STRASBOURG (Reuters) -Recent drone incidents and other airspace violations show Europe is facing hybrid warfare to which it must respond with measures that go beyond traditional defence, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. “This is not random harassment,” von der Leyen said in a speech in European Parliament in Strasbourg. “It…
“OUR COMMITMENT to defend…every inch of Allied territory at all times”, declared NATO at its summit last year, “is iron-clad.” That may be true on the ground. But in recent weeks it has seemed shakier in the air. First came a wave of Russian drones, into Poland, on September 9th. Then a trio of Russian…
The British military has found Russian sensors in seas around the country that it believes were attempting to spy on its nuclear submarines, the Sunday Times reported. The Royal Navy found some devices planted on the sea bed while several washed ashore, the newspaper reported. Military and intelligence chiefs believe they were planted to gather…
In 2007, President Vladimir Putin stood before the Munich Security Conference and stated clearly that Russia considers itself at war with the West. This speech, often dismissed at the time as mere rhetoric, now reads as a manifesto for the Kremlin’s imperialist and antagonistic foreign policy. Today, Russia wages a brutal war of aggression in…