In 2024 an Israeli effort to destroy Hezbollah succeeded. This victory took nearly a decade to plan but succeeded. It will take years, if not longer for Hezbollah to be reconstituted. That may not ...

Something else Iran has to rebuild is belief among all Iranians that the current leaders will be able to end the poverty that has been growing over the last decade with a third of Iranians ...

To paraphrase the poet Petrarch's summary of the enemies of peace: human fear, avarice, anger, pride and ambition frustrate solutions. After WWII, major powers attempted to appease, buy off, ignore, ...

The SBU is the successor to the Ukrainian branch of the KGB. After Ukrainian became independent in 1991, obvious KGB loyalists were fired but many vets remained and they perpetuated a culture of ...

January 2, 2025: In 2018 Norway openly complained about Russia deliberately jamming GPS signals in Norway. The jamming was done from a Russian military base in the Kola Peninsula on the Barents Sea, ...

At the direction of the Chief of Staff Army and the Commander, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), the TRADOC Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ODCSINT) has studied ...

Estimates of the number of men engaged at Gettysburg vary widely. Figures for the strength of the Army of Northern Virginia range from a low of about 65,000 men of all arms to a high of about 75,000, ...

January 1, 2025: At a high school in the northwestern city of Arkhangelsk, high school students have been using 3-D printers to produce grenade components for Russian soldiers in Ukraine. The ...

December 8, 2024: In mid-2023 the Southern Africa Development Community, SADAC, extended its military mission in Mozambique. A year later on Oct. 24 Daniel Chapo won the Oct. 9 election, extending ...

The ability of the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized) (3ID (M)) to mass joint fires on the battlefield contributed largely to its success in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF). From the initial ...

Accounts of Gettysburg seem never to mention the strong odor which must have hung over the field. The troops on both sides had been marching for weeks in seasonably hot weather with little opportunity ...

December 31, 2024: In Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, one of the enduring problems since the end of World War II in 1945 is the difficult and often rebellious tribes in the north. One of the more ...