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The Strait of Hormuz Carries 20% of the World’s Oil — The Strait of Malacca Carries $3.5 Trillion in Annual Trade and One-Third of...
The U.S. Spends More on Defense Than the Next 10 Countries Combined — 37% of All Global Military Expenditure According to recent news reports,...
The U.S. Military Could Force Ships Through the Strait of Hormuz — It Can’t Make Insurers, Shippers, or Energy Markets Believe It’s Safe On...
The F-47 NGAD Gets $5 Billion in the Defense Budget — The Navy’s F/A-XX Gets $140 Million With $72 Million Tied to an Uncertain...
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...
Europe’s Answer to the F-35 Has 2-3 Weeks to Live — France and Germany Can’t Agree on Who Leads, and the Program Is About...
The Air Force’s F-47 Got $5 Billion — The Navy’s F/A-XX Nearly Died at $74 Million Before Congressional Appropriators Intervened The Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation...
The U.S. Plans to Build 100 B-21 Raiders — The Air Force’s Own Commanders Say That’s Not Enough for Today’s Threat Environment With Operation...
The Aircraft Carrier Ford Spent 5 Days in Split, Croatia — The Navy Declared It Combat-Ready and Sent It Back to the Middle East...
The Iran War Is Now Becoming a Strait of Hormuz Showdown The war in Iran began just over a month ago, when the United...
The U.S. Air Force probably wouldn’t land on anyone’s list as a top-paying employer. However, learning a valuable skill in the Air Force—especially one...
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...
Iran Rejected the 45-Day Ceasefire — ‘We Only Accept an End to the War With Guarantees We Won’t Be Attacked Again’ On the most...
The Houthis Held Back for 5 Weeks — They’re Running a Calibrated Escalation Strategy Designed by Iran for Maximum Leverage The Yemen-based, Iran-backed Houthis...
Iran Doesn’t Need to Win the War — It Just Needs to Keep the Strait of Hormuz Closed Long Enough for Americans to Turn...
Russia Is Providing Iran With Satellite Imagery, Targeting Data, Intelligence Support, and Drone Deliveries In aiding Iranian strikes, Russia reverts to an old playbook...
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...
SR-71 ‘The Rapid Rabbit’ Lost Both Engines and All Electronics at Mach 3.2 Over Vietnam — Major Tom Pugh Saved the Aircraft at Mach...
Leopard 2 Was Built to Dominate—the Ukraine War Turned It into a Target Germany’s Leopard 2 Main Battle Tank (MBT) is an excellent tank....
Too Hot for the USS Gerald R. Ford: Why the Navy’s Newest Aircrat Carrier Still Can’t Fully Operate the F-35C The USS Gerald R....
‘We Lose Pieces Bigger Than What You Fly’: A Valkyrie Pilot’s Response to a YF-12 Pilot Bragging About Mach 3 Hours Is the Best...
F-14 Pilots Were Forced to ‘Fly the Engine’ — Managing Throttle Inputs Carefully Instead of Fighting the Enemy The iconic F-14 Tomcat evolved into...
