Poland also contributed in terms of spending more on defense, by spending 4.5 percent of GDP on defense. The goal is five percent, which will take a few more years to achieve. Poland is spending ...

Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, foreign workers have stopped entering Russia or left because so many of them were coerced into the Russian army to die in Ukraine. All this led to a crippling labor ...

Bad recent history: When former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko fell in 1997, war erupted throughout Congo. A series of peace agreements -- U.N. blessed -- purportedly ended the Great Congo War in 2003.

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 ...

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The latest one, in April, occurred 80 kilometers east of Moscow at the Grau ammunition depot. More than a square kilometer was scorched by the explosions, destroying 105,000 tons of munitions. Some ...

Books of Interest Fred Grant at Vicksburg: A Boy’s Memoir at His Father’s Side During the American Civil War Putin's Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos China's ...

Yorkshire & Philadelphia: Pen & Sword, 2024. Pp. xxvi, 196. Map, chron., notes, biblio., index. £17.50 / $34.95. ISBN: 139906312X ...

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 ...

Books of Interest Fred Grant at Vicksburg: A Boy’s Memoir at His Father’s Side During the American Civil War Putin's Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos China's ...