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FILE - In this Friday, May 9, 2014 file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a parade marking the Victory Day in Sevastopol, Crimea. With hundreds of new aircraft, tanks and missiles rolling off assembly lines and Russian jets buzzing European skies under NATO&#8217;s wary eye, it doesn&#8217;t look like Russia&#8217;s economic woes have had any impact on the Kremlin&#8217;s ambitious military modernization program. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

L. TODD WOOD: Putin’s new defense strategy declares NATO a threat

By L. Todd Wood

European Security Challenged by Russia and Immigrant Muslims Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

YONAH ALEXANDER, PATRICK MURPHY: The survival of Europe

By Yonah Alexander and Patrick Murphy

The Gulen Influence on Turkey Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ABRAHAM WAGNER: Gulen movement seeks to transform Turkey into Shariah state

By Abraham R. Wagner

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009 file photo, U.S. Army soldiers stand with Afghan policemen before a joint patrol of Qalanderkhail, outside of Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. An Afghan official says that a suicide bomber has killed three foreign troops in an attack on a joint Afghan-NATO foot patrol on Monday, Dec. 21, 2015. Mohammad Asim Asim, governor of Parwan province said an attacker on a motorcycle rammed a group of eight troops as they patrolled a village near Bagram Airfield, 45 kilometers (28 miles) north of Kabul. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

6 U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan suicide attack

Associated Press

In this handout photograph from the US Navy, US service members deployed to the Naval Support Facility (NSF) Deveselu, groups center and right, bow their heads with members of the Romanian Military, left, during a religious moment of the establishment and assumption of command ceremony in Deveselu, Romania, Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. The NSF Deveselu Base, established more than 20 years ago, will be part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System. The US Navy has taken control of a new missile defense base in southern Romania, one of two European land-based interceptor sites for a NATO missile shield which Russia strongly opposes.(AP Photo/U.S. Navy / LT j.g. Alexander Perrien, Handout)

L. TODD WOOD: NATO activates missile defense base in Romania; Russia objects

By L. Todd Wood

Soldiers from NATO countries attend a opening ceremony of military exercise 'Saber Strike 2015', at the Gaiziunu Training Range in Pabrade some 60km.(38 miles) north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday, June 8, 2015. The annual multinational Exercise Saber Strike 2015 organized by the U. S. Army in Europe (USAREUR) on June 1 through 19 comprises brigade-level command post exercises held concurrently in all the three Baltic States and Poland. This year the exercise will train the record number of 6,000 troops from 13 NATO member and partner states - Denmark, Estonia, U.S.A., UK, Canada, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Norway, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia and Finland. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

L. TODD WOOD: Russia could block the Baltic Sea

By L. Todd Wood

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius wants clear messages from the West to counter Russian propaganda in the Eastern bloc. (Associated Press)

Linas Linkevicius, Lithuanian Foreign Minister, says Russian propaganda fills void from West

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

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Tinatin Khidasheli says Vladimir Putin may expand Russian aggression in Georgia after NATO’s snub

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Turkey Provokes Russia by Downing Plane Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

JAMES LYONS: Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist leanings may have caused him to provoke Russia

By James A. Lyons

NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Philip Breedlove (center) speaks with Czech Army General Petr Pavel (left) and French Air Force General Denis Mercier as the mutual-defense organization considers admitting Montenegro, a move Moscow says reverts to a Cold War policy of "containing" Russia. (Associated Press)

Montenegro invited to join NATO, a move sure to anger Russia, strain alliance’s standards

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and other NATO foreign ministers met Tuesday to discuss Russia, beefing up the alliance's southern defenses and whether to expand NATO by adding Montenegro to the NATO Alliance. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

NATO agrees to maintain troop levels in Afghanistan, help fund Afghan forces

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, 2nd left, gestures as foreign ministers gather for a group photo at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. The NATO summit will take place in Warsaw in July 2016. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)

L. TODD WOOD: NATO to offer membership to Montenegro

By L. Todd Wood

L. TODD WOOD: Russia says it’s ‘fully mobilized’ to deal with Turkish threat

By L. Todd Wood

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the deployment of S-400 missiles in Syria as he and other officials in Moscow escalated a war of words with Ankara after Tuesday's shootdown, which Turkey claims was justified on grounds that two Russian fighters ignored repeated warnings to change direction after entering Turkish airspace. (Associated Press)

Vladimir Putin orders S-400 missiles to Syria after Turkey downs Russian jet

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A woman holds a poster reading "Turkey to account!" as others wave Russian and Syrian national flags during a picket at the Turkish Embassy in Moscow on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin called Turkey's decision to down a Russian jet near the Syria border a "stab in the back." (Associated Press)

Russian jet shot down by Turkey ramps up Syria tension

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Calls grow for U.S. to permanently station troops in Eastern Europe

By L. Todd Wood

American soldiers examine the charred remains of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, that was hit by a U.S. AC-130 gunship last month. (Associated Press)

Doctors Without Borders refuses Pentagon money to rebuild hospital damaged in airstrike

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EDITORIAL: Will NATO rise to the geopolitical challenge

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A US AH-64 Apache flies over the combat zone during a NATO military demonstration in Zaragoza, Spain, Wednesday Nov. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Abraham Caro Marin)

NATO tests its capabilities — and wants Russia to take note

By John-Thor Dahlburg - Associated Press

President Obama will maintain a force of 5,500 troops in Afghanistan beyond when his presidency ends in 2017, which is less than half the six of what top military commanders recommend for the long-embattled country. (Associated Press)

Obama ignores generals on troop levels for unprecedented 6th time in Afghanistan, Iraq

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times