December 15, 2024: South Korea is currently undergoing a political crisis that involves President Yoon Suk Yeolan, an unpopular president who tried to impose martial law to deal with protests against ...

December 15, 2024: Once more war has broken out in the northeast African nations of Sudan and South Sudan. Since October 2023 there has been fighting between the Sudanese government and major portions ...

The information provided by soldiers who have been there, or parents seeking to find out what happened to their sons in the army, has caused growing reluctance to support the Russian operations in ...

In Poland civilian military police and intelligence services have been hunting down Russian operatives based in Belarus responsible for trying to organize a sabotage campaign in NATO nations in ...

Iran's current arsenal of sea mines is estimated to number around 2,000 and includes the domestically produced Sadaf-01/02 moored contact mines as well as more sophisticated bottom mines that depend ...

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 ...

The Rocket Force has 120,000 personnel and operates nuclear and conventionally armed strategic missiles. China is believed to have between 300 and 500 nuclear warheads. The Rocket Force maintains ...

December 13, 2024: President Vladimir Putin’s disdain for the Russian space program has doomed the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Escalating incompetence among Roscosmos managers and staff crimped ...

This is where the Nakhimov and two or three of its sister ships are based. The shipyards are currently preparing the Nakhimov for a return to service by 2026. That may be optimistic because repairs ...

December 12, 2024: Russian troops in Ukraine have suffered such high losses since early 2022 that the Russian army has run out of soldiers. Russia recently hired 12,000 North Korean soldiers to help ...

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 ...