While we often think of civil wars as conflicts between a group or a region and the central government, they can also arise in power struggles between different peoples and territories within a state. which the national government must then contain. In the most extreme cases, numerous different groups can fight each other in what […]
Kirillopotanov, who is the head of the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence, said that Russia is aiming to win the war by 2025 or early 2026, because that’s about as long as the Russian war machine will work before it starts running into some very serious bottlenecks. And according to Podanov, the Russian economy will start to […]
He was on the second floor of his house in Beirut. The call asked him to go to the seventh floor. Moments later, a strike hit the building. The Hezbollah commander was dead, along with his wife and two other children. Now Shukra was hiding for decades. His neighbors say he was like a ghost, […]
The Americans had planned to take the fight directly to the Houthis, whereas their European allies sought to provide escort missions through their own separate task, named Operation Aspides. Six months on, however, the Houthis remain undeterred, and more than 100 incidents have been reported with no end in sight. On the contrary, June saw […]
Russia had been preparing for the counteroffensive since November 2022 and was granted even more time to prepare when weather and weapons issues delayed the operation from its original spring date to midsummer. That time gave Russia a chance to fortify, meaning it was able to mostly hold the front lines. By November 2023, the […]
The operation, which marked Israel’s first direct involvement in the country: came in response to Houthi strikes against Tel Aviv the week prior. Yet such strikes also occur in the context of the broader Red Sea crisis. In October 2023, in response to the Gaza conflict, the Houthis began a partial blockade of the Bab […]
China was the world’s largest nation: There are more than 1.4 billion people living there. because to the population reduction over the previous 18 months or so, India has lately surpassed it. And one of the reasons why it’s been in decline is that in 1980, China established a restriction of one child per family. […]
The Chinese Communist Party has a network of espionage sites in Cuba, only 90 miles off the coast of Florida. In July 2024, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies released a paper documenting the increasing network of signals intelligence sites in the area. Similar to how the United States military runs intelligence gathering operations […]
There have long been whispers of US Special Forces: top secret missions inside Latin America. The idea its way all the way into pop culture with games like Ghost Recon Wildlands and the movie Sicarios. The human rights-focused think tank, Washington office in Latin America, used a Freedom of Information Act request to find out […]
the US House Armed Services Committee asked him about it: Congressman,That is just inherently inaccurate. So the US government is firmly denying that’s the case. The denial is consistent with the broader US foreign policy of strategic ambiguity regarding Taiwan. these soldiers actually permanently deployed or rotational? What’s the difference between rotational and permanent station […]