The U.S. Navy is having problems deciding what types of weapons their Virginia class SSN attack submarines should carry. The most favored weapons are launched from torpedo tubes. It’s not just ...

December 23, 2024: Ukrainian special operations detachments have operated in places like Africa and the Middle East to injure the Russians and find out what they are up to. These Ukrainian forces ...

Such attempts would not be impossible as Iran has small submarines and speed boats along with sailors willing to carry out suicidal missions to deliver the mines. Even that may not be sufficient, as ...

December 22, 2024: Military leaders, when faced with peacetime decisions on how to fight the next war. It’s common to seek answers in the last war they or others fought. For many nations, that is the ...

December 20, 2024: In early December Abu Mohammed al-Golani led a force of several thousand armed men and quickly conquered all of Syria in a few days. Bashar al-Assad, the former ruler of Syria ...

Israel also went into Lebanon to complete the destruction of Hezbollah. After this Hezbollah will continue to exist, but as a shadow of its former self. It could take this Hezbollah remnant a decade ...

December 21, 2024: Hezbollah has had a bad year. Israel destroyed most of its leadership with a brilliant special operations plan. Hezbollah’s missile and rocket attacks on Israel from Lebanon ...

December 19, 2024: For operations in the Pacific around the Okinawa Islands, the Navy must use shallow draft vessels to move around in these waters carrying suppliers and equipment, supply vessels.

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, ...

Operating considerably beyond existing doctrine, the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized) (3ID [M]) proved that a lethal, flexible, and disciplined mechanized force could conduct continuous offensive ...

The Battle of Midway, the second carrier battle of 1942, was the most decisive of the war. But not for the reasons the Japanese thought it would be, even if they had captured the place. In fact, the ...

December 19, 2024: Russian troops in Ukraine have been seen using Chinese 4x4 Tiger/ZFB-05 vehicles. These have a roof opening for one of the crew to use a machine gun up there. These vehicles were ...