In 2019, reporter Lynzy Billing returned to Afghanistan to research the murders of her mother and sister nearly 30 years earlier. Instead, in the country’s remote reaches, she stumbled upon the CIA-backed Zero Units, who conducted night raids — quick, brutal operations designed to have resounding psychological impacts while ostensibly removing high-priority enemy targets. So,…
Multi-domain operations The first in the review will be the concept of multi-domain (that is, in many areas) operations. It is described in detail in a hundred-page document published in December 2018 by the US Army Training and Doctrine Command. [i] In the preface written by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of…
Important note: Image above is NOT of the USS Connecticut. It is of the USS San Francisco that rammed into an undersea mountain in 2005. Let’s get right to the point. The official American story is that the USS Connecticut rammed into an unmarked undersea mountain. Since the Navy revealed this week that the fast-attack…
All the present great powers – the US, China and Russia – are developing hypersonic weapons, which fly at speeds of at least Mach 5 or more (five times the speed of sound) but it is not only about speed. More important is the ability to maneuver at those high speeds, in order to avoid…
Over the past decade, the Republic of Turkey has made significant progress in many areas and has become a powerful regional power. This was supported by its important geographical position at the junction of world communications of the Middle East, Asia and Europe, a transit country for hydrocarbons, successes in the scientific and technical field,…
In mid-July, Japan’s Ministry of Defence issued a White Paper that attracted the close attention of officials and experts from neighbouring countries as well as the US. The document contains a number of features indicating dynamic changes in the country’s military and political planning, which, along with Washington’s incitement and the country’s engagement in regional…
