American political and military leaders agree that European NATO countries should spend more for their own defense. To encourage that the Americans plan to remove U.S. forces from Europe and tell the ...

Iraq has been at war since 2003, when troops from the U.S. and Britain invaded to oust dictator Saddam Hussein. The invasion succeeded in less than 40 days, but resistance from irregulars and Islamic ...

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 ...

Beijing coveted the DRC's mineral trove -- a global position of immense economic import. In 2006 and 2007, Chinese front companies began buying DRC cobalt, copper and rare earth mineral operations. In ...

Worse, the Ukrainians destroyed the Black Sea fleet with airborne and naval drones. The few surviving ships fled to the Sea of Azov, a branch of the Black Sea in the northeast, 1,300 kilometers from ...

Russian leaders were intensely proud of having the largest tank fleet in the world for over fifty years. While the Red Army largely disintegrated in the early 1990s, the army sought to keep as many of ...

March 31, 2025: During January 2025 Chinese and Filipino coast guard ships collided ships in the South China Sea near Second Thomas Shoal. Four Filipino crewmen were injured. China also employed 40 ...

March 30, 2025: In February the first Iranian aircraft carrier, the 40,000 ton Shahid Bahman Bagheri, entered service. Top speed is 32 kilometers an hour and max endurance range is 39,000 kilometers.

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 ...