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Murphy's Law: Russia Lowers Recruiting Standards
Strategy Page· 1 day agoOctober 5, 2023: Russia is running out of men suitable for military service due mostly to opposition to conscription and voluntary enlistment. The standards can only be lowered so far before ...
Iraq: Radical Ideas Rattle Politicians
Strategy Page· 2 days agoSeptember 25, 2018: Iraq has a rapidly growing population. A growing portion of the population has no memory of life under Saddam (where demonstrations or any dissent was forbidden) but do take ...
Iraq: Tolerance for Intolerance
Strategy Page· 1 day agoTo Moslems, intolerance of other religions is part of their religious traditions. Moslems are not only obliged to live their lives according to rules laid out in the Koran, but try and convince ...
Ukraine war: Key events in the Russian invasion
Reuters· 6 days agoRussia's all-out invasion of Ukraine in February, 2022, has led to Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War Two. Kyiv's outgunned and outmanned forces...
Ukraine’s draft woes leave the West facing pressure to make up for the troop shortfall
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 7 days agoMeanwhile, the hunt for eligible men has seen recruitment officers hauling people in from off the...
British schoolchildren to be asked whether they would stand up and serve thei...
Daily Express· 3 days agoBritian will discover whether youngsters are up for the fight when schoolchildren are polled about...
Flu of 1918 hit state with a wallop | Only in Oklahoma
Tulsa World· 1 day agoPublic meetings of all kinds -- schools, churches, theaters -- were closed for most of October 1918 because of a flu epidemic that killed 7,350 Oklahomans and more than 600,000 people nationwide ...
As Israeli tourism to Georgia has boomed, these Israelis have put down roots in Tbilisi - Jewish...
JTA· 5 days agoIsraelis were the fourth-most frequent visitors to Georgia last year, after Russia, Turkey and...
Korea: Failure Is No Longer An Option
Strategy Page· 2 days agoFor North Korea this includes the habit of dragging out negotiations for a long time in order to extract more from the other side. In the past, when the North Korean economic and internal loyalty ...