The SBU is the successor to the Ukrainian branch of the KGB. After Ukrainian became independent in 1991, obvious KGB loyalists were fired but many vets remained and they perpetuated a culture of ...

Something else Iran has to rebuild is belief among all Iranians that the current leaders will be able to end the poverty that has been growing over the last decade with a third of Iranians ...

Soldiers have been fighting the Arakan Army/AA rebels in the area since mid-2019 and periods of active combat have been increasingly common in the last few months. Not a lot of casualties but enough ...

Such attempts would not be impossible as Iran has small submarines and speed boats along with sailors willing to carry out suicidal missions to deliver the mines. Even that may not be sufficient, as ...

To paraphrase the poet Petrarch's summary of the enemies of peace: human fear, avarice, anger, pride and ambition frustrate solutions. After WWII, major powers attempted to appease, buy off, ignore, ...

In 2024 an Israeli effort to destroy Hezbollah succeeded. This victory took nearly a decade to plan but succeeded. It will take years, if not longer for Hezbollah to be reconstituted. That may not ...

January 1, 2025: At a high school in the northwestern city of Arkhangelsk, high school students have been using 3-D printers to produce grenade components for Russian soldiers in Ukraine. The ...

December 28, 2024: Belarus, which borders Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, was formerly part of the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Belarus was one the few fifteen ...

December 29, 2024: During several months of operations, Israeli managed to virtually destroy Iran-backed Hezbollah. This is a Lebanese Shia faction which operates as de facto government with a ...

December 31, 2024: China has much to fear from west Pacific nations South Korea and Japan combining their submarine fleets with the 25 or more U.S. Navy submarines based in the region. Japan has 22 ...