Military

Russia has a perverse reason for losing thousands of soldiers trying to take a single small city in Donbas. So what’s Putin after? Simple: bleeding Ukraine. Now, Bakhmut is a road and rail junction that, if taken, would help Russian forces advance to the north and south towards the Donetsk…

I have moments when I prefer peace and quiet. Right now is one of those moments. Ten minutes ago, I was listening to the radio, enjoying holiday tunes. The urge for silence yelled loudly in my head. And I listened. Now, the constant ringing in my ears from tinnitus is…

DeLeo Barner was tried decades after committing military identity theft. — Soldier DeLeo Barner claimed that he enlisted in the Army in 1981 to flee the pervasive violence plaguing the city of St. Louis, Missouri, in the early 1980s when he was growing up there. Barner stated that during that time, his primarily black area was plagued with police shootings and…

Machine guns only — Tanks emerged from the hazy trenches of World War I as the world’s most desirable weapons platform. After the end of the Great War, nations scrambled to design and outfit their own tanks. Interwar tanks were small, crude, and unreliable, with the best example perhaps being the Renault FT. Early…

Winning at any cost — Let me paint a picture for you. You’re a soldier in a filthy trench, poorly armed and poorly equipped. It doesn’t matter what side you’re on, where or when you are — the outcome will be the same. You’ve been given orders to charge, so you and thousands, perhaps tens…