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"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone," begins a quote attributed to Douglas MacArthur, and few American generals tested that line harder....
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It had a programmable round that could airburst over an anti-tank team, AI targeting that warned a gunner he might be aiming at a...
Everyone obsesses over the endgame, Dr. James Jay Carafano writes, and the endgame of Operation Epic Fury is already known: Iran without a nuclear...
AUKUS is best known for promising Australia nuclear-powered submarines: rotating U.S. and UK boats, Virginia-class SSNs in the 2030s, then SSN-AUKUS. But U.S. yards...
On September 17, the State Department approved a possible foreign military sale of 48 F-35 Lightning II fighters to Saudi Arabia, a deal estimated...
The Witkoff-Kushner shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv ended, predictably, without a breakthrough — and Andrew Michta argues the failure reveals something deeper than bad...
German Foreign Minister Wadephul's fourth Kyiv visit — two days before Ukraine's Independence Day — capped an accelerating shift: Berlin is becoming Ukraine's principal...
The Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative emerged from US Army Europe and Africa and NATO's Allied Land Command as a concept for restoring deterrence by...
For all the talk of spending targets, the Ankara NATO summit's real work happened elsewhere. Europe is being handed responsibility for NATO's conventional defense...
Mike Walker designed the 721 and 722 after the war as a cheaper answer to Winchester's Model 70, and the 700 that came out...
The S&W M&P15 Sport III: The expensive things are already right: mid-length gas, a 15-inch free-float M-LOK handguard, a 5R barrel with a 1:8...
Japan could not out-build the United States and knew it, so it built one ship no American battleship could match: 863 feet, 72,000 tons,...
The Canik METE SFT runs 7.56 inches long and 27.8 ounces empty, with a 4.46-inch barrel — bigger than a Glock 19, smaller than...
Four ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz Thursday against a 10-day average of 16. Iran said it hit tanker Trend on Friday. Brent is...
Jobs dropped out of Reed College and stayed on as what he called a "drop-in," sitting in on classes that interested him. One was...
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has,...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has unveiled Operation Economic Outcast: secondary sanctions across five sectors and more than sixty targets, with no relief attached. Iran's...
Surely there is reluctance among a part of the Russian population – especially those living in major cities – to see their sons dragged...
Volodymyr Zelenskiy is set to meet with US President Donald Trump and discuss current and possible new initiatives aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
Almost all of the names are in their late forties to mid-fifties, and that is the point. Putin's own generation — men like FSB...
The Duma is a rubber-stamp parliament and United Russia is not going to lose it. The election still matters to Putin, for two reasons...
Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...
American doctrine promises that any North Korean nuclear attack will end the Kim regime. The Iran war has just tested that assumption. The United...
Trump ordered Ulchi Freedom Shield cut from eleven days to five before Kim Jong-un had agreed to anything in return. Kim Yo-jong dismissed the...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone," begins a quote attributed to Douglas MacArthur, and few American generals tested that line harder....
Hundreds of U.S. Army aviators lost their flying roles last year as the Army leaned into unmanned and autonomous aircraft, with junior pilots hit...
Baseball caps, boonie hats, limited black beret wear, and rank insignia on the collar may be coming to the U.S. Army, according to proposals...
On May 14, 1916, George Patton used three cars in a raid near San Miguelito and killed Julio Cardenas. In 1943 his Seventh Army...
Britain’s Challenger 3 is a new turret and L55A1 smoothbore on a lighter Challenger 2 hull. America’s M1A2 SEPv3 is decades of Abrams upgrades,...
