While many Chinese officers were found to be corrupt and incompetent, there were exceptions, but not enough to command the number of operable ships, heavy weapons, and aircraft available. Corruption ...

The Ottoman Siege of Malta. Clashing civilizations, rival great powers, cutting-edge technology: we have been here before, as Marcus Bull, a professor at the University of North C ...

In response to the Russian partisan attacks, the Russian army deployed over 30,000 soldiers in border areas where the partisans, both Russian and Ukrainian, were operating. The partisans were numerous ...

There are also a large number of volunteers serving as support personnel or assisting the Ukrainians to rebuild as well as helping Ukrainian civilians made homeless by the fighting. Many of these ...

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North Korea has extended the service obligation for new recruits from eight to ten years for men and from five to seven years for women. This change is imperative because North Korea is running out of ...

China has followed the American example and developed an extra-large underwater drone or XLUUV. The Chinese version apparently carries four torpedoes or eight mines and is automated, with no crew on ...

Western nations, which control most of the global economic activity, long believed that economic sanctions could force Russia to halt its aggression in Ukraine. These were first implemented in 2014 ...

Early in what Trump calls the 12 Day War, Israeli attacks destroyed Iranian air-space defenses, giving Israel air superiority over Iran. Israel could bomb anywhere. However, it lacked the penetration ...

U.S. Marines with 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, participate ...