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 ...

Putin’s only response to this is dubious assurances that he can set things right. He can’t and chaos looms along with growing corruption and demands for a new government. While Putin won a 2023 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite their realities, in 2019 the Russian parliament passed a Sovereign Internet law that created an Internet infrastructure that restricted Internet use within Russia by confining most Internet ...

December 10, 2024: In September 2024 Ukraine officially established the Unmanned Systems Force or USF. Ukraine has built at least two million drones this year and has established manufacturing ...

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 6, 2024: Since early 2023 Russia has been moving ancient T-54 and T-55 tanks out of storage for use in Ukraine. The 36-ton T-54 was the first post-World War II tank. It used a 100mm gun and a ...

While Russia had some long-range bombers at the start of the war, Ukraine soon developed longer range drones. Russia is running out its elderly bombers, because of sanctions is unable to make any more ...

December 5, 2024: 2024: The three operational Ukrainian maritime drones are Sea Baby, Mother, and MAGURA. Sea Baby and Mother were developed by the Ukrainian secret service, or SBU, and the navy. They ...

What the media missed was that the military, at least the Ukrainian forces, were trained to deal with asymmetric situations as a matter of course. To a soldier, asymmetric means the unknown. All ...

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