December 28, 2024: Belarus, which borders Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, was formerly part of the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Belarus was one the few fifteen ...

December 28, 2024: In 2023 the United States assured Ukraine that effective long-range missiles would be sent. At the same time U.S. government officials wanted to avoid attacks on major Russian ...

The U.S. Navy is having problems deciding what types of weapons their Virginia class SSN attack submarines should carry. The most favored weapons are launched from torpedo tubes. It’s not just ...

December 22, 2024: If there were a war with China, one of the main goals would be to disrupt Chinese shipping. Submarines, especially the quiet and heavily armed Virginia nuclear powered submarines ...

December 23, 2024: Ukrainian special operations detachments have operated in places like Africa and the Middle East to injure the Russians and find out what they are up to. These Ukrainian forces ...

December 22, 2024: Military leaders, when faced with peacetime decisions on how to fight the next war. It’s common to seek answers in the last war they or others fought. For many nations, that is the ...

The Great Drone Hysteria first afflicted New Jersey and New York -- with maybes from Maryland and Virginia. Then California and Nevada residents reported odd airborne night lights -- flickering, ...

The Alawites feared retribution, and for good reason. The Alawites used terror to maintain power for decades. Most Syrians have good reason to hate the Alawites, as well as all those who have ...

December 20, 2024: In early December Abu Mohammed al-Golani led a force of several thousand armed men and quickly conquered all of Syria in a few days. Bashar al-Assad, the former ruler of Syria ...