Several nations subsequently adopted the use of Bitcoin. For example, in 2022 the Central African Republic or CAR was the first African country to adopt cryptocurrency as its official currency. North ...

The historical record is definitive. Beijing's "Trojan stuff" can spy on you. Then — at a Pearl Harbor moment — the Trojan Horse stuff shutdowns or co-opts the computers and communications of a ...

The Saudis are also new at this international diplomacy, and do not have a legacy of past failures or disappointments. That will change as long as the Saudis remain active in regional and global ...

Donald "Art of the Deal" Trump understands leverage — how to create advantage (real or perceived) and how to use it. Trump will, on occasion, bend to adversarial pressure (see Bond Markets) — until he ...

Another bit of good advice was to make a clean break after a war. The Americans still have over 20,000 troops in South Korea 72 years after the war ended. Over the last few decades South Korea has ...

ARAMCO persisted through the chaos of World War II, through the nuclear-clouded Cold War, through wretched decades of Communist, Islamo-fascist, anti-Semitic and anti-American violence. And the ...

The limpet mines recently used against Russian ships do not linger. If any fall or are shaken off a ship hull, it is unlikely to do any damage in the future. The amount of explosives is small and the ...

China assumes that, after a few years of a U.S. blockade, enough nations suffering from loss of trade with China would successfully persuade the Americans to end it. This has many issues, but it ...

Russia has more than twice as many police per million population than the United States. Even when these police forces are at full strength, their numbers are often inadequate to handle many criminal ...

The high cost of the new space center was justified by claims that there would be many commercial launches for foreign customers. That proved impossible because the western nations that used launch ...

Shortly after the outbreak of the Peninsular War (1808-1814), the British 14th Light Dragoons was dispatched to Spain with Sir Arthur Wellesely's army. Arriving in 1809, the regiment would spend ...

A Young Woman Who Fought the Nazis. As the title suggests, this is a gripping story of French resistance to the Nazis in the Second World War. It begins with the German conquest o ...