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 ...

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 ...

December 31, 2024: In Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, one of the enduring problems since the end of World War II in 1945 is the difficult and often rebellious tribes in the north. One of the more ...

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 ...

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, ...

South Korea has become the seventh nation to use Sea Launched Ballistic Missiles or SLBMs. The second version of the KSS-III submarines featured a number of firsts. They were non-nuclear, the first ...

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 ...