Dear supporters, We hope you are enjoying your summer so far! July has been a busy month for Spirit of America, as our project managers have been all over the globe providing high-impact support for US service members and their local partners. Here are some highlights...
Last month, U.S. Africa Command led Exercise Flintlock, the premier annual special operations training exercise across Africa. For the first time, part of the exercise took place in Libya, a strategically important country at the center of Mediterranean migration...
As Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues into its fifth year, the West must remain focused on the larger implications that this war will have for the international community. Not only is Ukraine a democratic state with long-standing ambitions for further Western...
Greetings, We're just back from a trip to eastern Ukraine, where one of America's key partners is in a fight for security and peace. It's not well understood that Russia invaded Ukraine and launched a war. More than 10,000 people have been killed. Fighters backed by...
Greetings, Spirit of America recently conducted a second round of support for the US-led training mission in western Ukraine. As we shared with you before, the US Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade is providing critical training to their counterparts. The 173rd is the...
Greetings from Kiev, We just returned early this morning from the Antiterrorist Operation (ATO) Zone in southeastern Ukraine, where separatists and Russian soldiers have been waging war on Ukraine for the last two years. The violence has surged in recent weeks. Five...
Today is Armed Forces Day in Ukraine. The day is especially significant this year, 285 days after Russia launched its full-scale war against Ukraine. Spirit of America has delivered over 200 tons of lifesaving protective aid to Ukrainians on the front lines. Much of...
Russia’s unprovoked war in Ukraine has created the largest refugee crisis since World War II. Over 4.8 million Ukrainians have arrived in Poland alone, with a large majority of these refugees being women and children. The large scale of this humanitarian crisis has...
Crackles of boiling oil, scrapes of a metal ladle against a giant iron kazan, or Tajik cookpot, and rhythmic chopping of knives on wooden cutting boards created a cacophony that could only mean a delicious meal of Tajik osh, or palov, was to come. In Tajikistan, palov...
