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The US and NATO have been less than honest with Russia for so long, they?ve lost the ability to comprehend that there?s a new geopolitical reality undersco

8 MORRISVILLE, North Carolina — Soldiers from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 130th Aviation Regiment (1-130 AB), 449th Combat Aviation Brigade participated in Emerald Warrior 2021, hosted by the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) Feb. 20 to March 5 at Camp Shelby, Missouri. 1-130th AB’s mission was to conduct detailed planning in close coordination with friendly ground units and execution of aerial reconnaissance and attack missions integrated with joint fires in...

On April 21, 2021, the Russian president will give his 17th state of the nation address © Alexei Nikolsky/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS MOSCOW, April 20. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin on April 21, 2021 will address the Federal Assembly with the 17th state of the nation message. The event will take place at the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall in the very center of Moscow. Since 2000 Putin has delivered 16 such messages while Dmitry Medvedev during his presi...

Russian senator expects Putin, Biden to discuss strategic security during planned meeting According to Kosachev, Biden’s proposal to hold negotiations in a third country demonstrates how serious his intentions are MOSCOW, April 13. /TASS/. The presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, may raise the issue of reviving several strategic security and arms control treaties during their planned in-person meeting, Deputy Speaker of the Russian Federation Council Ko...

Diplomacy and Arms Reduction: A Personal Story Encyclopædia Britannica When the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, large numbers of Soviet troops and vast stores of arms and ammunition were left scattered around central and eastern Europe. Over the next decade and a half, the United States and many European allies cooperated with Russia and post-Soviet states to withdraw former Soviet forces back to Russia and eliminate large portions of the military stockpiles. ...

    This presentation provides a window into what it took to be a Cold War Missileer at all levels and in many capacities, from Second Lt. Parker reporting for duty at Ellsworth AFB to his rise to commanding the deployment of 1,000 missiles at six bases.  But the second phase of his career, as Director the On-Site Inspection Agency, while depending heavily on his experience as a missile commander, called for additional skills: as a diplomat and as an expert evaluator of technological situati...

01/27/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/27/2021 10:29 NATO briefs on forward presence at OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation Organised by the United States FSC Chairpersonship, the meeting aimed to enhance participants understanding of NATOs forward presence, and promote mutual trust and transparency. The Director for Operations in NATOs Operations Division, Burcu San, opened the discussion, addressing representatives from the OSCEs 57 participating states, including Russia. Sh...

Joe Biden’s Turn Lyrics of the week: Rescue me ‘Cause I’m lonely — Fontella Bass, “Rescue Me” Wash our struggles away Shine down on a brand new day Yeah, we’re gonna rise up singing Like a bird on the wing A million hearts beating — Warren Haynes, “River’s Gonna Rise” We have been robbed of a joyous inaugural, but that’s OK. We can gather, peacefully and en masse, on subsequent occasions. What matters to us now is cleaning up messes and changing direction. The biggest ar...

An exceedingly challenging agenda of urgent, important, and diverse arms control issues awaits the incoming Biden administration. To address it, the administration should consider the creation of a new agency to focus on cooperative threat reduction.