While the U.S. has taken part in previous iterations of the military exercise, this year's U.S. footprint was smaller as allied nations are pressed by the Trump administration to put more into European defense.

"It’s very easy to draw the wrong conclusions from the war in Ukraine," Drummond said, referring to slow progress on the front line, adding that a future conflict with a reconstituted Russian armed forces would be "fast paced" with a greater use of air power in the opening weeks.

A spokesperson for Poland's special services minister accused Russian intelligence Tuesday of orchestrating a railway blast that destroyed a key track on a route used to deliver aid to Ukraine. Jacek Dobrzyński told reporters that "everything indicates" Russian intelligence was behind the sabotage of Polish railways.

NATO’s defenders on Capitol Hill aren’t planning to let the Trump administration diminish U.S. support for the transatlantic alliance without a fight — even as the Pentagon moves to draw down U.S. troops from Europe’s eastern flank.

The DragonFire also offers a much cheaper than traditional missile-based air defense. It will make the U.K. the first European country to field an operational naval laser, placing it as a key leader within NATO as it faces the growing threat posed by Russian hybrid attacks on the alliance which include flying drones into its airspace.

Ukraine war also includes a proposal that names NATO’s Article 5 — but doesn’t carry the same security guarantee of the treaty, experts

The U.S. NATO envoy supports a German general taking command of all allied forces, a job that has been held by an American officer.

Tensions rose after a blast damaged the Warsaw-Lublin rail line, which has been used to deliver aid to Ukraine, and a Russian missile attack killed at least 25 people in Ternopil.

(Reuters) -Slovakia wants NATO to boost air defences in the country, on its eastern flank, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said after a meeting with the military alliance's chief. Fico, in talks in Bratislava with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte,

U.S., Polish and Romanian Soldiers demonstrated a new counter-unmanned aircraft system capability on Nov. 18, underscoring how

NATO fighter jets were scrambled and ground-based air defense systems put on the highest level of alert in Poland and Romania during a massive and deadly overnight Russian attack on targets across Ukraine,