NATO is a military and political alliance of North American and European states that coordinates collective defense, military planning, and security policy.
Foreign Affairs published an essay arguing that France and the United Kingdom should lead a renewed US-European nuclear bargain. It starts from the author's claim that European governments no longer count on Washington to defend them.
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Drone strikes on at least seven ships off Romania and Bulgaria this month have left two people dead and at least 25 missing, ABC News reported. Some NATO members wonder whether Moscow is testing their support for Ukraine, but the account does not establish who launched the drones.
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Latvia is building border anti-drone defenses in which only the final neutralization decision is human, defense minister Raivis Melnis told Business Insider. The aim is to run the network with fewer soldiers, though the reporting does not say when it will be finished, what it costs or how many soldiers it would save.
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HMS Queen Elizabeth, recertified at Rosyth, will take over NATO Allied Reaction Force flagship duties from HMS Prince of Wales until mid-2027. Interestingengineering.com reports the ship's first task this autumn is resuming air operations.
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Czech counter-intelligence chief Michal Kudelka said Russia may escalate against states backing Ukraine within months, not years. He named arms-plant sabotage and drone or missile strikes as the risks, and said a military operation against a NATO state is not an immediate threat.
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Czech firm LPP Holding's $90,000 MTS-40 drone won NATO's first innovation challenge built around strike weapons. For alliance buyers, the open step is whether a jamming-resistance standard set for a contest carries over into contracts.
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Vladimir Putin said a "direct attack" on Kaliningrad "or maybe some other territories" would put the use of all Russia's weapons on the agenda. This week his embassies tied nuclear use to one observable event, NATO cutting the exclave off from Russia; Putin's wording lets Moscow decide what counts.
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At least six countries, most on NATO's Eastern flank, have bought or are buying the $15,000 Merops drone interceptor, a US defense official said. Allies are adding a cheaper layer against Russian incursions, and the Pentagon says it is one part of a wider defence.
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Swiss voters rejected writing a strict form of neutrality into the constitution by a projected 71%, an SRG and GFS Bern exit poll showed. The result lets the government keep matching EU sanctions on Russia without waiting for a UN Security Council resolution.
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Latvia's defense minister, Raivis Melnis, calls the West's arms industry a "peacetime establishment" that must spread production across sites before a war. Firms that agree with him concede that several sites cost more than one big plant, and in peacetime European producers would pay that premium.
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Romanian F-16s downed three drones over three consecutive days in late July 2026, according to an account credited to The National Interest. The precedent matters more than the debris.
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The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement extends a NATO-style attack-on-one clause to a nuclear-armed signatory, and reprices Gulf escalation risk without reference to any US guarantee.
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Business Insider tracked a Tekever AR3 from a Welsh airfield to a Ukrainian artillery reconnaissance brigade. The outbound logistics are the easy part; the feedback leg is the product.
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Task Force Legio hands course design to the people it teaches, and drops the two subjects where the students know more. What came back the other way was a capability gap.
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Brigadier Atle Molde runs the camp he calls Norway's most important information sensor on modern war, and his working rule is that an adaptation is worth copying only once you know whether it came from insight or from scarcity.
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Norwegian instructors say Ukrainian troops improvise better than partner armies manage, and that some of those same troops need remedial rifle work. Both are outputs of a training system, not traits.
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Two Western officials say Russian deep-sea vehicles rehearsed a system for damaging subsea cables without obvious traces near Svalbard, which makes the routing of Svalbard's two long fibres a question worth an answer.
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Prediction markets have lifted the odds on a September 23 signing from 64% to 75% while still pricing a US acquisition of Greenland at 5.9%, and the agreement itself leaves sovereignty with Denmark pending a parliamentary vote.
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Recorded Future's Insikt Group says Russia-linked sabotage in Europe rose four-fold from 2023 to 2024 and held at that level in 2025. It expects Russia to escalate in the near term, possibly into a full-scale New Generation Warfare campaign.
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The Series C funds a 28-billion-parameter model trained on more than 100 billion genes. Two of the partners who helped assemble that dataset, Nvidia and Anthropic's joint fund, are also in the round.
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