December 12, 2024: If you go to war, your chances of success are enhanced if you have better weapons than your opponents and your troops are better trained to use what they have. There are ways to ...

December 13, 2024: In 2022, for the second time since 2014, the United States actively supported efforts by Russians in general to bypass government censorship and freely communicate with the outside ...

December 11, 2024: Chinese President Xi Jinping hasn’t come up with a workable solution for the Chinese military’s serious problems. The main one is corruption, which is pervasive and crippling. This ...

The factions spill across current borders, which date from the Ottomans' post-WWI collapse (with a few later 20th-century rearrangements). For example, Turkey sees Syrian Kurds as allies of the ...

December 9, 2024: The Russian navy has not been mentioned much during the last year. The reason is that there is not much of a navy left. Case in point is the nuclear-powered Nakhimov, a 28,000-ton ...

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December 14, 2024: European defense manufacturer Thales has an autonomous mine clearing system. The French Navy will be the first to use this system and, if it works, other NATO nations will probably ...

December 10, 2024: Russia is trying again to create a national intranet that would only be used by people in Russia and unavailable to those outside Russia. This effort involves plugging the many ...

For example, some American soldiers returning from Iraq with undiagnosed health problems blamed it on depleted uranium metal, which is used in the 30mm cannon carried by the A-10 aircraft, 25mm shells ...