5 historical Chinese military leaders you should know about
When it comes to the Chinese military, most westerners are familiar with the most recent Chinese leaders. A country with thousands of years of history, of course, is going to…
China has been building multistage ballistic missiles for centuries
These days, all China hawks can think about are the People’s Republic of China’s anti-carrier Dongfeng multistage ballistic missile, specifically, the DF-26. The DF-26 has been dubbed the “carrier killer”…
5 times using food as a weapon helped turn the tide of a battle
Napoleon is credited for saying that an Army marches on its stomach. Whether he actually said that or not is disputed, but whomever did say that was correct: Food is…
The FBI’s golden Chinese intelligence asset was a double agent the whole time
Counterterrorism is more of an art than a science at times, it seems. When FBI special agents launched an investigation into an LA-based importer, they discovered she was feeding sensitive…
The United States developed the first hypersonic missile in 1949
Chinese and Russian propaganda like to claim that they are streets ahead of the United States when it comes to hypersonic missile technology. The claim is so widespread that even…
This is how the US and Japan plan to defend Taiwan against the Chinese
The wrangle between the Chinese and Taiwan has been on for decades, as neither countries want to surrender. China has not ceased, even for a moment, from threatening Taiwan and…
That time a Filipino UN Battalion held off an entire Chinese Division in Korea
The history of warfare is full of heroic last stands. From the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae to the Texians and Tejanos at the Alamo, numerically inferior forces have stood up…
This is why China has declared war on organized religion
For the past year, China has imprisoned Muslims for displaying their faith, compelled Buddhists to vow devotion to the ruling coalition, and pressured Christian churches to remove their crosses. The…
A Chinese diesel submarine surfaced in the middle of a US carrier group
There’s a lot about the Song-class Chinese submarine that’s special. It was the first submarine developed entirely by the People’s Republic of China and the first to use the modern…