Nicola Minasi Abstract After almost 30 years from the Dayton Agreement of 1995, time has come to appraise the successes and failures of interventionism in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). By drawing on insights from a practitioner’s perspective, the article explores the dynamic of diplomatic action … [Read more...]
Meatgrinder: Russian Tactics in the Second Year of Its Invasion of Ukraine
Dr Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds Russian tactics are changing as lessons are learned from military failures in the war in Ukraine. Executive Summary The scale of Russian losses in 2022, combined with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation confronting NATO systems they had not … [Read more...]
Ugliest Building in the World
James Jay Carafano There are over a hundred candidates for the ugliest building in the world. Honorable mentions include the Scottish Parliament and North Korea’s Ryugyong Hotel (often called the Hotel of Doom), but if you combine history and architecture there is only one ugly to rule them … [Read more...]
Longest Serving Member of the American Armed Forces
James Jay Crafano At the end of the American Revolution, the Continental Army encamped at Newburgh, New York waiting for the last British troops to withdraw. The restive troops upset that the Continental Congress had not delivered on the bonuses promised threatened to march on Philadelphia. … [Read more...]
U.K. Royal Navy ‘Distressed and Concerned’ by Illegal Chinese Salvage of WWII Wrecks
By: John Grady An illegal Chinese salvage operation is raiding two United Kingdom World War II warship wrecks off the coast of Malaysia for scrap steel, aluminum and brass fittings, prompting a statement of concern from the Royal Navy, USNI News has learned. Chuan Hong 68 used a large dredging … [Read more...]
America’s Blueprint for Global Domination: From “Containment” to “Pre-emptive War”. The 1948 Truman Doctrine
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Introduction Today’s US-NATO sponsored wars are part of a military and foreign policy agenda extending over a period of more than half a century. In this regard, the NeoCons’ Project for the New American Century’s blueprint formulated in 2000 should be viewed as … [Read more...]
Weirdest Battle of World War II
James Jay Carafano World War II was truly a global conflict. Enemies fought everywhere from the frozen Arctic to darkest jungles in Papua New Guinea. They fought on land, air, on, over, and below the sea, and even into the stratosphere. There were battles bloody big and small—and weird. Here is … [Read more...]
Most Ridiculous “Challenge” and “Pass” in Military History
When a time honored security safeguard went south. James Jay Carafano “Who goes there?” “Be challenged and recognized?” Such, or similar fateful words have been used through history to keep an enemy from slipping behind friendly lines. The more appropriate military jargon is … [Read more...]
RUSSIA – UKRAINE UPDATE
RUSSIA - UKRAINE UPDATE1 MG Paul E. VALLELY Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday that a new foreign policy strategy adopted by President Vladimir Putin identifies the West as posing an “existential” threat to Moscow. The announcement comes as Russia's relationship with Western … [Read more...]
PSYCHO-HISTORICAL ORIGIN OF CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN GEOPOLITICS
Nicolae PARCEVSCHII Horaţiu-Nicolae GUŢĂ I. REFLECTIONS OF GINGHIS-HAN'S GEOPOLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA AND CURRENT RUSSIAN TELUROCRATIC IMPERIALISM Abstract. February 24, 2022 has completely changed the geopolitical and historical paradigm on a global level. On the geopolitical front … [Read more...]