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The Iran War Is Draining America and Allies Of Key Missile Platforms The prestigious British Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has released a damning report...
From Nixon’s Christmas Bombings to Trump’s 15-Point Plan: Why the IRGC and Iran’s Regular Army Are Fighting Two Different Wars From the man who...
Why Australia May Never Get The AUKUS Nuclear Attack Subs It Wants AUKUS has not formally fallen apart, but the partnership is under significant...
The Future of War Belongs to Drone Swarms—and China Knows It Among many troubling global developments that run counter to the strength and efficacy...
Strategic expert Andrew A. Michta explores how Russia is capitalizing on the Iran War to consolidate gains in Europe. With U.S. resources drained and...
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...
Iran Keeps Saying It Hit a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier. And America Just Says No Way On March 25, 2026, Iran’s military claimed it...
From a $4 Million Patriot Missile to a $3.50 Laser Shot: How the Iran War Is Forcing the Pentagon, Ukraine, and Israel to Reinvent...
Why America Is Running Short of Aircraft Carriers, And No Solution Seems Easy In March 2026, the U.S. Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier, the...
CF-18: Canada’s Old Fighter That Is Learning New Missile Tricks Canada’s ageing CF-18 fleet is on the up, it seems, with the Royal Canadian...
The U.S. Navy Built 24 Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers. It Can’t Pull That Off Again The U.S. was able to build twenty-four Essex-class aircraft carriers...
From Chernobyl’s Reactor to DARPA’s Lab to the International Space Station: How a Fungus Became a Pentagon Priority Nearly 40 years ago, in April...
F-35 Stealth Fighter Is A Powerhouse: But a Labor Strike Is Now Possible Remember the Boeing F-15EX Eagle II Strike from last year? Could...
6 Cruise Ships Trapped As Hormuz Crisis Escalates Thanks to Iran Six cruise ships remain stranded in ports across the Arabian Gulf after operations...
92% of Iran’s Warships Destroyed, the IRGC Navy Commander Killed, and the Strait of Hormuz Still Closed: Why the April 6 Deadline Changes Everything...
The Shahed Went to Moscow in 2022, Came Back as the Geran-2 in 2026: How a Drone Deal Came Full Circle in Two Wars...
Military Quote of the Day: “The Nation That Controls the Air Will Eventually Control the World” – Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. Billy Mitchell never...
America Is Winning the Air War Over Iran. The War Keeps Going Anyway The early reports out of Central Command have a familiar feel...
Fake Russian IDs, Orders Never to Be Captured, and 50% Casualties: Inside North Korea’s Secret War in Ukraine The Russian Army has sustained nearly...
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Bruce E. Bechtol Jr., a political science professor and proliferation expert, evaluates the strategic partnership between Iran and North...
Summary and Key Points: Reuben F. Johnson, a veteran defense technology analyst and Casimir Pulaski Foundation fellow, scrutinizes the Ninth Congress of the Workers’...
Korea’s Division Isn’t a Glitch Anymore. It’s a Feature of the New Order The division of Korea was always understood to be temporary. In...
China Could Make Trouble for America By Selling To Iran Some Impressive Military Hardware The Iranian military has taken a beating since the combined...
The U.S. Navy’s USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier Has Been Tested To the Limit The USS Gerald R. Ford is the U.S. Navy’s...
The M60A3 Tank Is Old – But Upgrades Keep It Rolling Along Around the World In January 2025, Brazil announced that it would return...
1 Aircraft Carrier Fighting Iran, 1 on Fire, 1 Still Days Away: The Navy Is Improvising in Iran War Negative rhetoric from the mainstream...
The U.S. Navy’s SSN(X) Stealth Submarines Come with a Massive Cost Precious little is known about the U.S. Navy’s upcoming SSN(X) submarine. The next-generation...
