Several nations subsequently adopted the use of Bitcoin. For example, in 2022 the Central African Republic or CAR was the first African country to adopt cryptocurrency as its official currency. North ...

The historical record is definitive. Beijing's "Trojan stuff" can spy on you. Then — at a Pearl Harbor moment — the Trojan Horse stuff shutdowns or co-opts the computers and communications of a ...

The Saudis are also new at this international diplomacy, and do not have a legacy of past failures or disappointments. That will change as long as the Saudis remain active in regional and global ...

Donald "Art of the Deal" Trump understands leverage — how to create advantage (real or perceived) and how to use it. Trump will, on occasion, bend to adversarial pressure (see Bond Markets) — until he ...

Another bit of good advice was to make a clean break after a war. The Americans still have over 20,000 troops in South Korea 72 years after the war ended. Over the last few decades South Korea has ...

ARAMCO persisted through the chaos of World War II, through the nuclear-clouded Cold War, through wretched decades of Communist, Islamo-fascist, anti-Semitic and anti-American violence. And the ...

May 25, 2025: Roscosmos, the post-Soviet Russian space program, has proved to be less effective than its Soviet predecessor. The primary problems are incompetence and corruption. One glaring example ...

The limpet mines recently used against Russian ships do not linger. If any fall or are shaken off a ship hull, it is unlikely to do any damage in the future. The amount of explosives is small and the ...

Russia has more than twice as many police per million population than the United States. Even when these police forces are at full strength, their numbers are often inadequate to handle many criminal ...

May 23, 2025: Since the end of the Cold War in 1991, the U.S. Coast Guard has ceased arming its larger cutter type ships with missiles. In the 21 st Century the growing threat of the Chinese navy and ...

May 22, 2025: The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine was a wakeup call for Germany. The German military, known as the Bundeswehr, was upgraded and expanded. Within two years Germany had, for the first ...