Wargame Warns NATO Unready For Baltic Crisis

Wargame Warns NATO Unready For Baltic Crisis
Wargame Warns NATO Unready For Baltic Crisis

WASHINGTON: NATO would be dangerously slow to respond to a crisis scenario in the Baltics, warns a new report on a closed-doors wargame. That raises the unsettling possibility that in a Crimean-style land grab, Russia could simply seize what it wants before the US and its allies react. Compared to Vladimir Putin’s nimble mix of…

Russia Builds ‘Arc Of Steel’: Adm. Ferguson

Russia Builds ‘Arc Of Steel’: Adm. Ferguson
Russia Builds ‘Arc Of Steel’: Adm. Ferguson

WASHINGTON: “We are observing the manifestation of a more aggressive, more capable Russian navy,” the US Navy’s top commander in Europe said today. And if that fleet is Putin’s seagoing hammer, missile bases ashore are his land-based anvil. Complementing Russian naval modernization, Adm. Mark Ferguson said, we have seen “the construction of an arc of…

Minefields At Sea: From The Tsars To Putin

Minefields At Sea: From The Tsars To Putin
Minefields At Sea: From The Tsars To Putin

This is the first of three stories on the crucial but neglected question of sea mines and how well — or not — the United States manages this very real global threat. Since World War II, mines have sunk or crippled 15 US Navy ships, more than all other weapons put together. Like roadside bombs on land,…