Key Issues

Royal Air Force Typhoon fighters, such as the one pictured in this file photo, scrambled to shadow Russian long-range bombers operating near Scotland on August…

A NORAD F-15C aircraft from the Massachusetts Air National Guard's 104th Fighter Wing receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker during Operation Noble Defender.…

Ensign Zane Miagany, a marine science officer on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, demonstrates use of bridge equipment to an officer from the Canadian Coast…

Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, testifies before the Senate Armed Services…

THE WATCH STAFF With Finland having joined NATO in April 2023 and Sweden expected to soon become a member, Russia will remain the only nation on the Arctic…

The guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold was one of four destroyers dispatched to shadow a flotilla of Russian and Chinese vessels near Alaska. THE WATCH STAFF…

National Guard Sgt. David Breaud directs a high-water vehicle down a flooded road in Grant Parish, Louisiana, following torrential downpours in March 2016.…

THE WATCH STAFF Senior military leaders from the United States and Norway met recently at the headquarters of U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), where they…

Assistant Secretary of Defense Melissa G. Dalton delivers the keynote address. THE WATCH STAFF Arctic partners convened at the headquarters of the North…

U.S. STRATEGIC COMMAND The recent completion of a monthlong rotation by U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancers to RAF Fairford, United Kingdom, as part of the Bomber Task…