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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

December 30, 2024: Ukraine is using some unique tactics to defeat the Russian invaders. The most damaging tactic is that when Russian troops attack, they suffer substantial casualties as the ...

December 29, 2024: In September Israel launched a record number of airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. This was to disrupt and possibly destroy the ability of Hezbollah to fire rockets ...

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 ...