A British-commissioned RAND study explains why effective conventional defense could threaten Russia’s nuclear forces — and ...

Children from several Kharkiv schools share a single underground school building. It has regular classrooms, an assembly hall ...

According to Colonel Ants Kiviselg, head of the Estonian Defense Forces Intelligence Center, Estonia sees no reason to change ...

Estonia’s foreign intelligence chief puts the odds of a new Russian mobilization at 50-50 and says CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow was also about NATO deterrence. CIA Director John ...

In June 2025, Ukrainian air defense forces intercepted a drone over the Sumy region that was initially believed to be a standard Shahed-136 attack UAV. However, closer inspection revealed something ...

Russia’s official communication toward the Baltic States has become noticeably more intense, more systematic, and more threatening in recent years. These are not isolated diplomatic statements or ...

One year after the now-famous Hedgehog exercise exposed how vulnerable NATO units were to advanced drone tactics, the picture looks different. At this year’s exercise, drones, remote-controlled ...

Recommendation: clear a three-to-five-kilometer zone along the border, leaving drones nowhere to hide. Underground fiber-optic infrastructure has to be built to enable continuous drone surveillance on ...

Poland decided in the late 2010s to move away from a posture of passive defense and has since been building a large, multilayered missile capability capable of reaching hundreds of kilometers beyond ...

Harden Gotland and you do not change Russia’s aims; you change its menu. On the Swedish island of Gotland, the routines of crisis have become as ordinary as checking the weather. In small villages, ...

A year ago, General Martin Herem stepped down as the Commander of the Estonian Defense Forces. Now, he's urging the Estonian government to move quickly on adopting drones in the defense sector.