While many Chinese officers were found to be corrupt and incompetent, there were exceptions, but not enough to command the number of operable ships, heavy weapons, and aircraft available. Corruption ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

North Korea has extended the service obligation for new recruits from eight to ten years for men and from five to seven years for women. This change is imperative because North Korea is running out of ...

China has followed the American example and developed an extra-large underwater drone or XLUUV. The Chinese version apparently carries four torpedoes or eight mines and is automated, with no crew on ...

Western nations, which control most of the global economic activity, long believed that economic sanctions could force Russia to halt its aggression in Ukraine. These were first implemented in 2014 ...