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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Russian Armed Forces
Russia has been invaded once again. But this time, the intruder is the novel coronavirus responsible for the global COVID-19 pandemic, which has...
Sea (Maritime, Naval Operations)
Russian Naval Infantry Stretches Its Muscles in the Baltics
On September 14, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on a landing exercise in Kaliningrad Oblast—Russia’s Baltic exclave, sandwiched between...
Air Warfare
Russia Flexes Muscles of Airborne Forces
The Russian Airborne Troops ( Vozdushno-Desantnye Voyska —VDV) and Military Transport Aviation ( Voyenno-Transportnoy Aviatsii —VTA) carried out a...
Russia
Russian ICBMs: An Aging but Mixed Arsenal
Undeniably, Russia has fewer deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) today than the Soviet Union fielded during the Cold War (at its peak,...
Military Strategy
Russian Amphibious Capabilities
Kontraktniki and Rust Buckets (Part One) The year 2017 will probably finally see the new landing ship Ivan Gren handed over to the Russian Navy. This...
Iranian Cyber Operations
By Michael Groen • RealClearDefense
Reflecting on an Epic Horse Campaign in the Mountains of Afghanistan
By Brian Glyn Williams • RealClearDefense
The Godfather of American Foreign Policy Realism Speaks to Today’s World
By Francis P. Sempa • RealClearDefense
In Pursuit of Nuclear Abolition
By Peter Huessy • RealClearDefense
Innovation Alone Won’t Prepare the U.S. for the Future Battlefield
By Joshua Segal • RealClearDefense
26th MEU – U.S. Needs Crisis Response MAGTF
By Marine Corps Compass Points
The Influence of History on a Sea Power
By CDR Salamander
Navy Civilianizes Six Former Flag Billets, Reduces Six to Captains
By Mongilio, USNI N.
Raytheon's $8B Contract for Strategic Comms Terminal Modernization
By M+A El
America’s Maritime Moment Will Not Wait
By CDR Salamander
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