Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com As Russia escalated tensions with Kiev and finally launched an invasion force, the U.S. and other NATO allies were beefing up naval presence in the Black Sea in an effort to muster a show of resolve against Russia’s adventurism. Two more NATO warships, the USS Ross, an Arleigh Burke-class guided […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The post-Soviet ebb of Russian naval glory seems to be over under a more aggressive President Vladimir Putin. That seems to be the unmistakable message Moscow is trying to send to the world. In recent weeks, President Putin ordered a dramatic increase of Russian naval presence in the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued another challenge to U.S. global military influence by dispatching a large naval flotilla to the vehemently anti-American regime in Venezuela. Thus far, a toughened stance toward the United States seems to be the main result of President Barack Obama’s U.S.-Russia “reset button” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com A large-scale military drill was ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin last week to intimidate a defiant Georgia for rejecting a Kremlin-proposed draft of a non-aggression pact that would recognize the runaway region of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Yet while the drill was going on in earnest, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW — Russia has been examining the expansion of its new task force in the Mediterranean Sea. The Russian Navy said its Mediterranean task force could reach six warships in 2013. The Navy said it could contribute one or more nuclear submarines in operations near Syria. “Depending on the scope of assignments […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Over 300 Russian Marines are onboard a flotilla of at least five warships from Russia’s Baltic Fleet and the Black Sea Fleet en route to the Syrian coast in the Mediterranean, both Russian and Israeli sources have confirmed. Moscow had earlier stated that the purpose of sending […]
Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW — The Russian Navy has completed preparations of a major exercise along the coast of Syria. Officials said the Russian Navy has sent a fleet to the eastern Mediterranean Sea for a major exercise in mid-January. They said the four-day exercise would include combat and logistics vessels. “A tactical group of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW — The Russian Navy has deployed a combat vessel off the coast of Syria. Russian sources said the Navy deployed a warship off the coast of Syria earlier this month. The sources said the naval mission was identified as that of counter-piracy. “The ship is operating out of the [Syrian] port […]