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Even before the outbreak of Operation Epic Fury, which is now paused due to a ceasefire, Iran’s naval capabilities were not all that impressive...
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The Iran Crisis Isn’t Exactly Over: The U.S. Navy has a near-perfect record of shooting down drones and missiles at sea. Oil tanker crews...
Nine months after Donald Trump declared Iran’s nuclear program ‘obliterated,’ the two countries are negotiating in Pakistan with what the BBC calls a ‘total...
The Iran war will be assessed in the usual ways—targets hit, systems degraded, and what the ceasefire froze in place. That accounting misses where...
Iran’s remaining arsenal, high gas prices, Strait of Hormuz passage, and terrorism threats are all emphasized focal points for assessments of Operation Epic Fury,...
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...
New photos of the mysterious RQ-180 offer a rare glimpse into one of the United States’ most secretive and rarely seen unmanned aircraft, or...
The US Navy is planning to build a dozen of the new Columbia SSBN guided-missile submarines, but it’d rather have 16. And they need...
Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, stemming from the inherently flawed nature of human beings (Homo sapiens), and therefore they afflict even the...
Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, stemming from the imperfect nature of human beings, and therefore they afflict even the best manmade objects,...
Four astronauts are hours from splashing down after circling the far side of the Moon. There’s a helium leak on board that turned out...
Trump’s FY2027 budget proposal includes $1.5 trillion in defense spending, a 40-plus-percent increase to what was already the world’s most generous defense budget. Framed...
Beginning December 2026, eligible men will be automatically registered for Selective Service. The self-registration requirement will end, shifting responsibility from the individual to the...
Why Iran Just Closed the Strait of Hormuz – And What It Means – Less than 24 hours after a U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement formed...
The late Israeli political analyst and writer Amos Elon despaired throughout his life about the impossibility of maintaining peace agreements, truces, and ceasefires. There...
Will Donald Trump Pull the United States Out of NATO? As the world focused on a tenuous ceasefire in the Middle East between the...
The United States and Iran this week agreed to a two-week ceasefire. The announcement came after U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened to annihilate...
On April 7, 2026, the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire, which paused 40 days of high-intensity conflict that often seemed poised...
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...
Even before the outbreak of Operation Epic Fury, which is now paused due to a ceasefire, Iran’s naval capabilities were not all that impressive...
Chester Nimitz took command of the Pacific Fleet weeks after Pearl Harbor — when American naval power was at its lowest point in history....
The F-16 has long been one of the workhorses of the United States Air Force since it entered service in 1978 — nearly half...
As the United States once again prioritizes long-range, survivable strike and reconnaissance platforms, much of the focus has shifted to future systems like hypersonic...
New imagery of the F-22 Raptor offers the clearest look yet at a problem the U.S. Air Force is looking to fix. At the...
