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Summary and Key Points: A B-52 Lost in Greenland Carrying Nukes -Greenland’s renewed political spotlight intersects with an older, darker episode: the January 1968...
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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...
M1E3: 19FortyFive Saw This Tank Upclose (Summary and Key Points) -A prototype of the U.S. Army’s next-generation main battle tank, the M1E3 Abrams, appeared...
Greenland is unlikely to fracture NATO as an institution, but it could weaken what matters most: deterrence credibility. If Washington applies visible pressure on...
Analysts tracking China’s structural macro risks warn that 2026 could bring a rare convergence of seven destabilizing pressures. The warning set spans widening pension...
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...
The Midway-class carriers were conceived in World War II as tougher, better-protected successors to earlier flattops—incorporating British lessons on armored flight decks while still...
The U.S. Army is moving women drill sergeants from the long-used bush hat to the same brown campaign “Smokey Bear” hat worn by men,...
Great-power competition is making hypersonic missiles a central measure of deterrence. Bloomberg reports the Army missed its end-2025 deadline to field the Dark Eagle...
The proposed Trump-class battleship concept centers on a large, high-power hull built to carry next-generation weapons and dense magazines. The design envisions 128 Mk-41...
A new U.S. State Department travel advisory (Level 2: “Exercise Increased Caution”) urges visitors to Jamaica to account for elevated crime risk, gang-related violence,...
Stephen Hawking’s “advanced monkeys” quote frames Earth as small and ordinary, yet home to a species capable of understanding the universe—and that capacity, he...
Benjamin Franklin rose from a Boston apprentice to a Philadelphia printer who treated the press as a tool for virtue and free speech. He...
Summary and Key Points – A Brookings Institution analysis estimates net migration turned negative in 2025—between –10,000 and –295,000—driven by fewer entries and higher...
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...
Summary and Key Points – Trump’s apparent enthusiasm for dramatic, made-for-television interventions risks dragging the United States back into the classic problem of military...
What Is Trump’s Real Strategy on Iran? Much of the commentary on Donald Trump’s approach to Iran begins from a familiar assumption: that he...
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...
Summary and Key Points: A B-52 Lost in Greenland Carrying Nukes -Greenland’s renewed political spotlight intersects with an older, darker episode: the January 1968...
Former Army officer Brent M. Eastwood praises the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle as a "pint-sized battlewagon" that proved its immense value during Operation Desert...
A widely shared quote about power and character—often credited to Abraham Lincoln—was never actually spoken by the 16th president. The line traces back to...
Winston Churchill’s legend was forged long before 1940. Born at Blenheim Palace in 1874, he pursued a military path through Sandhurst and sought combat...
Japan has begun sea trials of a 100-kilowatt-class laser weapon intended to counter drones by burning or disabling targets without missiles or gunfire. The...
