Taiwan has a powerful ally and protector in the United States. The Americans passed laws obliging them to continually supply Taiwan with new weapons and direct military assistance if Taiwan is ...

Many Iranians believe Iran has not recovered from the Arab conquest and the Islam is more at fault than the Arabs. Many Iranians now believe that, without the internal squabbling, Iran could have ...

Poland has also become the place where Ukrainians can come for training by NATO personnel as that is often inconvenient, impossible and illegal in Ukraine. A solution was soon found by updating the ...

This year Lite Beam entered service and in 2025 Iron Beam is supposed to be ready for regular use. Lite Beam is a truck mounted laser with a max range of 2,000 meters and the ability to disable or ...

Even Ukrainian drones shot down caused problems, like temporarily shutting down one of the four airports that serve Moscow and halting traffic on one of the major highways nearby. Crashing drones were ...

Another thing Putin wanted to avoid is NGOs manipulating the media as part of their own private international diplomacy. The NGOs have become a powerful force in the diplomatic arena, developing and ...

Currently the Japanese Navy has 155 combat and support ships. There are four helicopter carriers, 24 submarines, 36 destroyers, six Mogami class frigates, 21 mine warfare ships, six 240 ton patrol ...

U.S. Marines assigned to Reconnaissance Company, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, fast-rope from a UH-1Y Venom attached to ...

F-16s and other manned aircraft are still needed to find and attack other targets even if the pilots’ radio communications are jammed as pilots can adapt to unexpected situations. There are now ...

This matters because by 2019 South Korea is the 10th largest defense manufacturer in the world. That’s up from 13th a few years earlier. In 2024 South Korea was number 8 with a 2.8 percent share of ...

The FSB failure in opposing the Ukrainian incursion was caused by FSB preoccupation with investigating internal enemies and those suspected of opposing Vladimir Putin. Everyone in Russian intelligence ...

Russian attacks on grain ships and port facilities in Odessa have not seriously disrupted grain exports. It’s costly to repair the damage on land and Russia does not want to seriously damage foreign ...