Ukraine used a series of clever moves to maintain their troop numbers despite growing losses and increased reluctance of Ukrainian men to serve. Among the policies eventually implemented were months ...

Army units had similar problems with combat vehicles and artillery systems. This was the latest of several purges that have occurred. While many Chinese officers were found to be corrupt and ...

Khamenei is the senior cleric on the Guardians Council that is the final authority in the government. Twelve senior clerics on the council have ruled Iran since the 1980s. Tenure on the council is for ...

Container ships can carry over 24,000 TEU/Twenty Foot Equivalent 6.1 meter metal containers. These ships have crews of fewer than fifty officers and sailors. The Nimitz has a ship’s complement of ...

For nearly thirty years China has been making serious preparations to launch an amphibious operation to conquer Taiwan. The latest development is a barge that carries a 130 meter long road platform ...

U.S. Marines with Antitank-Training Company, 4th Marine Division, Marine Force Reserve, move ammunition from a Humvee during ...

There followed a frank discussion about the characteristics of Islamic culture that nurture and periodically revive Islamic radicalism and terrorism. For over a thousand years every few generations ...

Ukraine reported that Russian troops were using Chinese munitions and presented proof. When Chinese officials were shown these munitions, their excuse was that Russia must have obtained these ...

A wartime economy was adopted, with the usual infrastructure and social expenditures cut. There was another problem, over a million Russians, most of them military age men, left the country. This, ...

Russian jamming of GPS signals continues to be a problem in several European countries. Russia denies any involvement but the evidence of Russian complicity grows with each incident. In this respect ...