Ukrainian and NATO military leaders tend to agree on what is needed but politicians are less able, or willing, to understand the requirements for victory against the Russians. There are also ...

France has sent substantial military aid to Ukraine. One of the more popular and useful weapons was the Caesar truck mounted 155mm artillery system. After receiving its first Caesar artillery systems, ...

Corruption scandals are not new and officials and top officials have been accused of profiting from their positions for decades. Corruption in Russia is used to encourage some officials, while ...

Popular attitudes towards the use of pardons to get criminals to serve in the military are horrifying to parents of men with no criminal record. The pardoned criminals are seen as unreliable and ...

January 10, 2025: Back in the 1990s the U.S. and Chinese navies both experimented with using TRAM, or Transportable Re-Arming Mechanism for reloading the Vertical Launch System or VLS cells that are ...

Damaged skin is a major problem among soldiers everywhere. Twenty years ago the American military took inadvertent advantage of those fears by introducing Active Defense System or ADS technology. ADS ...

In a speech delivered Jan. 7, Trump said he thought the United States should buy Greenland from Denmark to secure the north and, if necessary, regain control of the Panama Canal if the Republic of ...

The perennially controversial question of “Who Started World War I,” is revisited by Prof. Mombauer (Open University, U.K.), in this thoroughly revised edition of her The Origins of the First World ...

The Russian disinformation had some success, but nothing decisive. That’s because Russia was the invader of Ukraine, not the victim of any non-existent NATO conspiracy. There is ample evidence of ...

In Ukraine Russia has found that their usual infantry tactics were not working. This is the first war Russia has fought since World War II against an equally armed and trained opponent. Russian troops ...

Other overseas threats involve nations and coalitions. American politicians are warning their European NATO allies that Europe must assume more responsibility for their own defense. Since the 1950s ...

Roadrunner is a small VTOL/Vertical Take Off and Landing drone that can be used for reconnaissance and return after each mission to be reused several times. If the explosive warhead and fire control ...