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Stalingrad
Seventy-five years ago this month, the Soviet Red Army surrounded — and would soon destroy — a huge invading German army at Stalingrad on the Volga River. Nearly 300,000 of Germany’s best soldiers...
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Hail Columbia!
Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue way back in 1492. This delightful ditty firmly places the date of the discovery of the New World into the minds of saavy kids everywhere in Great Satan.Later...
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Nuclear Nippon And SoKo?
Just when cautious optimism was beginning to resurface that the North Korea crisis might be fading slightly, Pyongyang took yet more actions to alarm the international community. Kim Jong-un’s...
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Never Forget
If there’s one lesson the nation should have learned from that awful day 16 years ago, it’s that the United States cannot afford to ignore a rabidly anti-American terrorist group that has established a...
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Fall Weiß
At dawn on September 1st, Luftwaffe struck at Polish airfields destroying most of the planes before they could get off the ground. With control of the skies assured wicked Wehrmacht began the...
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Abu Mazen's Last Stand?
Following Israel’s July 16 decision to install metal detectors at the entrance to the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, the Palestinian leadership announced the suspension of security coordination with...
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Options On Iran
In the Middle East, the Administration has signaled its preference to strengthen relationships with the Sunni Gulf states by way of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. By strengthening...
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Russian Navy Day
On July 30, the Russian Federation celebrated Navy Day with some 100 vessels across its ports in St. Petersburg; Vladivostok; Novorossiysk; Baltiysk, Kaliningrad; Tartus, Syria; and illegally-occupied...
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Navy Railguns
The Navy’s much-hyped electromagnetic railgun has come a long way. Ever since the futuristic cannon enjoyed a public debut at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division in Virginia in November...
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Persian Hegemon
Those of us above the age of consent may very well remember eons back when anyone chatting about the "Shia Crescent" were laughed out of the room.Except of course, nobody's laughing now...Iran has been...
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Ploesti
On (almost) this day in 1943, Operation Tidal Wave begins! Nearly 180 Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers embark on a lengthy mission to destroy oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania. The mission has been...
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Landmark!
It's a landmark!The fall of the primary ISIS stronghold in Mosul in Iraq represents a turning point strategically, politically, ideologically and even religiously in the Muslim world. Mosul has been...
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Russia's New Big Warships
Russia is likely to build larger surface combatants in the coming years—with larger corvettes and frigates in the works. However, Moscow is not likely to spend large sums of money to build massive new...
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Prokhorovka
"It. Must. Not. Fail"Elefants, Tigers and Panthers, oh my! By spring time 1943 das Dritten Reiches was in a hexen kesselof scary dimensions. In the last year Great Satan and Great Britain had driven...
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The Syrian Ceasefire
What does the ceasefire in Syria mean on the ground? Which areas will observe it and which areas will not?In theory, the ceasefire should apply to all of Syria. However, Russia has insisted that, along...
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Unhappy Adversaries
When your adversaries are unhappy - rejoice!There was no pressing reason for Xi Jinping to stop off in Moscow for a summit meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin. There have already been two...
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Born On The 4th Of July
4 July 1776 fired off a crazy rocking rolling ride that hasn't stopped 'stirring things up' on a global scale.Advancing arrogance into an art form with a remarkable relentless risque commitment to...
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Civil War In The Middle East
For Iran, Syria is the key, the central theatre of a Shiite-Sunni war for regional hegemony. Iran (which is non-Arab) leads the Shiite side, attended by its Arab auxiliaries — Hezbollah in Lebanon, the...
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MiG 35
The MiG-35, designed to replace MiG-29s rounding out their fourth decade in service, will be featured at the MAKS international airshow near Moscow in July as engineers finalize testing on the...
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Barbarossa!
"The entire World will hold it's breath!"Unternehmen Barbarossa's 76th Anniversary.Just after 0300 hours local time this very day in 1941 - a 3 mile wide strip of territory stretching the length of...
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