Hamas seen preparing for next war in Gaza, West Bank
Israeli intelligence has reported evidence of ‘high motivation’ by Hamas to prepare attacks against Israel both from Gaza and the West Bank. SUBSCRIBE l LOGIN (more…)
Gulf states using arms shopping list to wield policy influence
1,200 companies from 56 countries were on hand in February for the International Defense Exhibition in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates selling everything from combat drones to satellites. SUBSCRIBE (more…)
Beijing reports many Burma refugees are returning Chinese illegals
The Chinese government has confirmed that since mid-February, more than 60,000 Burmese refugees have crossed the border into China to escape intense firefights between the Burmese government forces and (more…)
PLA editorial hits U.S.-Japan-S. Korea culture assault on its forces
There have been far too many artists and novelists in the PLA who glorify the feminine, shallow, and soft sides of military life, according to the PLA Daily, the (more…)
Turkey official uses ‘caliphate’ in tweet about Erdogan’s ambitions
Since taking power in Turkey in 2001, the AKP party under leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has steadily evolved from a traditional (for Turkey) secularist party to one espousing an (more…)
Pentagon to monitor increasingly strategic Arctic from space
The North Pole is emerging as a geopolitical hot zone. So much so that the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is now focusing on the strategic military and energy (more…)
Turkey’s close strategic ties with NATO becoming a distant memory
As the only Muslim nation in NATO, Turkey has historically been a staunch ally of the West during the Cold War and thereafter. Everything changed with the rise of (more…)
Russia’s Northern Fleet on high alert for massive arctic exercise
On March 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin, issued a military order to 38,000 troops to launch a massive arctic exercise. SUBSCRIBE l LOGIN (more…)
Major Nile dam generating tension among Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia
In recent years proposals to build a major dam on the Nile River has generated heated tensions among the primary nations affected: Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia. SUBSCRIBE l LOGIN (more…)