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ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) is one of the most important aspects of warfare. Without such assets and platforms, any military is virtually blind, making it either impossible or at least extremely ineffective to use any sort of strategic and/or long-range weapons. And yet, ISR is by far the most overlooked and underrated part of any conflict (possibly even more so than logistics and the economy of war). Very few people would even consider the possibility that ISR platforms can be used as weapons. Even legally speaking, there are no black-and-white grounds to think of them as such. This legal grey area is […] #Featured #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/07/why-is-nato-suddenly-backing-off-in-the-black-sea/?feed_id=13047

For well over 30 years at this point, NATO has been conducting a crawling, yet comprehensive invasion in Europe. After spending nearly a decade waging a war of aggression on Serbia/Yugoslavia, which effectively served as the testing ground for its “Barbarossa-like” strategic siege of Russia, the world’s most bellicose military alliance moved to the active phase of this plan. After decades of futile attempts to build a mutually beneficial relationship based on peace and respect, Moscow responded with the special military operation (SMO) to push NATO back. What’s more, the first stage of the SMO looked more like an expanded police action supported by some strategic […] #Europe #Featured #Government #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/nato-keeps-escalating-its-crawling-strategic-siege-of-russia/?feed_id=11259