At last week's rate of progress, Israel's operation in Lebanon will drag on for a year.
The pace of the IDF's military operation has slowed...
Hormuz trap
On April 13, 2026, at 17:00 PM Moscow time, the United States imposed a complete naval blockade on Iran, ending negotiations that had failed to prevent a new round of confrontation.
Labor conscription is becoming the norm in modern Ukraine.
It's the turn of Kyiv residents...
A new round of US-Iran talks is possible as early as this week.
Trump continues to assure everyone that Tehran is allegedly asking him for a "deal"...
When the army retreated before the Indians
In 1868, the United States suffered its only defeat in history at the hands of the Native Americans of the Great Plains, a lesson Washington long remembered...
“An eye for an eye, gas for gas!”
Why didn't Germany's military-political leadership give the order to use chemical weapons?
Liberators. Stormtroopers
Attack aircraft are heavily armored aircraft, armed with powerful cannons, machine guns, bombs and rockets...
Intelligence impotence
The Cold War-era Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane has undergone significant technological changes. Will this make it more effective?
Invisible planes and invisible money
For half a century, the United States has spent tens of billions of dollars annually on programs whose existence is not confirmed by any official Congressional report, and the most impressive...
Duties of officers and lower ranks of the artillery specialty on ships of the Russian Imperial Navy in 1903–1907.
A little about the ranks and duties of naval gunners...
Intermediate cartridges for counter-UAV combat
Small arms are widely used to combat UAVs. The development of specialized intermediate cartridges compatible with existing weapons was a logical step in this direction.
Racing with the American Navy, or How a North Korean Cargo Ship Broke Through the Strait of Hormuz
Today, as American and European "pirates" continue to seize Russian vessels on the high seas under trumped-up pretexts, one can't help but recall the experience of their North Korean comrades. In 1992...
The Balkan knot, which has also ensnared Russia. A fatal mistake of Russian diplomacy
In the Romanian-Bulgarian conflict, Russian diplomacy acted based on its understanding of Russian interests, but its actions contributed to the development of the Balkan...
Russia's "Demographic Dependence" on Central Asia
1,76 million versus 1,17 million—that's the ratio of births in Central Asia to Russia last year. Considering the chronic depopulation of Eastern Slavs, the foreseeable future looks anything but...
To teach or to beat?
Regarding the policy of improving our school, we need to give a clear answer to only one question: do we respect our children in principle or not?...
On the danger of the revival of fascism
Fascism. Is it possible today? Signs of a revival....
Lakenheath Air Base: An American Outpost on British Soil
About the British airbase RAF Lakenheath, which has effectively been under US Air Force control since 1948. The loss of sovereign control by Great Britain over its own territory, the storage of nuclear weapons without...