Ed Nash has spent years traveling around the world. Between June 2015 and July 2016 he volunteered with the Kurdish YPG in its battle against ISIS in Syria; his book on his experiences, Desert Sniper, was published by Little, Brown in September 2018.
The end of the First World War saw the creation of several new countries as the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires were broken up by the victorious allies. One of these was Czechoslovakia. Having a rather precarious existence in central Europe, sandwiched between...
When jet-powered combat aircraft first started to enter service in the mid-1940s, the US Navy was an early and enthusiastic adopter of the new technology. But they very rapidly hit a quandary. The initial jet aircraft had been straight wing planforms, similar to the...
In a move that is alarming regional actors, Iran has begun to mass substantial military forces along its border with Azerbaijan. Footage from Iranian state television and social media shows large numbers of tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery being moved by Iran...
