Pocket pistols exist for a practical reason: a smaller handgun is easier to carry when a larger one is likely to be left behind. The engineering tradeoff shows up in terminal ballistics. Once ammunition is fired through short barrels and a heavy-clothing barrier, several familiar pocket calibers struggle to...

Novorossiysk has become more than a naval base. It now functions as a case study in how ports, fleets, air defenses, and energy infrastructure can all be pressured at once by unmanned systems. The wider significance is not the event timeline. The larger issue is what the strike pattern...