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The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is over 50 years old and on its third ‘final’ voyage. The Navy keeps canceling the retirement because the...
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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,...
Will Donald Trump Pull the United States Out of NATO? As the world focused on a tenuous ceasefire in the Middle East between the...
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...
The entire U.S. stealth bomber fleet is 19 aircraft. The Iran war nearly used them all — and that was just one conflict against...
China ran a computer simulation of its best stealth fighter against America’s best — and gave its own jet deliberately worse specs. With drones...
The Air Force just permanently stationed its most advanced fighter in northern Japan, closer to China than ever before. There’s one problem — Taiwan...
Twenty-three Russian sailors survived the explosion that sank the Oscar-class nuclear submarine Kursk and waited at the bottom of the Barents Sea for a...
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...
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...
Trump’s Neville Chamberlain Moment on Iran? President Donald Trump has agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran. Declaring the United States had already achieved...
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...
The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is over 50 years old and on its third ‘final’ voyage. The Navy keeps canceling the retirement because the...
Eurofighter Typhoon German pilots claimed they had ‘Raptor salad for lunch‘ after shooting down F-22s in a training exercise. Their own after-action report told...
Trump declared ‘total and complete victory’ over Iran. Russia’s newspapers are laughing, China brokered the deal he couldn’t, and the U.S. burned through 18...
The U.S. Army has spent 40 years and five failed programs trying to replace the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. It just opened the competition to...
The SR-71 Blackbird was the fastest plane ever built, but it was never allowed to carry a weapon. Lockheed wanted to change that —...
