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This article first appeared on the Atlantic Council site. The Pentagon's decision to quadruple its 2017 budget for European defense, due to the perceived threat of Russian aggression and the recent ...

Sebastien Roblin recently wrote a good summary of the increasingly popular narrative on the Suwalki Gap and—unintentionally—an equally good representation of the glaring gaps in it. Roblin notes that ...

U.S. and British troops have carried out the first large-scale NATO defensive drill on the border between Poland and Lithuania, rehearsing for a possible scenario in which Russia might try to sever ...

SUWALKI, Poland-- On a sunny Saturday afternoon, U.S. Strykers rumbled down the cobble stone streets of Suwalki, Poland, June 4 and were greeted by a gathering crowd of Polish citizens. Children waved ...

RUKLA, Lithuania - Multinational Soldiers with the Enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Poland completed a two-day tactical road march across sovereign NATO borders and arrived to Rukla, Lithuania, ...

The Suwalki Gap connects Moscow's ally Belarus to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad - but it is a patch of closely monitored NATO territory A 60-MILE stretch of land in eastern Europe could be where ...

WITH one word from Russian President Vladimir Putin, this tiny patch of land could become the next flashpoint between Russia and the rest of the world. But defence watchers say this thin strip of land ...

The jagged Polish-Lithuanian border spans about 100km from its most southerly point, where both countries share a border with Belarus, to the north where it meets the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

The Suwalki gap is about 60 miles long, a stretch of land found on Poland’s border with Lithuania. Its vulnerability could decide the fate of the Baltic states. The land connects the Russian enclave ...