Emerging Risks

Israeli military officials told Breaking Defense the US Air Force would provide refueling services for Israeli fighters during the exercise.

archived 19 May 2022 02:52:13 UTC

The longer the Biden administration prolongs the war in Ukraine and the more it helps the Armed Forces of Ukraine achieve tactical victories on the battlefield, the higher the chances Putin will use

Unfortunately, the possibility of reaching a peaceful, diplomatic solution to the threats posed by Iran’s nuclear program looks remote.

Since Russia’s President Vladimir Putin launched his expanded invasion of Ukraine on February 24, fires at military bases and train accidents inside the Russian Federation have increased, military draft offices have been set aflame there, and draft resistance has spiked, as have cases in which soldiers in uniform are refusing to obey orders to deploy to Ukraine. Telephone bomb threats …

The long read: The horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made the whole world afraid of the atomic bomb – even those who might launch one. Today that fear has mostly passed out of living memory, and with it we may have lost a crucial safeguard

Small, fast and nimble forces have helped Ukraine batter Russia, just like Green Beret forces did against the Taliban two decades ago.

Amid concern Iran is close to a nuclear weapon, “Chariots of Fire Drill,” will simulate war on six different fronts.

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Russia has likely lost 30 percent of its ground combat forces in Ukraine, and their renewed offensive in the Donbas has lost momentum.

Defense Minister Benny Gantz warned on Tuesday that Iran is installing 1,000 advanced centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plants, and

Is it possible that Hezbollah may begin a new wave of assassinations if it fears critics against it are rising in Lebanon?

Number to have fallen ill reportedly at almost 1.5 million as country grapples with what it calls ‘fever’

Many in Europe say that they are just waking up to the threat posed by China. But if Europe is just waking up, it is still half-asleep.

And Are We Ready?

archived 16 May 2022 22:04:32 UTC

Yuri Borisov is Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister in charge of defense procurement. In a recent interview with RT (Russian state media) about Russia’s long-range precision-guided cruise missi

STAT analyzes the data to show how five key factors worked to drive U.S. Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic, yielding "five pandemics."

The legal profession, once a guardian of republican government, is now a force for social upheaval.

The apparent unveiling of this threat comes as Hezbollah has slammed the US for backing a maritime boundary agreement between Israel and Lebanon.

Russia has made new threats to use its deadly Satan-2 hypersonic nuclear missile to strike Britain in just “200 seconds” and Finland in "10 seconds”.

Vladimir Putin told the President of Finland he has 'made a mistake' by joining NATO. Foreign Minister Lavrov slammed the West's 'total hybrid war' on Russia

As Finland races to join NATO, the war in Ukraine risks spilling over into a wider European conflict.

Recent "denazification" comments posted by Oleg Morozov, a member of the Russian parliament, could further strain tensions between Russia and Europe.

The former Russian president wrote on Telegram how there would be dire global consequences to the sanctions imposed on Russia.

archived 13 May 2022 16:24:14 UTC

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Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is warning Thursday that the “pumping of Ukraine by NATO countries with weapons” brings the risk of the conflict “turning into a full-fledged nuclear war.”

Three prodemocracy activists on the run from Beijing, three wild and bizarre journeys to—and through—America

The two sides have not managed a bilateral nuclear crisis in a very long time, and one does not really wish to find out if they can easily recover their Cold War vintage crisis management skills.