The scale of Russia is difficult to imagine. It is the world’s largest country by land mass – nearly twice as big as Canada, the world’s second-largest nation – and covers all of northern ...

Global Firepower, an annually updated defense-related statistics website with information on 145 countries, has identified 46 nations that have gained military strength in the last year.

After World War II, nations pledged to create a more equal and law-abiding world. Now Russia, China and the U.S. are ...