Secretary Mattis says deterrence is dynamic, changing "from year to year, from decade to decade".
U.S. General Curtis Scaparrotti, NATO's supreme allied commander in Europe, has warned that the alliance will not be “dominant” in certain areas in five years if it fails to modernize and adapt to the growing threat from Russia, according to RFE/RL.
The Trump administration plans to loosen constraints on the use of nuclear weapons and develop a new low-yield nuclear warhead for US Trident missiles, according to a former official who has seen the most recent draft of a policy review, according to The Guardian.
Anders Aslund, an expert with the Atlantic Council, suggests that the U.S. move greenlighting lethal aid to Ukraine might have worked as Russia’s military aggression decreased after the relevant announcement by Washington.
The world’s most deadly — and expensive — warplane is joining the biggest military build-up of forces across Europe since the end of the Cold War to deter Russian aggression, according to The Times.
Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Jens Stoltenberg emphasizes that the Alliance's strategy to deter external threats was not the reason for the Russian Federation's military invasion in Ukraine.