Story by Matthew Schehl | Naval Postgraduate School | 07.21.2021
On November 25, 2018, a Russian commercial cargo ship suddenly parked itself across the narrow Kerch Strait on the Crimea, blocking three Ukrainian Navy vessels sailing in international waters from reaching the port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov. When they tried to turn back, the ships were rammed and fired on by Russian military forces, then boarded and seized. The event sparked......
Story by Spc. Miguel Ruiz | 100th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 10.06.2020
KFOR’s Regional-Command East planning officer, Maj. Chad Plaisted, organic to the Oregon Army National Guard’s 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, led the effort to gather the generous array of school supplies ranging from notebooks to arts and craft materials and other school-house necessities....
Story by Christine June | George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies | 06.10.2019
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – Thirty-eight security professionals from 23 nations completed the Seminar on Regional Security May 17 at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies here....
Story by Christine June | George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies | 04.05.2019
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies and House Democracy Partnership of the United States House of Representatives teamed up for the first time to host a parliamentary exchange focused on the oversight of security sector institutions and current issues March 18 to 22 here....
Story by Senior Airman Kirsten Brandes | Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa | 03.02.2019
A U.S. Army major assigned to Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa earned the Common Security and Defence Policy Service Medal for Planning and Support from the European Union Feb. 23, 2019. Maj. Aaron Testa, who serves as the defense liaison officer to the U.S. Embassy in Bangui, Central African Republic, received the medal from Portuguese Maj. Gen. Hermínio Maio, mission force......
Story by Christine June | George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies | 01.25.2019
BERLIN, Germany (Jan. 25, 2019) The George C. Marshall European Center and the Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik (German Federal Academy for Security Policy) hosted the second annual conference on transatlantic relations with a theme of “Reset, Rebalance and Renewal” Jan. 24 and 25 here....
Story by Christine June | George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies | 10.26.2018
The President of the Republic of Albania Ilir Meta told 98 participants from 42 countries that NATO’s intervention, particularly from the U.S. and later the European Union, saved the Balkans from becoming the Middle East of Europe at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies Oct. 25....
Story by Christine June | George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies | 05.22.2018
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (May 22, 2018) - Fifty-four mid- to senior-level officials from Europe, Eurasia and the U.S. focused on strategic communication and its importance to understanding state influence in “the age of post-truth,” fake news and declining social trust during the European Security Seminar-East at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies held May 14 to 18....
