F-22s Deployed to Kadena Air Base
12/09/2022
F-22A Raptors assigned to the 3rd Wing, Joint Base Elmendorf, Alaska, arrived for deployment at Kadena Air Base, Nov. 5-8, 2022. 11.09.2022 Video by Senior Airman Gary Hilton 18th Wing Public Affairs
The Evolving Strategic Environment: The Danish View
12/08/2022
The Danish Foreign Ministry set up a Security Policy Analysis Group, chaired by Ambassador Michael-Johns, Danish NATO Ambassador (the featured photo), which issued its report on the nature of the evolving strategic environment. This is how the 16 November 2022 announcement of the public meeting to launch the report read:…
The USS Gerald R Ford Returns to Norfolk: Putting it into Strategic Context
12/07/2022
During a Bold Alligator story which I wrote for what is now Breaking Defense, I highlighted the importance of understanding what a photo meant when in context. I wrote in that 2012 article that because the Osprey was used to conduct an assault raid from the seabase deep inland, the…
Neptune Strike
12/07/2022
An activity aimed at testing the combined capacity of NATO air and naval power has just wrapped up following two weeks of training. Neptune Strike, a multi-domain exercise, ran from 14 to 28 October 2022. Seventy aircraft of various types, 20 ships and around 5,000 personnel from 26 NATO Allies…
The Way Ahead for Northern European Defense: Shaping the Future with Sweden and Finland as NATO Members
12/05/2022
By Robbin Laird The coming of Finland and Sweden into NATO changes how the defense of Northern Europe is worked. As Admiral (Retired) Nils Wang has put it: "Now one needs to think in terms of defence of the North of Europe from Iceland to the Finnish and Norwegian borders.…
NATO Enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Poland
12/05/2022
NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Poland M109A7 Paladins and M992A3 Carrier Ammunition Track (CAT) assigned to 2nd Platoon, Bull Battery 2nd Battalion, 82 Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division (3-1 ABCT) operationally controlled by the 1st Infantry Division (1…
Exercise Elangaroo 22
12/04/2022
By Flight Lieutenant Bronwyn Marchant This year, RAAF’s 19 Squadron played a vital role in the success of Exercise Elangaroo 22, hosting nearly 200 personnel along with the F-35A Lightning II and C-27J Spartan for the first time. Embedded with the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) at their Butterworth Air…
Exercise Steadfast Noon
12/02/2022
Air forces from across NATO exercised nuclear deterrence capabilities over north-western Europe from 17 to 30 October 2022. Exercise Steadfast Noon is an established and recurring training activity. BELGIUM 10.27.2022 Natochannel