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Sep 30, 2024 | usni.org | Paolo Pizzolo |Ott Laanemets |Estonian Navy |Joshua Tallis

1. Stefan Wolff, “Kaliningrad: Russia’s ‘Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier’ Deep in NATO Territory,” The Conversation, 5 May 2022. 2. The other is in Kronstadt in the Gulf of Finland. 3. “Russia Simulates Nuclear Strikes Near EU,” The Moscow Times, 5 May 2022. 4. NATO, “First German NATO Brigade Troops Arrive in Lithuania,” news release, 4 September 2022. 5. Stephan Frühling and Guillaume Lasconjarias, “NATO, A2/AD and the Kaliningrad Challenge,” Survival 58, no. 2 (2016): 95–116; and Sam J.

Aug 29, 2024 | usni.org | Ott Laanemets |Estonian Navy

Rolando J. Machado Jr. Commander Rolando Machado Jr. is a native of Hialeah, Florida and a 2009 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. A career surface warfare officer, his afloat time has been spent onboard cruisers and destroyers.

Apr 30, 2024 | usni.org | Ott Laanemets |Estonian Navy

1. Vojtech Mastny, Sven Holtsmark, Andreas Wenger, eds., War Plans and Alliances in the Cold War (London and New York: Routledge, 2006). 2. Philip A. Petersen, The Northwestern TVD in Soviet Operational-Strategic Planning (Vienna, VA: The Potomac Foundation, 2014), 66–92. 3. N. Wang, “Danmarks Strategiske Udfordringer i Østersøen—et Sømilitært Perspektiv,” Krigsvidenskab.dk (January 2018). 4. Gunnar Möller, The Mine War in the Baltic Sea 1914–1915 [English translation] (Columbus Förlag, 2016), 94–95. 5.