Russia has formed a new long-range Far East heavy bomber division. Moscow’s Defense Ministry announced on Oct. 6 that the Tyazheloy Bombardirovochnoy Aviatsionnoy Divizii, or HBD/TBAD, would patrol Pacific (more…)
President Vladimir Putin is looking to expand Russia’s military power and restore Moscow’s global reach of the Soviet era. Moscow on Oct. 10 announced it was planning to make (more…)
By Jack Caravelli UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced her nation will begin the lengthy process of leaving the European Union no later than the end of March 2017, (more…)
By Jack Caravelli UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s mid-September decision to move forward on the development of a commercial nuclear power plant is tacit acknowledgment of her nation’s dwindling (more…)
At a late September informal meeting in Algiers the 14-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agreed to their first production cuts since 2008. The cuts will be minor, (more…)
By Dr. Jack Caravelli The United Kingdom’s June vote to leave the European Union— a process that may take up to two years — has triggered a series of (more…)
By Jack Caravelli German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande are backing a plan to create a new European military force. It would be headquartered in Brussels (more…)
By Jack Caravelli By an overwhelming 472-117 vote in its parliament, the United Kingdom this summer authorized spending for a new generation of nuclear weapons capability, dubbed the Trident (more…)
By Jack Caravelli More than five years after the start of the Syrian civil war which has taken over 400,000 lives and displaced millions more, United States policy under (more…)
