October 14, 2026 | Ivana Stradner, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Is Russia playing deadly games with the plague? Look to its history.

Excerpt One of the greatest scourges the world has ever known is in recent headlines: the Plague. A technician at Russia’s Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute has died of “pneumonia of unknown...

Op-eds

June 2, 2025 | |

‘Brilliant Operation’: Ukraine Hammers Russian Bomber Fleet With Ambitious Drone Operation

Ukraine’s Surprise Drone Strike: Ukraine claimed to have destroyed or damaged nearly a third of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet on June 1 in its largest drone operation within...

Flash Briefs

February 21, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Murder in the Gulag

Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin’s only serious rival, has been eliminated