A series of blasts at airbases deep inside Russia on June 1, 2025, came as a rude awakening to Moscow’s military strategists. The Ukrainian strike at the heart Russia’s strategic bombing capability could also upend the traditional rules of war: It provides smaller military a blueprint for countering a larger nation’s ability to launch airstrikes from deep behind the front lines.
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Russia has quietly redeployed its Tu-160 strategic bombers to Anadyr airbase in the country’s far east, just 500 kilometers from the U.S. state of Alaska — a move analysts call a paradoxical attempt to protect its aircraft from Ukrainian drone attacks by bringing them closer to its principal geopolitical adversary.
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by Michael Fredholm, Association of Former Intelligence Officers
In 1946, Sweden had not yet chosen sides in the emerging Cold War. Leading members of the Swedish Social Democrat government, primarily the powerful Foreign Minister Östen Undén, distrusted the Western democracies and regarded the Soviet Union as a viable protector.
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As satellite images reveal China’s ambitious construction of the world’s largest underground military command center near Beijing, global tensions escalate, prompting experts to scrutinize the implications of this unprecedented development for international security dynamics.
By Hina Dinoo May 3, 2025
Continue reading “China Unveils Its Military Mega-Project: Satellite Images Reveal Construction of the Largest Military Hub on Earth Spanning Over 1,000 Acres”
After a decade-long hunt, America’s most wanted man was killed in a daring raid deep inside Pakistan.
On a moonless night in early May 2011, two Black Hawk helicopters slipped silently across the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan. Aboard them were members of SEAL Team 6, America’s most elite special operations unit. Their mission: to find and kill Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted terrorist, hidden in a compound deep inside the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.
On April 14, 2025, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) intercepted a formation of six Russian military aircraft operating within the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), approximately 250 nautical miles (about 463 kilometers) from Shemya Island in the western Aleutians. The event, officially reported by the U.S. Department of Defense on April 19, 2025, involved the deployment of U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II fighter aircraft to intercept and shadow the Russian formation over the Bering Sea, a strategically significant body of water that lies between eastern Russia and western Alaska, connecting the Arctic Ocean with the North Pacific.
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