Category: World

Being a knight in the medieval period sure looks cool and all, but let’s face it, its reality could be a little less exciting.

Recent developments point to how the USS Connecticut collided with a sea mount in October. It relates to how the Navy treated her commanding officer, executive officer and Chief of the Boat.

Have you ever wondered what Oscar-Tango-Mike means? Knowing the NATO Phonetic Alphabet can answer that for you.

The threat posed by hypersonic missiles from nations like Iran, Russia and communist China has prompted a treaty of close cooperation between the Navies of the U.S., France and the UK as they each increase their naval presence and operations in the Indo-Pacific region.

President Biden and UK Defense Minister Ben Wallace are both ruling out the possibility that NATO will commit troops to repel an invasion of Ukraine by Putin and Russia.

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Taiwan has never been a participant in the U.S. Navy’s largest military exercise, the Rim of the Pacific or RIMPAC. Aggression by Communist China has prompted Congress to tell the Department of Defense to include Taiwan in the next RIMPAC as a show of solidarity with the island nation.

As the U.S. takes a step back as a global power, Russia, China, and Iran are cooking up bold global maneuvers.

Using a football as an anti-tank grenade? The US Army once attempted to use Nerf balls as anti-tank grenades. Here’s how it turned out.

When an AI-directed weapon does kill the wrong person, it will be very easy to shift the blame to the robot itself saying it got confused or mistook or misunderstood something.  The truth is though that everything that AI program does, or reacts to, or decides to do was programmed by a flawed human.

Mike Wimmer is not your ordinary 13-year-old boy. Let’s have a look into what he’s achieved at such a young age.

The flag in a half-staff or half-mast position is a way of expressing the nation’s sadness at someone’s death.