Category: Notizie Estero

BERLIN — Alfons Mais, the chief of the German army, has sharply criticized the state of the country’s armed forces, slamming underinvestment in its military equipment against the backdrop of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“The Bundeswehr, the army that I am privileged to lead, is more or less…

Taiwan scrambled fighter jets Thursday in response to nine Chinese aircraft entering its air defense identification zone, the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense said on its website.

Chinese aircraft have encroached on Taiwan’s air defense zone with increasing frequency during the past year, bu…

For the first time a capability developed within the framework of EU’s Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) project has been formally activated in an operational context.

The Lithuania-coordinated Cyber Rapid Response Teams and Mutual Assistance in Cyber Security (CRRTs) typically consists…

“It is our assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin was prepared to go in big and threaten Kyiv [Ukraine’s capital],” a U.S. Defense Department official said Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. “The indications we’ve seen thus far in just these first not even 12 hours are keeping with our assessment …

On February 15 (local time), Minister of National Defense Suh Wook met with his Norwegian counterpart Odd Roger Enoksen and Norway’s Foreign Affairs Minister Anniken Huitfeldt in Oslo, Norway. They discussed a plan for cooperation between the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Norway in the areas of defe…

The United States of America is strengthening the Baltic security. On February 24 additional U.S. capabilities have been deployed to Lithuania: F35 strike fighters with weapons touched down at Šiauliai Airbase of the Lithuanian Air Force on February 24. The United States has taken another necessar…