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______ McGyver On January 24, China's Ministry of Defence announced of investigation regarding General Zhang Youxia (China's senior most general and the figure second only to President Xi Jinping in the China's top military decision-making body), Central Military Comission (CMC), the Chinese Communist Party body that controls China’s armed forces. The 75-year-old General was due to retire in 2022, but Xi kept him on the Central Military Commission (CMC), the military’s top le

The typical battleship emerged in an era when naval power was defined by the capability to lob heavy projectiles over long distances and also ensure own survival in the process. For decades, the battleship reined the surface combatant hierarchy, mounting the huge guns and the thickest of armor, designed to engage enemy fleets in conclusive sea shootouts. By the late interwar period and into World War II, this concept had reached its zenith. The US Navy typified the idea of th

In the early hours of January 3, 2026, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were captured by a brilliant US Delta Force raid in Caracas. They were subsequently transported to the mainland USA and taken into federal custody. This was a classic textbook Special Forces operation - executed through enviable US military professional excellence, featuring lightning speed and surgical precision.  The country is likely to be run according to US guidelines thr

Russia and China are apparently heading towards ever-deepening relationship of mutual interest. Recent leaked secret documents attained by the Black Moon hacktivist group reveal alleged Russian arming and training of Chinese forces for potential Taiwan operations. The 800-page classified document is authenticated by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).   According to the documents, Russia is to supply China with necessary military equipment to arm and train a complete

Photo Courtesy: "How Imminent Is A Potential Sino-Taiwanese Conflict?" US General Douglas McArthur once labeled Taiwan “an unsinkable aircraft carrier” – an island fortress, meant as a bulwark for the US Island Chain Strategy against China and the erstwhile Soviet Union in the West Pacific. China always considered Taiwan as a breakaway province, which, if controlled by China, would nullify historic US influence over the region through it. It would host Chinese bases into the

In the early years of the Cold War, nuclear-tipped air-to-air missiles were comprehended as an effective way to destroy enemy bomber formations. Both the U.S. and the erstwhile Soviet Union developed weapons like that. Some Soviet-era air-to-air missiles were designed with dual conventional and nuclear warhead capabilities in line with Cold War doctrines. However, Russia never officially accepted the existence of nuclear warheads for air-to-air missiles. The U.S. Air Force al

The Rakhaine State in Myanmar bears varied strategic importance to Bangladesh, regional and the global powers. The Rohingyas are an indigenous Muslim minority from Rakhine. Roughly 3.5 million Rohingyas are dispersed worldwide. Before August 2017, the majority of the Rohingyas in Myanmar resided in Rakhine State, where they accounted for nearly a third of the population. Ethnically, linguistically, and religiously, they diverge from Myanmar's dominant Buddhist population. Den

Minilateralism may be defined as voluntary, non-binding, consensus-based informal and more targeted issue-specific partnerships among nations with shared interests and security concerns. Designed to temporarily address any specific threat, contingency or security issues, such collaborations may encompass numerous fields of international cooperation like security, climate change, economy, trade, connectivity, terrorism, natural disasters and other humanitarian aspects. Despite

Military pilots have used aircrafts to defect to other countries ever since they were invented. Upon Russia's “Special Operation” in Ukraine, the Ukrainian military pledged prizes to Russian military pilots defecting Russia and handover their aircraft to Ukraine. No known incident Russian bait-taking is available and the prospect of defection isn’t as positive as it was initially expected. Multiple pilots have defected throughout Russian (or, rather, Soviet/ USSR) history – f

F-117 NIGHTHAWK Hero of the first Gulf War (1990/91) but, shot down on 27 March 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the World’s First Operational Stealth Aircraft, the F-117 Nighthawk was developed in response to the urgent US national requirement for a jet fighter that could operate completely undetected by the enemy. By the Skunk Works style, it was indeed developed rapidly and with complete secrecy. It was officially retired in 2008. According to “ The Aviationist

Why is Rakhine so contested?  Because Rakhine holds truly a critical position in Myanmar and has a strategic standpoint equally for China and India. For last couple of decades, China has been highly instrumental in investing significantly in Myanmar.  The China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) aims to provide China comfortable entree to the Bay of Bengal (BoB) by linking Kunming in Yunnan in China to the erstwhile minor port town Kyaukphyu in Rakhaine through both land route

Copyright by Wayne Avellanet 2024 A Flying Saucer, or flying disc, is an ostensibly disc-shaped Unidentified Flying Object (UFO). Described over the ages by numerous stories, stories and wall arts, UFOs or flying saucers always created a stark image of a disc shaped object piercing through the horizon with unbelievable speed and maneuverability. The well-conceived flying machine was thought to carry extra-terrestrial beings. However, despite many encounters and even claimed

Spherical Tank (Kugelpanzer) Warfare frequently drives innovation, of which all may not always work out. Bizarre tank prototypes for tanks are not unusual. At the beginning of the 20th century, futurists and engineers were hard at work thinking about the shape a fighting machine ought to take. Even the engineers settled on a shape later known as "tank" in the 1940s. Numerous exceptionally unconventional tank design solutions came up with the potential future belligerents. Thi

Asian giants India and China, world’s two most populous countries, share a long border of 3488 kilometers and a long history of border disputes. Sino‐Indian relations remain strained by their territorial disputes throughout the last decades. The countries continuously vie for dominance along their bordering landmass - resulting in occasional armed clashes, and also across the vast swaths of the Indian Ocean and towards the Pacific. The dynamism of Sino-Indian relations is an

The  VA-111  Shkval  and its offsprings are super-cavitating torpedoes formerly developed by the Former Soviet Union (FSU). They are allegedly capable of speeds in exceeding 200 knots (370 km/h or 230 miles/h). The  Shkval  rocket torpedo has a remarkable character. Its unbelievable speed, innovative design and strident appearances draw attention. Designed to equip Russian submarines, it is unlike anything in Western service. And Iran allegedly possesses this torpedo. Shkval