Key: On this table, figures originally given in various local coinages have all been converted to livres tournais, worth about £4 sterling; s, shilling, of which there were 12 to the pound; d, penny, ...

British military planners quickly realized that the UK would have a hard time mustering 10,000 troops to send to Eastern Europe or Ukraine. Improving that situation has, so far, proved difficult.

There was a similar fear in Norway, which also has land borders with Russia, and Sweden which doesn’t but feels itself too close to Russia. That makes the forlorn fourteen the scared seventeen. All ...

April 17, 2025: NATO countries closer to Russia spend more on defense because they are aware of the threat. That’s why these countries also spend higher percentages of GDP in aid to Ukraine. Estonia, ...

Believing America is still economically innovative and its domestic market the world's biggest, the Trump administration has declared war on Big Debt (U.S. national debt). It is simultaneously pushing ...

Russia continues to have problems with local or foreign hackers committing major crimes. For the last three years there have been massive thefts of billions of dollars from financial institutions and ...

April 13, 2025: On March 26th the Sudanese army commander landed at the Khartoum airport.

The foundation of any European peace plan for Ukraine is to have the forces to maintain and enforce it. The solution is a work in progress and no one knows how long it will take or how effective any ...

Understand the violence option means risking soldier sons' and daughters' lives in the struggle. Post-Hiroshima, obtaining or denying the valuable position risks escalation to nuclear devastation. The ...

April 8, 2025: Recently the ruling military junta was dismayed to realize that they only controlled 44 percent of the country. Year by year junta control over the country declines, with no end in ...