It isn’t well remembered in the rest of the world that Peru and Ecuador fought a brief conflict in 1995 over a disputed border area; the Cenepa War.
I wrote an article recently on the Paribatra bomber, Thailand’s first indigenously designed and built aircraft. This rather obscure aircraft was a little tricky to research as there is not a lot out there on it, certainly in English. But there is a veritable...
It will soon be one year since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the world is still bickering about exactly what to do about it. That is all very depressing, but at least the world IS talking about Ukraine. Whereas Burma, also known as Myanmar, is now approaching two years...
During the Second World War, fighter designs generally came in two primary variants. You had your skinny boys, that used liquid-cooled inline engines. Then you had your chunks, that used big, beefy air-cooled radials. And amongst the latter, the P-47...
A few years back I wrote an article for The National Interest where I discussed how the previous years of conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq had demonstrated the need for a cheap, lightweight guided infantry weapon capable of being used in a multitude of roles. Western...
The Kingdom of Siam, today better known as Thailand, had a somewhat precarious existence during the age of European colonialism. Sandwiched as it was between the empires of France in Indochina and Britain in Burma, Siam saw its position as a regional power diminished...
