. Imagine your country's economy can be switched off by another country. Further imagine that also much of private life can be switched...

. The Russo-Ukrainian War has long taken the shape of a trench war, with an apparently somewhat flexible defence by the Ukrainians wherever...

. Tanks had mixed success in the First World War, but they showed much promise and European armies and military theoreticians pondered duri...

. This screenshot shows a random, yet fairly representative area in Eastern Ukraine. You can enlarge it by clicking. The fields are large, ...

. There is often a huge difference between peacetime theory (+ practicing) and wartime reality.  Armies are known to diverge from staying t...

  For years my go-to approach for deterrence & defence was tailored to the "NATO defends Baltic members against Russia" scena...

. Putin's pretence that the war of aggression / war of intended conquest against Ukraine is no war was ridiculed much, but it's a v...

  Germany is very safe these days. My normal check list Will we get blockaded? Will we get bombed? Will we get invaded? is almost completel...

. Back in 2016 I wrote negatively about U.S.Army brigades, pointing out certain cornerstone equipment deficiencies.   /2016/07/fixing-us-ar...

. NATO wants to add a DARPA-like program to spend money on military technological R&D. This makes total sense for NATO bureaucrats, who...