Britain will decide its future to either remain within, or separate from, the EU through a referendum to take place on 23 June 2016. A British exit (Brexit) from the EU might trigger some serious foreign and security policy implications for other EU member states. Should Britain leave, this is likely to be pertinently the case […]
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NATO allies are to deploy four multinational battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to help deter any potential Russian threat to the region. Reuters reported on Tuesday that the UK, the US and Germany agreed to send a battalion each, “to help deter any show of force such as that deployed by Moscow in
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The alarm sounded just after 1 pm last Thursday at Ämari Air Base where the Royal Air Force is stationed to deter Russian aggression in the Baltic States. 900 miles away inside a control room in the German city of Uedem, the staff at NATO’s Combined Air Operations Centre was tracking three unidentified aircraft. The aircraft
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NATO should deploy, as a minimum, a multinational “battalion-plus” battle group with a range of enablers and force multipliers in each of the Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – according to a recent report by the International Centre for Defence and Security. The report, titled “Closing NATO’s Baltic Gap”, suggests this battle group
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A report published last week takes a lengthy and sober look at practical implications of Finland joining NATO. To calm your nerves, and jangle those of your enemies, few things work better than a visit from a couple of F-22 Raptor warplanes. America’s fifth-generation fighter aircraft is stealthy, speedy and agile. These amazing machines have
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The biggest worry Finland seems to have in its long-lasting contemplation on whether to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is the unpredictability of Russia, and partly because of its eastern neighbour, also whether to make the decision to join unilaterally or with Sweden. In a recent assessment, commissioned by the Finnish foreign ministry,
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NATO is to deploy four battalions, or about 4,000 troops, to the Baltic states and Poland to reinforce the alliance’s border with Russia at the time Moscow is stepping up its military activity, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. According to the newspaper, the United States is to provide two battalions, the United Kingdom and
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The Estonian think tank, the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) recommends in a recent study NATO to transition the current Baltic Air Policing mission to an Air Defence mission to increase the presence of the alliance’s air assets in the region to face a potential danger from Russia. The study, commissioned by the
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Two Russian Su-24 jets made multiple aggressive passes of US warship USS Donald Cook, a US Navy destroyer, in the Baltic Sea where the Navy vessel was operating in international waters. According to the US Navy, USS Donald Cook encountered multiple, aggressive flight manoeuvres by Russian aircraft that were performed within close proximity of the
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During the allied Saber Strike exercise this summer, Estonia will host a record number of US troops; while the exact number is unknown, it’s estimated over 500 units of US military kit would participate in the exercise. The Saber Strike exercise will be one of US Army Europe’s largest multinational exercises this summer in a
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