By building all those merchant vessels, China has acquired the ability to cheaply build basic warship hulls. It has big problems in creating the complex electronics, mechanical systems, and weapons ...

The culprits were Chinese and Russian ships that were in the areas when the cables were cut. One of these ships was boarded and searched. Evidence of cable cutting was found. Chinese and Russian ...

A B-2 Spirit leads a formation of a B-1 Lancer, B-52 Stratofortress, A-10 Thunderbolt II, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-15 Eagle ...

The historical record is definitive. Beijing's "Trojan stuff" can spy on you. Then — at a Pearl Harbor moment — the Trojan Horse stuff shutdowns or co-opts the computers and communications of a ...

Several nations subsequently adopted the use of Bitcoin. For example, in 2022 the Central African Republic or CAR was the first African country to adopt cryptocurrency as its official currency. North ...

China assumes that, after a few years of a U.S. blockade, enough nations suffering from loss of trade with China would successfully persuade the Americans to end it. This has many issues, but it ...

Meanwhile the Chinese Coast Guard has received larger and more heavily armed ships than its American counterpart. Over the last decade the Chinese Coast Guard has received over a dozen new patrol ...

The Saudis are also new at this international diplomacy, and do not have a legacy of past failures or disappointments. That will change as long as the Saudis remain active in regional and global ...

Unfortunately the Bundeswehr has come up short in the manpower department. While the German government supports and pays for rearmament, many military age German men are reluctant to commit. The ...

Another bit of good advice was to make a clean break after a war. The Americans still have over 20,000 troops in South Korea 72 years after the war ended. Over the last few decades South Korea has ...

In the latter case the drone can be recovered for examination or made to crash into the sea or ground. Israel installed EnforceAir2 on its Saar class corvettes. Currently these ships protect Israeli ...

Donald "Art of the Deal" Trump understands leverage — how to create advantage (real or perceived) and how to use it. Trump will, on occasion, bend to adversarial pressure (see Bond Markets) — until he ...