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China Is Watching: First F-35A Lightning II Stealth Fighter Aircraft Arrives in Japan The Pentagon announced Monday that the first F-35A Lightning II aircraft...
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China Is Watching: The AUKUS Submarine Deal Must Succeed A push began last summer, from some quarters of the Australian defense and national security...
Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen: The IDF’s New Offensive Doctrine After October 7 Isn’t Delivering Decisive Victories Israel is fighting a multi-front war in Iran...
The Ukraine War Is The First Drone War. And Kyiv Is Proving To Be a Drone Powerhouse No One Expected In retrospect, it is...
The F-22 Raptor Is Now Going to Go Into 2.0 Mode: The Best Fighter on Earth Gets Better We are reminded once again that...
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 A-12 Avenger II, The Navy’s Flying Dorito, Never Had a Chance to Shine The US Navy made history about ten years ago by...
Russia’s Su-57 Felon Stealth Fighter Is No Joke and Has Capabilities Mach 2 speeds, a stealthy configuration, and a range of more than 2,000...
Ford-Class: The USS John F. Kennedy Aircraft Carrier Is Coming Soon (Just Not Fast Enough) During his mere thousand days in the White House...
The U.S. Navy’s SSN Los Angeles-Class Submarine Will Be Very Hard to Replace At Scale: Russia and China are Taking Notes The Los Angeles-class...
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...
F-35 Stealth Fighter Is A Powerhouse: But a Labor Strike Is Now Possible Remember the Boeing F-15EX Eagle II Strike from last year? Could...
The War Between Russia and Ukraine Has Been a Disaster For Putin. But He Won’t Stop Now The Russia-Ukraine War is now entering its...
Why the Eurofighter Typhoon Is Still Selling in the Age of Stealth The Eurofighter Typhoon first entered service in the early 2000s, the product of a...
If Given a Decade, Could Iran Rearm and Rebuild its Military? What Will Beijing Do? U.S. and Israeli strikes have reportedly seriously degraded the...
92% of Iran’s Warships Destroyed, the IRGC Navy Commander Killed, and the Strait of Hormuz Still Closed: Why the April 6 Deadline Changes Everything...
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...
China Is Watching: First F-35A Lightning II Stealth Fighter Aircraft Arrives in Japan The Pentagon announced Monday that the first F-35A Lightning II aircraft...
Russia and China are Competiting with the U.S. Military To Build the Most Advanced Hypersonic Weapons You may be surprised to learn that the...
The U.S. Navy’s USS Enterprise Aircraft Carrier Was Hit with a Historic Fire. And Onboard a Nuclear Warship, That Is a Crisis Besides being...
Years ago, there was a decided and passionate push to “restart” the F-22 production line, an effort which was ultimately abandoned due to what...
Saab’s JAS 39 Gripen and F-35 Are Locked Into Drama over Canada Deal Canadian defense procurement remains at a crossroads. Saab still seems to...
