Cybersecurity and defence news and analysis
BHC Laboratory, an Estonian company, has won a European Defence Agency’s (EDA) bid to organise a strategic cyber security exercise. BHC Laboratory, a company specialised in cyber security products and solutions, is the first Estonian company to win an EDA bid. The exercise will take place at the Portuguese National Defence Institute from 12-14 May […]
A company-sized element of the US Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team – about 150 soldiers – will arrive in Poland on 24 April to begin a bilateral infantry exercise with Polish troops; in the coming days, about 450 additional soldiers will arrive for similar exercises in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The exercises are the
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To mark the ten years since Estonia joined NATO, Chris Holtby, the British Ambassador to Estonia, writes about the UK-Estonian defence cooperation. More than sixty years ago, the UK became one of the founding members of NATO and it has remained a bedrock of our defence and security ever since. We work together with many
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US Vice President Joe Biden has said the United States is ready to raise its military presence in the Baltics amid Russian aggression in Crimea. Biden told Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the president of Estonia, in Warsaw, Poland on 18 March that in addition to the six American F-15 aircraft in Lithuania that were deployed on 6 March,
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In response to the Russian aggression in Crimea, US President Barack Obama spoke with his counterparts in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, reaffirming the American commitment to defend the Baltic states under the NATO collective defence article. In a conference call on 8 March between Obama and Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Latvian leader Andris Berzins
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The US military has increased its presence in the Baltics in response to the crisis in Ukraine, having deployed jets now in Britain – six F-15 fighters and one KC-135 re-fueler – to Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania. The US already has four F-15s in Lithuania as part of NATO’s Baltic air policing rotation –
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The primary goal of any nation-state is, first and foremost, to ensure its own security from internal and external threats. The Republic of Estonia is no different, with territorial integrity and the safety of its citizens ranking at the top of its list of foreign policy priorities. Today, as historically, the most effective way to
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At the sidelines of the NATO ministerial meeting that took place in Brussels in December, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and US Secretary of State John Kerry signed a landmark agreement regarding cyber cooperation that, except for a few articles recycling press release text, went largely unheeded by both the general public and the (cyber)
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It has been suggested that in the scenario of a hypothetical Russia’s attack on the Baltic States, it would commence with an attack on Lithuania, not Estonia or Latvia. The Lithuania Tribune recently presented an overview of the possible attack, based on Lithuania’s defence analyst Aleksandras Matonis’ analysis. The original article can be found here. At
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President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, extolled the virtues of Estonia’s e-government infrastructure and IT systems and discussed trust and identity on Tuesday in a keynote speech hosted by the Legatum Institute in London. The broad theme of Ilves’s speech was that of identity and trust. Making reference to Peter Steiner’s famous 1993 New Yorker
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