Governments are starting to treat Vehicle Cyber as part of base security, not just consumer privacy. Poland’s armed forces have introduced a formal ban on vehicles manufactured in the People’s Republic of China entering protected military facilities, treating Smart Cars
The 62nd Munich Security Conference opened in Munich on 13 February 2026 with a mood of damage inspection. In the gilded halls of the Bayerischer Hof, Germany’s chancellor declared the post-war order effectively over, Washington defended the alliance while attaching conditions, and Europe’s leaders
For three decades, allied democracies treated nuclear weapons as an embarrassing inheritance: praise disarmament in public, renew the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT ) on schedule, condemn rogue proliferators, and quietly rely on the American umbrella to do the dirty work.
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When the last US troops left Afghanistan in August 2021, Washington said it was ending a war, not abandoning a country. In practice, it did both. And in doing so, tilted the region toward Chinese influence. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and
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President Trump’s bold bid to acquire Greenland has sent shockwaves through Europe and raised dire questions about NATO’s future. Danish PM Mette Frederiksen warned that a U.S. attack on a fellow NATO member “would be the end of everything –
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In response to intensified Russian and Chinese hybrid warfare, Western governments have started to expand the remit of their intelligence agencies. France and the UK have tightened their sabotage legislation, and Finland aims to give more powers to its intelligence
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The Baltic Sea has quietly become a submarine battleground. Sweden’s recent entry into NATO and Poland’s Orka programme are shaking up undersea balances. In November 2025, Warsaw chose Sweden’s Saab to supply three A26 Blekinge-class submarines, a deal worth about
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U.S. President Trump’s new National Security Strategy (NSS), especially its leaked passages, has provoked sharp warnings from Europe’s leaders that it undercuts eight decades of transatlantic unity. The draft NSS singles out the European Union itself as a problem and
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Emphasising the recurring rise of geoeconomics, Finland’s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen used the launch of the Nordic Economic Security Programme (NESPO) in Helsinki to pitch a bold economic initiative for the Alliance: a free-trade zone covering the entirety of NATO.
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Denmark is dramatically boosting its Arctic surveillance capabilities by purchasing four over-the-horizon unmanned drones. Norway has also been studying long-range drones for its High North, eyeing the MQ-9B and other platforms for Arctic surveillance. This is a significant upgrade of
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