Military

Pakistan has reinstated the military courts which were expired on 07 January 2017. The military courts were established after Peshawar massacre to punish terrorists. The military courts would try civilian suspects of terrorism. The military courts in Pakistan are not ...

Russia will begin the initial delivery of Kamov military helicopters to India in 2019, the head of Russia’s state-owned Russian Helicopters said Feb. 20, Reuters reported. The two countries agreed in October to a deal to jointly manufacture 200 Ka-226T ...

Summary China is modernizing its military one step at a time, and the focus of the new year appears to be organizational reform and restructuring. An announcement from the Chinese military on Jan. 11 heralded the new configuration of its ...

Forecast The Suwalki Gap, which connects Eastern Europe to the Baltic states, is unlikely to become a heavily militarized area in the Russia-NATO standoff like the Fulda Gap was during the Cold War. However, the land connection will be critical ...

Summary Over the past few months, a wave of violence has enflamed tensions between Israelis and Palestinians once again. This time, though, it has taken on a new character, and rumors of a third intifada — the “intifada of knives” ...

Forecast Even as tensions in the Pacific Rim increase, military ties between China and the United States will become tighter. China will continue to cooperate with the United States and Japan to establish mechanisms to manage crisis situations. U.S. arms ...

A critical shift in the Kremlin’s budgetary planning is the flat growth in defense spending, which had risen steadily every year since 2011. The Kremlin had planned on expanding defense spending from the 2014 budget to 2015 by 20 percent ...

Egypt : Active Personnel : 438,000  Egypt is a country in the north of Africa with a staggering population of 94 million people and has face major political crises in the recent past but this has not changed its position ...