Russia Declared Them Unfit. Then It Sent Them Back to the Front Anyway

Russia’s war effort is increasingly exposing a brutal reality behind the front lines: wounded soldiers are being pushed back into combat before they have healed, even after serious…

Russia’s war effort is increasingly exposing a brutal reality behind the front lines: wounded soldiers are being pushed back into combat before they have healed, even after serious surgeries, disability diagnoses, or formal medical rulings declaring them temporarily unfit for service. A new investigation has documented at least 319 cases in which Russian troops with significant injuries were returned to the battlefield before completing treatment. The cases, tracked since 2022 by researchers from the Veter project, point to a pattern that appears far broader than the publicly known record. In most of the documented incidents, the return was not a personal decision but a forced one…

Russia’s Safe Zone Is Gone: Ukraine Strikes Deep in the Caspian Sea

Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign has entered a new and striking phase: the Caspian Sea is no longer beyond reach. In its latest operation, Ukrainian forces targeted a Russian…

U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy 2026: The Return of Hard Power and a New Definition of Security Threats

The new U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy for 2026 represents a fundamental shift in U.S. security policy. The United States Counterterrorism Strategy 2026 is not merely a technical…

Russia’s Hybrid Warfare and Sabotage: A Threat to Europe or an Overblown Scare?

Expert, political, and public debate regarding the real Russian threat to Euro-Atlantic civilization has been heated and ongoing since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the…

Pay 0.25% or Explain Why Not: NATO’s Ukraine Fight Is Turning Inward

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is pushing a simple but politically loaded idea: every NATO ally should dedicate 0.25% of its GDP each year to military aid for…

Ukraine’s Freya Project Aims to Deliver a Lower - Cost Ballistic Missile Shield for Europe

Ukraine is pushing beyond battlefield adaptation and into defense architecture design with the unveiling of Freya, a new ballistic missile defense concept built around a low-cost…

SIPRI: The World Is Arming at a Historic Pace, Berlin and Warsaw Buy Big

In 2025, the world spent $2.887 trillion on military equipment. This marks the eleventh consecutive year of growth in global military spending and represents an amount that…

CSG and FNSS Unveil Strategic Partnership and CFL-120 Karpat at IDEB 2026

Representatives of the CSG Group and the Turkish company FNSS Savunma Sistemleri announced today, on the first day of the IDEB 2026 trade fair in Bratislava, a strategic…

USAF Accelerates Collaborative Combat Aircraft Procurement

The United States Air Force is embarking on one of the most transformative initiatives in modern aerial warfare with its plan to procure more than 150 Collaborative Combat…

Russia Rolls Out More T-90M Tanks Despite Heavy Battlefield Losses

Uralvagonzavod has delivered a new batch of T-90M, T-72B3M, and T-80BVM main battle tanks to the Russian Army, adding more upgraded armored vehicles to Moscow’s ground forces…

Pyongyang’s Ammo Boom Could Change the Pace of the War in Ukraine

North Korea appears to be sharply expanding its military production base as it continues supplying ammunition and weapons to Russia for use in the war against Ukraine. New claims…

Ukraine Unveils Trailer-Mounted STASH Air Defense During Record Russian Aerial Assault

In the early hours of May 1, 2026, as waves of Russian Shahed drones darkened the skies over western Ukraine, a previously unknown surface-to-air missile system made its dramatic…