At the Red Sea's southern end, between Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea) and western Yemen, lies the Bab al-Mandab (Gateway of Anguish). This narrow waterway links the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean's Gulf of ...

What we now call Iran has had several names over the past five thousand years. The name Iran was first used in the fourth century BC as the Avestan word airyānąm. The Greeks first used the name Persia ...

Al Qaeda is a major Islamic terrorist group that still survives in small numbers. It has survived mainly because it relies on the internet. Islamic terrorists became a major problem in 1979, when the ...

September 15, 2026: In the last twelve years, U.S. counterterrorism operations have evolved significantly, focusing on both domestic and international threats, including drone strikes and intelligence ...

Most designers take for granted that a game must be fun and make a conscious effort to ensure it is. Unfortunately, that fun often gets lost somewhere between caffeine/pepperoni fueled ideas and the ...

First came Facebook, then came Twitter, and finally, AI has arrived. They have all caused a decline in our business, but AI may be the deadliest innovation. We are currently in survival mode. Our ...

A new ground-based EW (electronic warfare) system, Russia’s latest attempt to disrupt Starlink satellite communications, has each VKG unit allegedly capable of jamming up to eight transmission bands ...

Working together during a conference at Notre Dame in 2021, the editors selected twelve essays on military conflicts between 191 ...

September 13, 2026: Two months ago, Ukraine released a video showing a naval surface drone landing at a beach, dropping its ramp, and releasing a ground drone, which moved inland and opened fire with ...