Ukraine, South Korea’s defense minister said Monday.

Suh Wook made the remarks during a hastily assembled meeti…

WASHINGTON — In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg today announced activation of the alliance’s defense plans, which means also that it can deploy the NATO Defense Force. The U.S. Defense Department now stands ready to provide capabilities to hel…

The Russian invasion of Ukraine began as expected in the early hours of 24 February: a large salvo of cruise and ballistic missiles destroyed the main ground-based early warning radars throughout Ukraine. The result was to effectively blind the Ukrainian Air Force (UkrAF), and in some cases also h…

Jarred awake from its 30-year slumber by events in Ukraine, Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced in a special session of the Bundestag on February 27 that a massive shift in defense policy approach will now be undertaken. After years of neglect, low serviceability rates for key equipment and…

On the afternoon of February 28, minehunters “Sulzbach-Rosenberg” and “Homburg”, minesweeper “Siegburg” and tender “Elbe” set sail from Kiel. Their mission is to train and strengthen NATO’s northern flank.

In the morning, the minehunters “Datteln” and “Fulda” had already left their home port of…