German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Europe-wide air defence system is taking shape as 12 European countries have signed up as fears grow over using intercontinental ballistic missiles as the Ukraine war escalates. Scholz proposed his initiative to integrate the patchwork of European defence systems into a European missile shield to allow …

The United States’ newly released national security strategy calls for restrained use of the American military in the Middle East. Instead, it prioritizes “out-competing China and constraining Russia” while criticizing the expanded missions of U.S. wars in recent decades. “We will not use our military to change regimes or remake …

More than 90,000 troops make up Russia’s “irrecoverable” military losses in Ukraine, as reported by the Russian media project iStories (or Vazhnye Istorii). One of the two sources of this information works in the FSB; the other is a former state security officer. “Irrecoverable losses” is a category that includes …