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Special Operations: A Decade of CIA Operations in Ukraine
WEBMar 9, 2024 · Both the FSB and SVR regularly bump into CIA operations inside and outside Russia. CIA operations inside Ukraine and Russia increased after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. This was particularly the case with joint Ukrainian-CIA operations which became more extensive and intense. The CIA had helped Ukraine prepare for this in several ways.
Wars Around The World Headlines - StrategyPage
WEBKOREA: North Korea and Russia Losers Alliance. LIBYA: July Update. CHINA: July 2024 Update. CONGO: July 2024 Update. SOMALIA: July 2024 Update. CENTRAL ASIA: July 2024 Update. IRAQ: July 2024 Update. KOREA: South Korea and Japan Sanction North Korea. IRAN: Iran Struggles to Replace Raisi.
How To Make War Headlines - StrategyPage
WEBHow To Make War Headlines. Make sure you spread the word about us. Two ways to do that are to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Subscribe to our daily newsletter. We’ll send the news to your email box, and you don’t have to come to the site unless you want to read columns or see photos. You can contribute to the health of ...
Air Defense: Stinger Evolves Into A Winner - StrategyPage
WEBMarch 17, 2022: In 1981 the U.S. introduced the Stinger portable anti-aircraft missile to replace the 1960s era Redeye. The 14.3 kg Stinger fired its 10.1 kg missile out to 8,000 meters and was more accurate and resistant to countermeasures. Stinger had a 3 kg (6.6 pound) warhead. Stinger has been continuously upgraded since it first appeared ...
Murphy's Law: The Unexpected Case Against Caseless
WEBJune 11, 2021: For about a decade the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Army have been seeking caseless ammunition or polymer (instead of brass) cased ammunition that would work reliably in combat and be much (30-37 percent) lighter than conventional 5.56mm ammo using a brass case. A popular caseless variant was CTA (Cased Telescoped ammunition) in ...
Artillery: A Very Long Range 155mm Guided Shell - StrategyPage
WEBApril 6, 2023: The U.S. Army ERCA (Extended Range Cannon Artillery) has overcome reliability problems with the new cannon artillery itself and recently successfully fired the new BAE SCALRP (Sub-Caliber Artillery Long-Range Projectile) guided 155mm shell at a target 110 kilometers away. The current Excalibur guided shell has a max range of 38 kilometers and unguided shells have a range of 25 ...
Infantry: Russia’s Foreign Legion - StrategyPage
WEBFeb 26, 2024 · Infantry: Russia’s Foreign Legion. February 26, 2024: Russia was unable to recruit, mobilize or conscript enough Russians to fight in Ukraine. Even before the end of 2023, Russia sought ways to deal with this problem. One solution was recruiting 15,000 Nepalese men to fight in Ukraine. The Nepalese Russia recruited were not from the Gurkha ...
Artillery: Israel Radically Upgrades - StrategyPage
WEBAug 2, 2021 · In 2016 Israel introduced the locally developed EXTRA (EXTended Range Artillery) GPS guided rocket. This is a 570 kg (1,254 pounds) 306mm weapon that has a max range of 150 kilometers. There is a ship-launched (Trigon) version of this in service and an air-launched (Rampage) version that enters service in 2019.
The Contemporary Operational Environment (COE) - StrategyPage
WEBThe DoD officially defines an operational environment as “a composite of the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of military forces and bear on the decisions of the unit commander” (Joint Pub 1-02). The contemporary operational environment (COE) is the overall operational environment that exists today and in ...