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 ...

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 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 ...

South Korea has become the seventh nation to use Sea Launched Ballistic Missiles or SLBMs. The second version of the KSS-III submarines featured a number of firsts. They were non-nuclear, the first ...

Military spending also reveals another Russian tradition, corruption in military procurement Corruption is less tolerated and more frequently punished in the civilian economy. Military production does ...

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 ...

Soldiers have been fighting the Arakan Army/AA rebels in the area since mid-2019 and periods of active combat have been increasingly common in the last few months. Not a lot of casualties but enough ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...