Six of these ships are to be built, with four completed and two more building with delivery dates in 2026 and 2027, The South Korean Navy currently has 160 ships with a total displacement of 233,000 ...

July 4, 2025: Twenty-one years China put into service the first of 82 Type 22 Fast Attack Missile Boats or FAMB. These catamaran type craft displace 200 tons empty and 220 tons fully loaded with ...

The last war that U.S. forces were involved with ended in 2021. That was after American forces had spent two decades seeking to pacify Afghanistan. In 2017 most American forces left Iraq, leaving ...

Bad recent history: When former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko fell in 1997, war erupted throughout Congo. A series of peace agreements -- U.N. blessed -- purportedly ended the Great Congo War in 2003.

1. Russia has traditionally had a massive Vodka abuse problem, but the figures below seem very high indeed: 60% of working men are unproductive? If so, why hasn't the Russian economy collapsed ? "Out ...

This all began at the end of the 1990s when Cuba sought new partners to replace the defunct Soviet state. The Russians were once a valued communist ally. That is now over, never to return. Rescue came ...

Poland also contributed in terms of spending more on defense, by spending 4.5 percent of GDP on defense. The goal is five percent, which will take a few more years to achieve. Poland is spending ...

In response to the Russian partisan attacks, the Russian army deployed over 30,000 soldiers in border areas where the partisans, both Russian and Ukrainian, were operating. The partisans were numerous ...

There are also a large number of volunteers serving as support personnel or assisting the Ukrainians to rebuild as well as helping Ukrainian civilians made homeless by the fighting. Many of these ...

The carrier Truman was called in to deliver a knockout against the Houthis and did so with the largest ever number of airstrikes against a single target, the Houthis in Yemen. It worked and in early ...

June 22, 2025: The Central African Republic/CAR is suffering an unprecedented outbreak of fighting between nomadic herders and farmers who have long tilled the land and produced the food that feeds ...