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Dec 10

NATO draws up plans for its own fleet of naval surveillance drones

MILAN — The NATO alliance has begun planning for its own fleet of unmanned boats meant to help protect critical undersea infrastructure...

Dec 9

NATO to revise strategy on how to tackle hybrid warfare

The military alliance is looking for more ways to protect members' assets from sabotage by actors such as Russia and China. There is even...

Nov 28

How to Counter Russia’s Hybrid Threats? First, Make Them a Priority

Moscow’s hybrid war on the West needs a robust and smart response, which means coordinated action from the European Union. The hybrid...

Nov 21

Russia and China: Two Countries, One Threat

Since the outbreak of all-out war in Ukraine, debate has raged in the US on whether the Russian and Chinese threats can be separated....

Nov 19

Making Russia Pay for Hybrid Attacks

There is a range of actions the West can take to counter Russia‘s malign activities. With the problem worsening, they need to be swiftly...

Nov 15

The High North: NATO Confronts Russian and Chinese Ambitions

The Arctic region, once an isolated expanse of ice and silence, is rapidly transforming into a key geopolitical focal point. This is how...

Jun 6

The Kremlin who cried, ‘West!’

The Kremlin’s disinformation peddlers have long since tried to build the perception of Russia being allegedly under siege by malicious...

May 28

All the others are wrong!

In Russia, there is no more important subject for Kremlin propagandists than blaming others, especially Brussels and Washington, for...

Mar 25

Putin’s re-election and the messages it brings

A lot has already been reported about the so-called presidential elections in Russia during 15-17 March. There were no surprises, and...

Mar 12

Years of war

24 February was a sombre day marking two years of Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine. The war has also been a cyber...

Feb 27

Russia is losing the economic war: the West must not lose its nerve now

Despite a whiff of 1938 defeatism in Munich, nobody should be fooled by Putin’s fantasies. Russia is running a ‘hot’ war economy. Defence...

Feb 14

Russian milbloggers falsely accuse Kazakhstan of opening a NATO military facility

Russian military bloggers threatened the Central Asian nation after it opened a new conference hall at a training center for UN...

Feb 7

Time to take a step forward from analysis to a collective response

The latest EEAS report on FIMI threats reveals how foreign powers are systematically undermining democracies. This is not just an attack...

Dec 14, 2023

Russian and Belarusian information operations targeting relations between Poland and Lithuania

INTRODUCTION Relations between Lithuania and Poland have been steadily improving recently, and since the beginning of Russia's brutal war...

Jun 6, 2023

NATO aspirant country blames NATO for Russia’s war on Ukraine

Georgia wants to join the military alliance and the EU, but prime minister’s new remarks won’t go down well. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...

May 5, 2023

NATO should offer Ukraine a membership plan now

While the coalition of allies and partners supporting Ukraine has been highly effective in providing operational support, it has not had...

Apr 21, 2023

NATO deterrence and defence: Military priorities for the Vilnius Summit

Source NATO Force Integration Unit Lithuania At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s July summit in Vilnius, the focus will...

Apr 20, 2023

EUvsDisinfo - Waiting for another offensive

As different Christian faiths celebrate Easter, the Russian so-called spring offensive in Ukraine has slogged on without making...

Jun 15, 2022

A Fortified Eastern Flank to Face Down Putin

Franco-German efforts to seek a ceasefire in Ukraine have obscured an emerging consensus among NATO’s frontline states — there can be no...

May 4, 2022

The Smart Power of Lithuanian Foreign Policy

Whether by supporting a distant Taiwan and so picking a diplomatic spat with China (relative populations less than 3m versus 1,400m), or...