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The U.S. Navy faces a shipbuilding crunch: widespread delays, cost overruns, and major programs being scaled back or reworked, even after shipbuilding budgets nearly...
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Western intelligence reveals visible cracks in Iran’s regime as hundreds of IRGC officers defect and high-ranking diplomats seek asylum in Europe. Amidst a severe...
Now six years old, the U.S. Space Force remains an unusual service—formally independent, yet embedded inside the Department of the Air Force and built...
How the Greenland Crisis Ends: Not with a Bang, but with a Whimper The Greenland crisis is never going to end the way its...
Europe Won’t Fight The U.S. Over Greenland—But It Could Evict American Forces American President Donald Trump has significantly ramped up his bellicose rhetoric about...
Key Points and Summary – The recent NATO summit in The Hague, where European allies agreed to a new 5% of GDP defense spending...
The Trump administration made the Russia-Ukraine ceasefire its priority foreign policy initiative shortly after the inauguration. Setting aside Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric that he...
The strain in US-European relations under the second Trump administration stems primarily from a deepening ideological divide, not just policy disputes over trade or...
Since the ill-fated Oval Office meeting between Presidents Trump and Zelensky, the headlines have been dominated by pronouncements about the end of NATO, the...
Summary and Key Points: General George S. Patton believed “wars are won by men,” a philosophy forged by his lifelong battle to overcome undiagnosed...
The U.S. Navy's Columbia-class program faces critical delays, with the lead boat USS District of Columbia (SSBN-826) now projected for delivery 17 months late...
The U.S. Army has unveiled the M1E3, a radical new tank prototype designed to be lighter, faster, and AI-enabled. Showcased in Detroit, this next-generation...
Summary and Key Points: Analysts are debating whether the U.S. should export its upcoming sixth-generation fighters, the Air Force’s F-47 and Navy’s F/A-XX, or...
Winter Storm Fern is set to pummel the Northeast and Midwest this weekend, affecting 230 million Americans across 33 states. Forecasts predict heavy snow...
Why Stephen Hawking’s View Of God Still Stirs Debate In Science “I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws...
Donald Trump has floated the idea of sending Americans $2,000 “tariff dividend” checks funded by tariff revenue, and recently suggested he could do it...
Thomas Alva Edison’s famous line about finding “10,000 ways that won’t work” captures a career built on persistence, iteration, and industrial-scale invention. Born in...
A 2002 Christmas broadcast line captures Queen Elizabeth II’s core theme: duty to others in a world that pulls attention in every direction. Born...
Donald Trump’s renewed push to acquire Greenland—and threats of tariffs until a “complete and total purchase” is reached—has triggered unusually sharp resistance from European...
A Greenland dispute is framed as more than a transatlantic spat—it’s a stress test of Europe’s moral consistency. The argument holds that Trump’s rhetoric...
Donald Trump’s transactional instincts could tempt him to treat Iranian regime change like Ukraine or Venezuela: help, but only for a commercial payoff. That...
Key Points and Summary – When North Korea stormed across the 38th parallel in June 1950, an exhausted post-WWII US Army rushed a tiny...
Key Points and Summary – North Korea’s special operations forces are often overlooked, but estimates place them among the world’s largest elite formations. -Designed...
Key Points and Summary – North Korea’s most underrated weapon isn’t its nukes or artillery, but its vast tunnel network under and around the...
Summary and Key Points: –North Korea‘s deployment of 15,000 troops to support Russia in Ukraine offers critical battlefield experience that could significantly enhance its...
The U.S. Navy faces a shipbuilding crunch: widespread delays, cost overruns, and major programs being scaled back or reworked, even after shipbuilding budgets nearly...
Russia’s Kirov-class battlecrusier Admiral Nakhimov is back in the water and moving under its own power for the first time since the late 1990s,...
A Washington Post report argues Russia’s strategy of freezing Ukraine into submission is running into a new reality: Ukraine is building an AI-enabled air-defense...
Boeing’s X-32 was built around practicality: durability, straightforward diagnostics, and sustainment kept close to the squadron. It could meet demanding requirements, but it did...
A major ICE surge in Minnesota has put the Minnesota National Guard on standby to support local public safety, with troops set to wear...
