Putin's Bad Options Russia's vaunted army has been shown to be a hollow force at best and a second world show army at worst.
Russian Soldiers Cursed Out Their Commanders and Complained They Were Getting Crushed in Audio Intercepted by Ukraine The exchanges appear to offer insight into the rock-bottom morale in Russia's military after months of fighting and Ukraine's...
China Might Not Have Russia's Back on Ukraine After All The Russian president conceded that the Chinese president has concerns about the war in Ukraine.
Russia's Reliance on Mercenaries in Ukraine Points to the Weakness of Its Military Putin wants to maintain positive public sentiment about the war and to avoid a draft, which would be very unpopular in Russia...
American Veterans and Former Officials Formed 'Fighting Chance Ukraine' to Aid Territorial Defence Forces A handful of veterans, defense officials and logistics experts created Fighting Chance Ukraine, a nonprofit network that...
B-21 Raider: The Air Force's New Stealth Bomber Russia and China Fear A hundred or more of the bombers will join the fleet in the next decades, providing the core of one-third of the nuclear...
Troops, Veterans Are Targets in the Disinformation War, Even if They Don’t Know It Yet Disinformation campaigns are effective because they feed into people’s beliefs and emotions.
Mikhail Gorbachev: The Contradictory Legacy of Soviet Leader Who Attempted 'Revolution from Above' "Hailed in the West as a democrat and liberator of his people – which he genuinely was – he increasingly became despised by...
The Den of Spies: Brussels, the Gateway for China and Russia Brussels' unusual concentration of diplomatic missions to the European Union, NATO, and to Belgium itself brings a high ratio...
Ukrainian People Are Resisting the Centuries-Old Force of Russian Imperialism "Over the past century, those who believed egalitarian and democratic nation-states would naturally succeed empires have...
Why Japanese Tanks Were Doomed in the Pacific Theater Today, the Pacific remains a prominent strategic interest for the U.S. military, but the Marine Corps recently deactivated...
Hegseth Says Wounded Knee Soldiers Will Keep Their Medals of Honor Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for...
The Italian WWII Frogmen Who Inspired the U.S. Navy SEALs While uniquely American, SEAL doctrine owes a technical and conceptual debt to Italy’s WWII combat divers, who first combined...
New Mexico's Health Care Crisis Is Forcing Military Personnel to Decline Assignments At New Mexico's three Air Force bases — Kirtland in Albuquerque, Cannon near Clovis and Holloman outside of Alamogordo — the...
Democratic Candidate for Governor of New Jersey Pushes Back After GOP Questions Her Service Record Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey in this year’s high-stakes race, is defending her Navy...