Tuesday 2 August
Nearly 16 months after the plane crash in western Russia that killed Polish president Lech Kaczyński, his wife, eight crew members and 86 political and military officials, a recently published report into the 10 April…
Tuesday 16 March
When a French photojournalist captured striking images of western soldiers emerging from a Kabul firefight earlier this year, New Zealand would have been one of the last places he might have expected his pictures to make…
Guam’s population will increase by almost half in 2014 when the US military relocates to this tropical paradise from Japan’s Okinawa. It’s a milestone in the island’s history and a development boom is under way.
Some say they’re a useful force for good, others say they’re an ungovernable hindrance undermining the good work of government troops. Either way, private security firms are playing an important part in conflicts around the…
Swiss military food is amongst the best military food in the world. We attend kitchen boot camp to witness operational excellence in the field of the culinary arts.
Saturday 3 April
In 1990 when I did my German civilian service – working in a hospital – it took 15 months, three months more than the military conscription option
Friday 22 January
A few days before the international Afghanistan conference in London on 28 January, there are overwhelming signs that Germans are tired of sending their soldiers into a war many believe cannot be won.
Sunday 8 August
Army chiefs are influential in most countries, but in Thailand the head of the military enjoys exceptional, if not excessive, power.
It is a country renowned for its neutrality, but there is nothing hands-off about Swiss Army life where their in-demand food is concerned.
The US military has long used a type of camouflage pattern designed according to the type of terrain in which it will be used. Now, a Brooklyn-based company has persuaded it to try a new way of (not) seeing things.
Thursday 24 February
Nuclear armed, highly motivated and a potentially destabilising force in Northeast Asia, the North Korean People’s Army, or KPA, is one of the most feared fighting forces on the planet.
In the forest of Evjemoen, Norway's officer training school puts troops through an extreme test of endurance. It's a physical and mental challenge but more of the latter in these days of modern warfare.
Part of the British Army for nearly 200 years, Nepalese Gurkhas are renowned for their skill and bravery. For Monocle, these Gurkhas swapped their distinctive uniforms for bold, smart civvies.
The new hi-tech armoured vehicles destined for US and UK troops in Afghanistan and a new mine-resistant jacket from a Columbian bullet-proof clothing maker. Plus, why back problems are adding to the hardship of life in…
Saturday 26 June
When Barack Obama announced that he was demoting General Stanley McChrystal on Wednesday, the President pointedly avoided identifying the magazine that had just dubbed his head of Afghanistan forces “The Runaway General”…
The largest city to be created in the past 100 years is Brazil’s capital. That bold, modernist ideal extends to its military departments, shaped in swathes of creative concrete by architectural icon, Oscar Niemeyer.
It is a tiny Muslim nation in one of the world’s most politically hostile regions. But Djibouti is also in the perfect position to keep tabs on Islamist militants. That’s why the US army is here and, thanks to a hearts- and…
Kenya's watchful rich and Lebanon's army fights back.
The brief: to persuade Afghanis to take pride in their national army, to shun terrorism and to give up the narcotics trade. Not an easy task in a country where war has been raging for nine years and where the population is…
Burmese insurgent armies, Iraq reinforcements and extremism in the Philippines.
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