Plesetsk Cosmodrome is 926 kilometers north of Moscow and 180 kilometers from the city of Arkhangelsk which is on the White Sea in northwest Russia. Arkhangelsk is opposite Murmansk, which is adjacent ...

December 16, 2024: Chinese companies have been taking on the management of more foreign ports. This is the port management business and is an important capability for many nations that lack the cash ...

In Poland civilian military police and intelligence services have been hunting down Russian operatives based in Belarus responsible for trying to organize a sabotage campaign in NATO nations in ...

Iran's current arsenal of sea mines is estimated to number around 2,000 and includes the domestically produced Sadaf-01/02 moored contact mines as well as more sophisticated bottom mines that depend ...

December 12, 2024: Russian troops in Ukraine have suffered such high losses since early 2022 that the Russian army has run out of soldiers. Russia recently hired 12,000 North Korean soldiers to help ...

December 11, 2024: Chinese President Xi Jinping hasn’t come up with a workable solution for the Chinese military’s serious problems. The main one is corruption, which is pervasive and crippling. This ...

December 12, 2024: If you go to war, your chances of success are enhanced if you have better weapons than your opponents and your troops are better trained to use what they have. There are ways to ...

December 10, 2024: Russia is trying again to create a national intranet that would only be used by people in Russia and unavailable to those outside Russia. This effort involves plugging the many ...

The factions spill across current borders, which date from the Ottomans' post-WWI collapse (with a few later 20th-century rearrangements). For example, Turkey sees Syrian Kurds as allies of the ...

December 9, 2024: The Russian navy has not been mentioned much during the last year. The reason is that there is not much of a navy left. Case in point is the nuclear-powered Nakhimov, a 28,000-ton ...