For nearly thirty years China has been making serious preparations to launch an amphibious operation to conquer Taiwan. The latest development is a barge that carries a 130 meter long road platform ...

Khamenei is the senior cleric on the Guardians Council that is the final authority in the government. Twelve senior clerics on the council have ruled Iran since the 1980s. Tenure on the council is for ...

There followed a frank discussion about the characteristics of Islamic culture that nurture and periodically revive Islamic radicalism and terrorism. For over a thousand years every few generations ...

Despite claims that at slight more than 300 ships the U.S. Navy is "too small," it is, of course the largest in the world. But who has the second largest? Well, one could make a good argument that not ...

U.S. Marines with Antitank-Training Company, 4th Marine Division, Marine Force Reserve, move ammunition from a Humvee during ...

Container ships can carry over 24,000 TEU/Twenty Foot Equivalent 6.1 meter metal containers. These ships have crews of fewer than fifty officers and sailors. The Nimitz has a ship’s complement of ...

The x-ray evidence consisted of an x-ray image of a child that had been taken by photographing a real child head x-ray with a bullet positioned behind the child’s head or an x-ray of a child’s head ...

A wartime economy was adopted, with the usual infrastructure and social expenditures cut. There was another problem, over a million Russians, most of them military age men, left the country. This, ...

Ukraine reported that Russian troops were using Chinese munitions and presented proof. When Chinese officials were shown these munitions, their excuse was that Russia must have obtained these ...

This leaves Russia with only two alternatives. One is North Korea, which has a feeble economy with a GDP of only $30 billion and has long been subject to economic sanctions. The other alternative is ...

North Korea currently has one of the world’s largest armies with around 1.3 million active-duty soldiers. North Korea has not been directly involved in any major wars for over 70 years. Lack of ...

February 16, 2025: In late 2024, photos of China’s new J-36 stealth fighter appeared. The photos showed a tailless double delta flying wing design. This enhances stealth and only one J-36 is flying as ...