NATO has launched its week-long annual nuclear exercises in Europe as Russia plans its own nuclear war games around the same time and as tensions simmer over the Russia–Ukraine conflict. Dubbed “Steadfast Noon,” NATO’s nuclear exercises kicked off on Oct. 17 and are “ongoing,” a NATO spokesperson confirmed to The Epoch Times. Fourteen of NATO’s…

NATO has begun its week-long annual nuclear exercises in Europe as Russia plans its own nuclear war games around the same time and as tensions simmer over the Russia–Ukraine conflict. Dubbed “Steadfast Noon,” the NATO training kicked off on Oct. 17 and is “ongoing,” a NATO spokesperson confirmed to The Epoch Times. Fourteen of NATO’s…

Commentary Vladimir Putin has emerged as a major benefactor of President Joe Biden’s surrender in Afghanistan and his backing off sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Russia and Belarus have announced plans to conduct a joint military exercise from Sept. 10 to 16 called Zapad 2021 that takes on added significance due to NATO’s humiliation in Afghanistan and…

The U.S. Air Force will struggle to maintain pressure on the Chinese military if conflict erupts around the Taiwan Strait, according to a recent war games analysis. “F-22s and F-35s operating under ideal conditions at sophisticated home bases here in the United States, have an ‘operational readiness’ rate of about 60 percent,” Joseph Siracusa, adjunct…