Designing warships that will be used in the 2030s and 2040s is speculative but necessary to ensure that necessary preparations are made to incorporate new technologies when they do show up.

April 10, 2025: Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, there have been increasing Russian efforts to steal military technology and other valuable information from NATO countries. Norway was ...

Believing America is still economically innovative and its domestic market the world's biggest, the Trump administration has declared war on Big Debt (U.S. national debt). It is simultaneously pushing ...

April 9, 2025: In January Tripoli prison warden Osama Al-Masri Njeem was arrested and jailed while visiting Italy to watch Juventus play football. Two days later Al-Masri was released and flown back ...

During the first few months of the Russian invasion Ukrainian producers supplied their military with the needed weapons and munitions. Russia responded while destroying many of those arms ...

April 8, 2025: Recently the ruling military junta was dismayed to realize that they only controlled 44 percent of the country. Year by year junta control over the country declines, with no end in ...

Russia believes that conventional warfare waged in Ukraine and the unconventional warfare carried out worldwide complement each other. Russian efforts to destabilize Africa are supposed to divert ...

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 ...

Global defense spending reached $2.46 trillion in 2024. NATO members account for nearly half of global defense spending. Major Nation Defense Spending NATO spending is likely to continue increasing ...

The United States has had military bases overseas since World War II ended in 1945. These included over 300 installations dispersed throughout 49 countries in Europe and Japan. There were 225 in ...

Iran supplied arms to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Palestinian rebels in the West Bank region adjacent to Israel. A paramount Iranian goal since the 1980s has been the destruction of Israel. Esbati was in ...

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 ...