By Robbin Laird As the Nordics work through how to best integrate their forces, a key element to consider is how to shape a basing structure involving the Nordics which will enable an enhanced Northern European and North Atlantic defense. When I visiting Norway in 2018, I witnessed one of…
In an article published by NAVAIR on December 6, 2022, the arrival of the powerful engine for the CH-53K and its first disassembly at Cherry Point, North Carolina was highlighted. Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) recently opened a new chapter in the depot’s engine program with its first disassembly of…
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 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:…
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…
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…
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 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…
