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TRENTON, NJ – The New Jersey National Guard has been selected as the new state partner for the Republic of Cyprus, the third-largest island in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Through the Department of Defense National Guard Bureau State Partnership Program, National Guard units throughout the Unit

NICOSIA - Including Cyprus in a military cooperation deal through the Pentagon, linking National Guard units with the United States, has drawn the ire of Turkish-Cypriots, occupying the northern third of the island, protected by 40,000 soldiers. The self-declared republic that's unrecognized in t

As the US and Turkey pull further apart, Cyprus is becoming an area of increasingly intense competition between them.

The U.S. National Guard’s State Partnership Program pairs state National Guards with America’s willing partners around the globe and advances practical engagement with them. For 20 years, Oklahoma’s partnership with the republic of Azerbaijan is one of the prominent examples of the program.

The Oklahoma National Guard-Azerbaijan exchange focused on cybersecurity, since global challenges in that security realm continue evolving.

Three members of the Azerbaijan army who visited Oklahoma recently met with members of a joint team of the Oklahoma Air and Army National Guard to collaborate on cybersecurity challenges.

Parties have come together in pre-election alliances, but will these alliances hold after the results are announced?

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The Senate will likely soon consider whether or not to approve the accession of the Balkan nation of Montenegro to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). While small, Montenegro sits in a geographically important region and has proven itself a worthy partner to the U.S. Furthermore, it has carried out essential reforms and contributed to NATO-led missions. Montenegro’s NATO membership would serve U.S. interests by helping stabilize the region and by strengthening the alliance.

As a land force, the Army is strategically poised to leverage relationships with allies and partners in multidomain competition, but it must continue to proactively build its network, according to the author of a new paper. Describing the Army’s security force assistance brigades, Special Forces soldiers and the State Partnership Program as a “security force assistance triad,” author Charles McEnany writes that all three are critical to the Army’s “modernization for strategic competiti...