The Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary mobile base USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4) returns to Naval Station Norfolk, ...

April 21, 2025: Total worldwide defense spending for 2024 was $2.46 trillion. Ominously, the annual growth of defense spending is accelerating. Spending was up 7.4 percent on 2024, 6.5 percent in 2023 ...

Our murky, blood-soaked moment in time demands a new look at geopolitics -- specifically, what constitutes a strategically valuable position that in human terms is worth expending immense wealth ...

April 18, 2025: The Arabian Peninsula, home of several wealthy Arab kingdoms that prosper on huge pools of petroleum underneath the desert sands. The only area with no oil is Yemen in the fertile ...

April 20, 2025: Since August 2024, Russian efforts to expel Ukrainian forces from Kursk province made steady progress. Russia was so desperate that they hired 15,000 North Korean troops. The Koreans ...

April 20, 2025: In February there was a series of Palestinian bombings and attempted bombings directed at Israeli transportation systems, namely the buses that carry Israelis and Palestinians ...

During the hard winter of 1786-1787, some small holders in rural far western Massachusetts became so disaffected with the state government that they staged an impromptu insurrection, known to history ...

Key: On this table, figures originally given in various local coinages have all been converted to livres tournais, worth about £4 sterling; s, shilling, of which there were 12 to the pound; d, penny, ...