Now men will go content with what we spoiled. Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled. - Wilfred Owen, “Strange Meeting” ...

Summary: Formed in 1949 to counter Soviet expansion, NATO aimed to prevent Western Europe’s military overrun, focusing on maintaining air superiority, open sea communication lines to North ...

Slovakia’s pro-Russian prime minister has raised the prospect of his country leaving the European Union and Nato, arguing ...

Although the exact amount that Poland spent on defense in 2024 is not yet fully known, data from the Ministry of National ...

Sir Keir Starmer is facing pressure from European leaders to join a €500 billion defence scheme, amid threats to Nato by ...

As President Trump looks to fix the issues that irk him the most, the issue of NATO defense spending — one of his perennial ...

Keir Starmer is under pressure from European leaders to join a £420 billion defence scheme amid threats to Nato by Donald ...

Slovakia’s prime minister raised the possibility of a future outside the European Union and NATO as he said rapidly evolving global developments risk consigning both institutions to the “history books ...

Tom Clancy’s 1986 novel Red Storm Rising depicts a conventional war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. It’s... Here’s What You Need to Know: Nuclear war in unwinnable. World War II was the ...

A Polish soldier holds a Nato flag at a ceremony last year. Warsaw doubled its defence spending after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 ...

Instead, West Germany was accepted into NATO and armed as part of the alliance. As a direct response, the Warsaw Pact was formed on May 14, 1955. One of the first motions passed was the rearming ...

adding that just as the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet-dominated military alliance, “collapsed within a year, world events can send the EU and Nato to history books”. There are low levels of public ...