April 21, 2025: Total worldwide defense spending for 2024 was $2.46 trillion. Ominously, the annual growth of defense spending is accelerating. Spending was up 7.4 percent on 2024, 6.5 percent in 2023 ...

Afghanistan released U.S. citizen Faye Hall in March, after being held prisoner by the Taliban since February. The Taliban said Hall was ...

The foundation of any European peace plan for Ukraine is to have the forces to maintain and enforce it. The solution is a work in progress and no one knows how long it will take or how effective any ...

April 13, 2025: On March 26th the Sudanese army commander landed at the Khartoum airport.

British military planners quickly realized that the UK would have a hard time mustering 10,000 troops to send to Eastern Europe or Ukraine. Improving that situation has, so far, proved difficult.

Designing warships that will be used in the 2030s and 2040s is speculative but necessary to ensure that necessary preparations are made to incorporate new technologies when they do show up.

There was a similar fear in Norway, which also has land borders with Russia, and Sweden which doesn’t but feels itself too close to Russia. That makes the forlorn fourteen the scared seventeen. All ...

Russia continues to have problems with local or foreign hackers committing major crimes. For the last three years there have been massive thefts of billions of dollars from financial institutions and ...

Chechen efforts to create new MSDs in the region appear to be succeeding. Kadyrov uses some brutally effective methods. Any groups that oppose him are largely eliminated as Kadyrov arranges to have ...

April 20, 2025: Since August 2024, Russian efforts to expel Ukrainian forces from Kursk province made steady progress. Russia was so desperate that they hired 15,000 North Korean troops. The Koreans ...

April 11, 2025: In March of this year the American president halted most support for Ukraine and demanded that European nations do more to solve a problem unfolding on their eastern borders. The U.S.