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Given the security trends around the world, private security companies are getting bigger. To determine the world’s four largest private armies, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the Contract Security...
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The United States is one of only a few countries in the world where citizens have a constitutional right to gun ownership. But unlike many other freedoms protected by the Bill of Rights, the right to...
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Earlier this year, the Minister of Defense of Denmark announced a proposal to begin conscripting women into the nation’s armed services. The nation currently allows women to serve, but only...
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The United States has more stealth planes than any other nation. The technology’s roots trace back to the 1970s when Denys Overholser, a mathematician employed at Lockheed Aircraft, played a...
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Earlier this year, the Biden Administration submitted a fiscal 2024 defense budget for congressional approval. At $842 billion, the proposal marks a $26 billion increase from the previous year’s...
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During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the defending forces have used artillery fire, notably long-range missile systems such as the HIMARS platform, to great effect. Many of the artillery systems...
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The era of massive navies controlling the seas, trade, and borders, has ended. But that doesn’t mean that a powerful fleet isn’t an essential aspect of military might. Today, technology has...
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America’s gun industry is booming. Domestic firearm production topped 13.8 million in 2021, a 66% increase from 8.3 million just five years earlier, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,...
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Heavily armored and capable of massive destruction, the modern tank dominates the battlefield. It has been employed by countless militaries around the world in conflicts ranging from land wars in...
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Although the United States does not currently have the largest navy presence, it ranks as the world’s strongest naval power. The U.S. Navy by itself boasts a fleet of over 240 ships and submarines....
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Consumer spending has been the backbone of the U.S. economy for well over half a century. However, driven by the rise of e-commerce, the way Americans shop has changed considerably in recent years....
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The United States won the war in the Pacific during World War II in part because of its superior means of manufacturing. By the end of the war, the American Navy was built up from a fleet of about...
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Global tensions among the worst they have been in the 21st century, notably among a number of countries armed with nuclear weapons, like the U.S., China, Russia, and Israel. In the light of this,...
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The third generation of modern fighter jets were developed and introduced in the 1950s and 1960s, roughly two decades after the invention of jet propulsion. These jets, some still in use today, were...
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While artillery and other armored vehicles and drones have received much of the attention as being important to the outcome of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, helicopters have also played an...
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