Category: Asia

A declassified look at how U.S. airmen turned ordinary cargo aircraft into deadly gunships, reshaping modern airpower through wartime improvisation.

Walz readies the Minnesota Guard amid ICE violence in Minneapolis, Trump threatens 100% tariffs on Canada, Nigeria’s military assures farmers amid ongoing chaos, and skate programs in Gaza, Uganda, and Nigeria offer youth a rare lifeline of safety and hope.

Project 100,000 lowered enlistment standards during Vietnam, pulling in vulnerable recruits and sending many into high-risk jobs where the human cost showed up in higher deaths and worse outcomes after the war.

Five Years to Freedom is a compact, must-read POW memoir that shows how Nick Rowe endured five years of Viet Cong captivity through discipline and mental control, influenced the modern SERE program, and belongs alongside Frankl and Solzhenitsyn as a study of inner freedom under coercion.

Iran crushed unrest after a currency-driven protest wave, the United States moved the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to raise deterrence, Syria’s government secured Deir Hafer near Aleppo after an SDF withdrawal, and Canada and China launched a strategic partnership to reset trade and diplomatic ties.

April 21, 1989 the US Army Special Forces lost a legend in its ranks. Communist guerrillas assassinated COL. Nick Rowe while on his way to work as a military advisor to the Philippine Army. Rowe had escaped a Viet Cong prisoner of war camp on New Year’s Eve 1968 while being taken to his execution. […]

A junior soldier’s first Al Mar purchase becomes the entry point into how Al Mar’s Special Forces ties, friendship with Nick Rowe, and SERE-driven design priorities shaped some of the most respected knives in the tactical world.

Germany’s airborne scandal, Taiwan’s major arms-driven defense buildup, and Russia’s improvised thermal concealment tactics all show how discipline, politics, and adaptation are shaping readiness in today’s high-pressure fights.

China did not need to fire a shot in Ukraine to come out ahead; it only had to wait while the West bled will and capacity and Russia slid, predictably, into Beijing’s pocket.

Major John L. Plaster’s SOG is a blunt, first-hand account of MACV-SOG’s small-team missions behind enemy lines that makes Hollywood action look fake by comparison because it’s built on real consequences, brutal odds, and men who did not get to choose how it ended.

BRICS navies are flexing off South Africa as the U.S. shifts Army forces toward the Indo-Pacific, Trump escalates rhetoric on owning Greenland for Arctic defense, and Taiwan searches for a missing F-16V while grounding its fleet for safety checks.

China is reportedly disguising road-mobile ICBM launchers as civilian construction cranes to blend into normal heavy-equipment traffic, complicate surveillance and targeting, and improve the survivability of its nuclear force.