The South Korean Navy currently operates 160 ships with a total displacement of 233,000 tons, including 21 submarines, 13 destroyers, 18 frigates, three corvettes, and 34 patrol boats, as well as 21 ...

July 3, 2025: Despite an annual defense budget approaching a trillion dollars, the United States military is more frequently unable to meet all its worldwide commitments. The U.S. Navy was only ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

July 1, 2025: On January 20 th , The Houthi militia in Yemen halted their attacks on American commercial ships headed for the Suez Canal. Those attacks resumed after the June 13 th -14 th Israeli ...

While many Chinese officers were found to be corrupt and incompetent, there were exceptions, but not enough to command the number of operable ships, heavy weapons, and aircraft available. Corruption ...

The Ottoman Siege of Malta. Clashing civilizations, rival great powers, cutting-edge technology: we have been here before, as Marcus Bull, a professor at the University of North C ...