The undeclared missile war between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and the United States Navy has made one thing irrefutably clear: the tens of billions of dollars the service has poured into protecting its warships has paid off. The U.S. is allied with most countries in the Red Sea...
In Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda ran a parallel state to the Taliban. They had their own foreign policy; attacking U.S. embassies, warships, and American cities. They had thousands of people graduating from their training camps. They have never revived a similar base of oper...
The U.S. currently has as many as 31 laser programs (Pentagon researchers have been shooting down drones with lasers since 1973), but has struggled to field robust, reliable systems. The XN-1 LaWS (“Laser Weapon System”), installed on the U.S. Navy amphibious warfare vessel USS Ponce...
Using charter flights and naval warships, India will begin to bring hundreds of thousands of citizens home from Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and the Maldives. May 5, 2020 Wingstop SSS +33% for April Thanks to Delivery Crediting a successful free delivery promotion, Wingstop same-store sales climbed...
it’s got the largest fleet of commercial ships, the largest number of mariners, the largest number of major ports, and the largest number of warships of any country in the world. Not just within its borders, it also provides the technology essential for port cranes to work around the ...
This rock is one of many wayward solar objects to have escaped its home in the Asteroid Asteroid 1998 OR2 Belt, a vast ring of rock and ice debris orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Thought to be the debris of a failed planet from the early days of the solar system, these objects rang...
have seen so many food-safety problems in China, such as wasted oil, lean meat powder(瘦肉精), melamine(三聚氰胺), which has done great damage to people’s life. We don’t know what can be eaten and how much harmful food we have eaten. Now it is not wars and natural disasters but...
When China cracked down on the opium trade, the British government sent warships, triggering the Opium War of 1840. The humiliating Chinese defeathanded the British control of Hong Kong, but the conflict shed further light on the East India Company’s dark dealings in the name of profit. ...
in the Persian Gulf. Or to Malaysia or Indonesia, both of which have responsibilities to defend the vital Malacca Strait against pirates and other threats. Or India, which has already been targeted by seaborne terrorists operating out of Pakistan and expressed interest in purchasing the warships. ...
In many treaties the withholding tax on royalties and fees for technical services emanating from India is lower than the general tax rate. A careful planning and corporate structuring can reduce the tax obligations considerably. The following treaties have been successfully used by international ...