Cold War & Proxy Wars

17+ hour, 39+ min ago   (913+ words) USS Jimmy Carter Seawolf-Class. Image Credit: Creative Commons. The USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) is the last of three Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarines the US Navy commissioned between 1997 and 2005. As originally designed, the Seawolf represented the pinnacle of stealth and lethality…...

2+ hour, 12+ min ago   (359+ words) Berlin ― German interior minister Alexander Dobrindt warned on Monday that Germany faced a “shadow war” more far-reaching than the Cold War and said the threat underscored the need to strengthen the country’s BfV domestic intelligence agency. “The shadow war we…...

3+ hour, 30+ min ago   (110+ words) Baltimore Sun Maryland’s best school district: Success is about ‘leadership,’ not just funding 5 things we learned from Ravens’ 30-23 overtime win over Falcons An FBI raid exposes Baltimore’s nonprofit oversight problem | EDITORIAL The Baltimore Sun’s Ravens report card: Grades for 30-23 win…...

10+ hour, 53+ min ago   (372+ words) BERLIN, Oct 12 (Reuters) – German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt warned on Monday that Germany faced a “shadow war” more far-reaching than the Cold War, and said the threat underscored the need to strengthen the country’s ​BfV domestic intelligence agency. “The shadow…...

4+ hour, 29+ min ago   (608+ words) TEHRAN — Philippe Sands, a professor of law at University College London and human rights lawyer at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, has criticized Germany’s “silence on crimes committed on the territory of Palestine, in Gaza and in…...

3+ hour, 24+ min ago   (158+ words) Explosions were heard on Monday in the Koya district, east of Hewlêr in Southern Kurdistan, following an attack by two unidentified drones targeting Azadi Camp, which is affiliated with the Iranian Kurdish opposition, according to Roj News Agency. The agency…...

17+ hour, 39+ min ago   (856+ words) China already has a Navy bigger than America. And shipyard capacity is the reason why. At a time when the United States Navy is struggling through a shipbuilding crisis, when the Pentagon is convinced that China could invade Taiwan and…...

17+ hour, 39+ min ago   (672+ words) The Navy is retiring the last four Ohio-class SSGN submarines capable of launching Tomahawk cruise missiles. This will leave the Navy short of 616 long-range submarine-launched missiles that can hit targets on land and at sea. The Ohio-class dates back to…...

17+ hour, 39+ min ago   (569+ words) Capable of flying faster than Mach 3, or three times the speed of sound at an altitude of 85,000 feet, the Blackbird was one of the first supersonic jets to make extensive use of titanium and titanium alloys. Then, a rather exotic…...

11+ hour, 14+ min ago   (245+ words) BERLIN, Oct 12 (Reuters) – German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt warned on Monday that a “shadow war” facing Germany is more far reaching than ​the Cold War was, arguing that the ‌threat underscores the need to strengthen the country’s BfV domestic intelligence…...