Bad recent history: When former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko fell in 1997, war erupted throughout Congo. A series of peace agreements -- U.N. blessed -- purportedly ended the Great Congo War in 2003.

Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, foreign workers have stopped entering Russia or left because so many of them were coerced into the Russian army to die in Ukraine. All this led to a crippling labor ...

Poland also contributed in terms of spending more on defense, by spending 4.5 percent of GDP on defense. The goal is five percent, which will take a few more years to achieve. Poland is spending ...

The latest one, in April, occurred 80 kilometers east of Moscow at the Grau ammunition depot. More than a square kilometer was scorched by the explosions, destroying 105,000 tons of munitions. Some ...

Books of Interest Fred Grant at Vicksburg: A Boy’s Memoir at His Father’s Side During the American Civil War Putin's Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos China's ...

There are also a large number of volunteers serving as support personnel or assisting the Ukrainians to rebuild as well as helping Ukrainian civilians made homeless by the fighting. Many of these ...

The carrier Truman was called in to deliver a knockout against the Houthis and did so with the largest ever number of airstrikes against a single target, the Houthis in Yemen. It worked and in early ...

June 22, 2025: The Central African Republic/CAR is suffering an unprecedented outbreak of fighting between nomadic herders and farmers who have long tilled the land and produced the food that feeds ...

This led to the Command Readiness, Endurance, and Watchstanding (CREW) program, developed by the Naval Health Research Center. Sailors were first equipped with wearable monitoring devices in 2021.

North Korea has extended the service obligation for new recruits from eight to ten years for men and from five to seven years for women. This change is imperative because North Korea is running out of ...

June 29, 2025: France has been one of the more generous European donors of military aid to Ukraine. This year France is sending Ukraine nearly all of French production of certain munitions. France is ...

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 there have been some interesting changes inside Russia. One of them has been the rapid growth of a Russian nationalist organization called The Russian ...