That won’t mean much if the personnel shortage problem cannot be solved. So far at least 17 ships have been sidelined because no crews were available. MSC needs to fill at least 95 percent of its ...

April 1, 2025: Mirage-2000 fighters finally arrived in Ukraine during February of this year. Ukrainian pilots had earlier been trained in France to fly the Mirage aircraft. France only has about 40 ...

March 31, 2025: The southeast Asian city-state of Singapore is responsible for security of the 223 kilometers long and 19 kilometers wide Singapore Strait that connects the Strait of Malacca and the ...

March 29, 2025: The Ukraine War was another disaster for the Russian army. In 2025 Russian military leaders are calling for another round of reforms, one that will work. All previous efforts had ...

This year Russia celebrates the 80th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War, known elsewhere as World War II. The May 9th Victory Day events are held in Moscow and cities throughout Russia.

March 30, 2025: Russian media specialists seek to minimize the damage done to their military’s reputation. At the same time military leaders are pondering what to do next. In 2022 Russia used its new, ...

March 26, 2025: In the last year Iran has experienced unexpected and colossal losses. The result appears to be the acceptance of less lofty goals. It’s not just the hated foreigners like Israel and ...

The nations enforcing the sanctions, particularly the United States, have tracked the routes of the Russian shadow fleet and noted the key role Hong Kong plays in arranging the movement of sanctioned ...

At the same time, Nigeria has a lot of other problems. At the end of 2024 fighting broke out in central Nigeria, with several dead and many more wounded. Fulani raiders continue to attack farmers with ...

By 2025 the war had a bad reputation. Six months into the war, Russian forces were on the defensive. Since then, Ukrainian troops were surprised by a rapid Russian revival and a slugfest began that ...