Elisabeth Braw

‘Don’t mention the war!’ Remember that? Today, war seems nearly all that European leaders want to talk about. The prospect of conflict with Russia is real, and a confrontation seems increasingly likely. That’s why Europe’s political leaders are beginning to discuss, in frank and sometimes alarming tones, the ways their countries should prepare to fight.

The green movement must speak out about pollution from Red Sea maritime terrorism, which will devastate livelihoods and the oceans.

An increasing number of sailors are being abandoned by their vessels' owners, left stuck on board sometimes for months or even years.

The Russian Orthodox Church is known to be decidedly political. Its increasing foreign outreach from Africa to the Arctic is troubling.

The maritime order is falling apart under geopolitical pressure. Sign up for Editors' Picks

The vessel that hit Baltimore's Key Bridge is more than three times as large as its biggest counterparts 50 years ago.

If Russia wants to intimidate Finland by announcing it'll avenge the country's NATO accession with troops on the border, it needs to have plenty of troops at its disposal. And Russia simply doesn't.

It was only a matter of time: Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers are loitering in the waters of Sweden, NATO’s newest member state.

Though it's impossible to block this subversive armada, there are steps the bloc could take that would at least make Russia's business harder to execute.

Russia’s suspected jamming of satellite navigation systems is getting worse, and having an increasingly serious affect across the Baltic.