Wes O’Donnell

As a soldier between 1997 and 2003 and an airman between 2003 and 2007, much of my time in the military was s…

Back in July, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that Iran was preparing to provide Russia with …

After the ribbon-cutting, he honked his red nose and rode off on a tiny bicycle. Try to imagine a U.S. presid…

Known stateside simply as the "one-one-three" or "track", the M113 is a fully tracked armored personnel carri…

In the early days of the conflict, when it became obvious how bad the Russian military was at warfighting, it…

In case you missed it, the internet was abuzz late last week with numerous media outlets reporting that Kim J…

As if this Russian shit-show couldn't get any worse, the Russian military is now occupying Europe's largest n…

In case you missed it, the chairman of Russia's second largest oil producer, and vocal critic of Putin's war …

The U.S. military is facing its worst recruiting challenge since the end of the Vietnam War. We're a mere mon…

Let's perform a thought experiment - picture President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin waking up at 2:30 AM in a…

In 2014, Vice News published a peerless series of videos called 'Russian Roulette' that revealed to the world…

A month-long investigation by CNN has revealed that Russian authorities are offering convicts freedom after s…

If there's one plane that the media loves to hate, it's the F-35 Lightning II. Maybe it's because the F-35 Li…

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi kicked off her Asian tour today which, according to her it…

There's been a lot of fearmongering about the Chinese military recently. Alarmist headlines meant to drive cl…

Russia has announced today that they plan to end their 28-year partnership with NASA, bringing a close to a d…

The Russians have a problem. Their surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems are good. Maybe too good. Or, at leas…

In today's high-tech world of information warfare, drones, and fifth-gen stealth fighters, there is still one…

In March of 2018, Putin announced his newest doomsday weapon - the Poseidon nuclear-tipped torpedo. But after…

When I write, I tend to focus on topics that I have at least some level of expertise in - global security lat…

It's a headline that sounds like it was ripped straight from a satire article on The Onion. Unfortunately, it…

As the Russo-Ukraine War drags on, I keep coming back to what was happening inside Putin's mind that convince…

Between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's anti-Semitic outbursts, and numerous other high-ranking Russ…

After months of calibrations, the space-loving citizens of the world held their breath for this moment; the f…