Ship-Killing Missiles Are the Pentagon’s Big Budget Winner
On its face, the Pentagon’s budget request for the 2017 fiscal year is bad for the Navy — seven billion dollars in cuts, including one fewer warship than planned and the loss of 6,300 sailors. But the...
View ArticleLa pistola de los nazis
Los antiguos romanos tenían un dicho. Si vis pacem, para bellum. “Si quieres la paz, prepárate para la guerra.” George Luger se tomó muy en serio ese dicho. El resultado fue una pistola conocida por...
View ArticleNigeria Wants to Double the Size of Its Army
The Nigerian ground forces wants to add 100,000 new officers and enlisted men to its ranks, doubling its size to 200,000 soldiers, Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Yusuf Buratai announced in a lecture at...
View Article‘Winter Is Coming’ for Putin
Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov suspects Vladimir Putin’s time is almost up. For most of 20 years, Kasparov was the darling of the chess world. Now, he’s applied his strategic skills to...
View ArticleObama to Reinforce Europe With More Troops, Tanks and Artillery
After a week of escalating tensions, Russian tanks and paratroopers, backed by artillery, helicopter gunships and fixed-wing warplanes, flood across the Estonian and Latvian borders. Despite NATO’s...
View ArticleThe Man Behind ‘World War Z’ Wants to Strengthen the American Homefront
Max Brooks’ World War Z is a masterwork. The oral history of the zombie war tells the story of a world recovering from the ravages of an undead plague. In Brooks’ narrative, the disaster is in the...
View ArticleRadio Kul Broadcasts for a Free Syria
Working in media, it’s hard to imagine watching everything you say for fear the government will come after you. But that’s what it’s like inside Syrian state media, according to Mohamad Al Barodi, who...
View Article3D Print a Russian Tank!
The Russian defense industry has been using 3D printing technology to create prototype components for the T-14 main battle tank and the rest of the Armata family of combat vehicles. Eventually,...
View ArticleUnderwater Firearms Are a Thing, and Russia Is Really Into Them
The Soviet Union began developing underwater guns nearly 50 years ago. The idea — to arm commando frogmen and other combat divers for underwater engagements, however rare and unlikely these subsurface...
View ArticleThe P-51 Mustang Made a Korean War Comeback
The public mostly remembers the North American P-51 Mustang as the fighter plane that protected Allied bombers over Germany and Japan during World War II. Overshadowed by newer jet fighters by the...
View ArticleSecretive U.S. Navy Submarine Went on a Dangerous Mission
On Jan. 20, 2013, the Seawolf-class attack submarine USS Jimmy Carter left her home port in Bangor, Washington. Less than two months later, the submarine appeared at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii for...
View ArticleStranded in Enemy Territory, a Rebel Splinter Faction Got Stuck
This is part two of a three-part series. Read part one. At first glance, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement/Army-North presents a positive alternative to Sudan’s ruling regime. The rebel group...
View ArticleRusia solo necesita tres días para conquistar Estonia y Letonia
La OTAN no tiene ninguna forma de detener una hipotética invasión convencional rusa de Estonia y Letonia salvo la guerra nuclear, según un nuevo estudio de RAND Corporation. Lo cual, propiamente...
View ArticleNicaragua Descends Into Absolutism
The bland, bleak cityscape of Managua fails to welcome its visitors. The Nicaraguan government has tried to solve this problem by constructing garish metal trees at landmarks, intersections and...
View ArticleSudan Spends Almost Everything on War
Sudan’s 2016 budget allocates a disproportionately large amount of defense spending that could comprise more than half the total budget. During a speech before Sudan’s air force headquarters in...
View Article‘Black Lagoon’ Is a Wonderland of Pirates and Crime
“Know what? You should go back to Japan. You’re just not cut out for this,” says Rebecca “Revy” Lee, a Chinese-American smuggler with a penchant for violence. “Well you’re the one who invited me,”...
View ArticleAfrica’s Defense Industry Is the Most Corrupt in the World
Of the world’s inhabited continents, Africa has by no means the biggest defense sector. Fifty-four African states are responsible for less than three percent — or about $50 billion — of the world’s...
View ArticleFor This Syrian Rebel Sniper, the War Is Personal
Said Mermet joined the Free Syrian Army after the military killed his nephew. “After he died, I couldn’t take it anymore,” he said. “Fighting the regime is not about revenge, but I am trying to honor...
View ArticleIf Russia Is Supplying Weapons to Hezbollah — Watch Out
As its relationships with the United States, Europe and Turkey have deteriorated since its interventions in Ukraine and Syria, one country Moscow remained on good terms with is Israel. This reflects...
View ArticleChina’s Island Missiles Can Effectively Shut Out the U.S. Air Force
China has deployed the powerful HQ-9 air and missile defense system to Woody Island — also known as Yongxing — in the Parcel archipelago, marking a new level of escalation in Beijing’s quest to...
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