MOSCOW, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- "The issue of confrontation with Russia, especially direct confrontation, is still, unfortunately, kept alive by our Pentagon partners," General of the Army Yuri Baluyevsky, Russia's Chief of the General Staff, said in a mid-December interview with RIA Novosti.
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- When Operation Desert Storm ended with a crushing defeat of Iraqi forces in early 1991, many pundits opined that U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush was assured of re-election. Military success had made the president so popular that it was hard to see what could derail his re-election bid. But Bush's popularity declined rapidly after Desert Storm, and in 1992 he lost the White House to Bill Clinton in an election that had little to do with national security.
MOSCOW, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Russian space industry experts are currently discussing the concept of a federal program to use the results of space research to aid national socioeconomic development.
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. company ATK said Thursday its propulsion and composite technologies played a key role in a GPS satellite launch Thursday.
EDA gives away first research and technology contracts; Saab likely winner of Danish fighter contract; Dassault to finally offload some Rafales to Libya; Czech Republic pulls out of deal with Steyr-Daimler-Puch; Cougar in lead of British patrol vehicle contest
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Japan's ballistic missile defense program took a giant leap forward Monday with its first successful interception of a ballistic missile with a U.S.-built Standard Missile-3 or SM-3, off Kauai Island, Hawaii; Russia ready to put MIRVs on Topol-Ms
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Russia's 21st success in selling weapons to the world is rooted in its experience as a successful arms manufacturer for the largest mechanized army in history in World War II.
A soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, places a flag at a gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
