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 ...

Key: On this table, figures originally given in various local coinages have all been converted to livres tournais, worth about £4 sterling; s, shilling, of which there were 12 to the pound; d, penny, ...

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 ...

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

February 21, 2025: Last year there was a story carried by major newspapers reporting that 65 medical personnel working in Gaza had collected evidence of Israeli soldiers deliberately shooting ...

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 ...

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 ...