We've hooked up some machinery,” said Tommy, “that amounts to a mechanical translator… When you're ready to talk to the skipper of the other ship, sir, I ...

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One of the Russian military’s most important developments in 2024-2025 was the establishment of the Rubicon Center for ...

The Baltic states are stalwart NATO members today, but their membership was not assured from the moment they restored their ...

Field research ― the collection of information outside a lab or workplace setting ― requires skills and knowledge not typically taught in the classroom. Fieldwork demands exploratory inquisitiveness, ...

Over the last decade, the U.S., UK Israel and other states have begun to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for military operations and for targeted killings in places like Pakistan, Yemen and ...

The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased. Once, war was a temporary state of affairs—a violent but brief interlude between times of ...

Rob Lee and Dmytro Putiata break down the war in Ukraine as it stands right now: a front line that has stabilized but stays fragile, and where Russia is putting its weight next. In Part 1 they get ...

From the “Great Arab Revolt” against Ottoman rule in World War I to the upheavals of the Arab Spring, this text analyzes a century of modern Arab history through the lens of three intertwined notions: ...

China’s latest Five-Year Plan signals that it has become more pessimistic about the global environment, seeing it as uncertain and unstable. However, the Chinese Communist Party sees opportunity in ...

China has been a major investor and trade partner in Central Asia for some twenty-five years. For the first half of those years, Beijing was focused on oil and natural gas pipelines and roads and ...

The situation in Mozambique remains tense amidst an ongoing political crisis following last October’s contested election results. For months, violence and unrest have escalated as opposition-led ...