The German army is shaken by scandals. It turned out that the letters of the soldiers who serve in Afghanistan are revealed. That one of the contingent's servicemen was accidentally killed by comrades who played ...

Napoleon Bonaparte said: "If the goal is well known, then it will not be difficult to find the means to achieve it." Voluntarism of the current supreme commander Nicolas Sarkozy makes ...

Large-scale reforms and downsizing of the armed forces are taking place not only in Russia. In a number of EU countries, military transformations are being carried out, the number of armed forces is decreasing, military is being closed ...

Vietnam’s military budget in 2011 will increase to 52 trillion Vietnamese dongs (2,6 billion dollars), Defense Minister Fung Quang Thanh said during a speech at the 11-th Congress of the Vietnamese Party of Vietnam ...

Ukrainian nationalists are people who are largely disadvantaged. The absolute majority of historical dates in their version of the story are tragic and are only suitable for complaints. Therefore, they, Ukrainian ...

23% of US graduates can not score the minimum passing score on the exam to join the ranks of the armed forces. The US military is sounding the alarm. It turned out that the intellectual level of young ...

Famous for its high combat qualities, the German army is being reformed. This is the largest military reform of the German armed forces in half a century. It was decided to stop the call, roll up the general military ...

The military potential of Asian countries is increasing year by year. The constant hostility of Asian countries such as China, Taiwan, Vietnam, South and North Korea makes them develop and improve ...

The situation in the army is close to a catastrophe. The Armed Forces of Ukraine today are no longer able to perform even the task of peacetime - combat duty, not to mention the localization of conflicts. Officer ...

The formation of the Israel Defense Forces took place not only on the battlefields. In its original history there are many interesting facts - from underground workshops for the manufacture of weapons, posting ...

Service in the Canadian army is significantly different from service in the Russian armed forces. Moreover, these differences are not only formally significant, but in their degree are extremely ...

France today sees no serious military threat from itself. The state sets a realistic task for its armed forces - lightning-fast response and ...

Two years ago, Iraq ordered 140 main battle tanks M1A1 Abrams-SA, as well as over one hundred support vehicles (for maintenance and transportation, such as 35 tank transporters). Request...

America is living in debt; at present, the size of its public debt is approaching 14 trillion. dollars. Its increase from September 28 2007 year is about 4,1 billion dollars a day ....

Relations between the army and non-state armed groups in the XXI century. A typical feature of wars and military conflicts of the beginning of the XXI century is the loss by the government of a monopoly on ...

Raising the question of how the text of the military oath in Russia was transformed, it would be natural to compare the text, at least of the last edition, with the text of the oath in the armies of foreign states ....

The Ground Forces (SV), whose day Ukraine annually celebrates December 12, rightfully form the basis of the combat power of the national Armed Forces. This is quite natural for the continental power, ...

The financial crisis can significantly affect US military construction. Oceans protect the United States from external invasion, but they also create the problem of distance. Most potential theaters for the US Armed Forces ...

Last year, the PLA conducted the largest maneuvers in its history. The exercises with the telling name “Big Step-2009” involved 50 thousand troops, four divisions with equipment made ...

“The army of Nagorno-Karabakh,” Lt.-General Movses Hakobyan told me, “is a unique military structure. It differs from all others primarily in the way of recruiting the armed forces "....

The DPRK army has a numerical superiority, but to a large extent it is equipped with outdated Soviet-made weapons. The US and South Korean navies are conducting joint ...

A number of American think tanks continue research ordered by the Pentagon, the main purpose of which is to work out the optimal structure of the armed forces that can solve ...

Karl-Theodore zu Guttenberg, the German defense minister, said that the country was suspending the military conscription and switching to voluntary army service. "Formally, Germany will have a draft ...

The model of the "people's army" of David Ben-Gurion, in accordance with which the IDF was created, has always played a central role in the state and Israeli society. Defensive Concept ...