Spain’s railway network is facing renewed scrutiny over maintenance funding and operational safety following the Urda train disaster in Toledo province on Wednesday, 28 October, less than nine months after a collision
This article is based on the piece written by Mike Schuler, editor of gCaptain.com The past year has been marked by an unprecedented wave of maritime violence in the Red Sea and
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Angela Merkel’s memoir, Freedom, offers a reflective glimpse into the life and decisions of one of the most influential leaders of the 21st century. True to Merkel’s cautious and discreet style, the book
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In Kathmandu, I observed that Nepal Prime Minister KP Oli’s visit to China has become a hot potato in the chilly Kathmandu valley. The China visit is being portrayed by his Unified
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In a lecture at a lecture at the India International Centre [IIC] on ‘Future Wars and the Indian Armed Forces’. India’s Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan, the senior most military
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In a statement that has escalated tensions between Russia and the West, Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), claimed that US and British intelligence agencies were behind the
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There is a scene early on in Nathanael West’s satirical 1933 novella Miss Lonelyhearts that reeks of depression, despair, and genius. It’s hard to forget. The protagonist is a lovelorn advice columnist for a
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The Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a statement on Thursday regarding the two attacks by Western long-range weapons on Russian territory on November 19 and 21 and Moscow’s reactive strike on a facility within Ukraine’s defence industrial complex
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Every winter the war in Ukraine reaches an interregnum of sorts as ground conditions become unfavourable for conduct of military operations. This year there is an additional factor of US President elect
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The Iranian hacking group Handala has announced a fresh cyber attack, claiming to have breached the networks of Silicom, a prominent company linked to Israeli intelligence. According to Handala, Silicom serves as
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Israel’s intelligence and security agencies are probing the disappearance of an Israeli-Moldovan dual citizen in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a potential terrorist incident, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) confirmed
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National security advisers from the Biden administration convened a high-level meeting with executives from major telecommunications companies on Friday to address what has been described as the most severe cybersecurity breach in
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On November 14, 2023, a month into Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians in Gaza, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, one of the leaders of Ansar Allah and of the government of Yemen, delivered a
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Ukraine says that Russia launched an ICBM that crashed into a manufacturing facility in Dnipro. Russia has said nothing. Some Russian mil-bloggers seem to have taken Ukrainian propaganda and supplied video as
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Ukrainian troops training in the UK to battle Russian forces received a stark and sobering address from Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief, now serving as the nation’s ambassador to London. Speaking at
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Washington, London, and Canberra have announced a new effort to advance the testing and deployment of hypersonic missiles and related technologies under the trilateral AUKUS security partnership. The initiative, part of the
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