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The F-16 Was Designed as a Daytime Air Superiority Fighter — LANTIRN Targeting Pods and Precision Munitions Turned It Into an All-Weather Strike Platform...
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An Amphibious Assault on the Strait of Hormuz Won’t Look Like Iwo Jima — It’ll Come From the Air With F-35Bs, Ospreys, and 82nd...
U.S. Intelligence Says No Taiwan Invasion by 2027. Critics Say That’s Naive The subject of China’s plans to invade Taiwan provokes steady debate, and...
Operation Epic Fury Is Entering Its Fifth Week — Trump’s Iran War Timeline Aligns With the Pentagon’s Original Planning Window U.S. President Donald Trump...
11,000 Munitions Gone in a Month in the Iran War. Now, Imagine Fighting China If the United States cannot secure a clean victory over...
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 F-14 Tomcat Shot Down 5 Enemy Aircraft and Never Lost a Single Jet in Air-to-Air Combat Thanks to the blockbuster Top Gun film...
The Pentagon Called the F-111 a Failure — It Flew 4,000 Vietnam Missions, Bombed Gaddafi’s Libya, and Outperformed the A-10 in Desert Storm As...
The Type 004 Will Be Larger Than the USS Gerald R. Ford and Carry More Aircraft — China’s First Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Is Already...
The Iran War Proves the U.S. Air Force Needs All Three — An Upgraded F-22, the F-35 at Scale, and the F-47 Before the...
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...
Without Regime Change, the IRGC Will Rebuild — Russia and China Could Accelerate Iran’s Rearmament in Years The question of victory in Iran needs...
The 2023 NDAA Blocks Unilateral NATO Withdrawal Without a Two-Thirds Senate Vote — But a De Facto Exit Is Far More Feasible In April...
Forget Iran: China’s DF-21D and DF-26 Carrier-Killer Missiles Can Hold U.S. Surface Ships at Risk Beyond the First Island Chain More than a month...
Iran Can Never Be Allowed to Have Nuclear Weapons. America Must Keep Going When the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran broke out in late February,...
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 F-16 Was Designed as a Daytime Air Superiority Fighter — LANTIRN Targeting Pods and Precision Munitions Turned It Into an All-Weather Strike Platform...
19FortyFive Photographed the A-7 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson In academia (as well as the culinary world of...
D-21B: The SR-71 Blackbird’s Little Brother Was a Mach 3 Spy Drone — It Made Its Maiden Flight on the Same Day as the...
The Type 095 Has an X-Tail Rudder and Likely Pump-Jet Propulsor — Designed to Reduce Cavitation and Minimize Propeller Noise Recently published satellite imagery...
The A6M Zero Entered Service in Imperial Year 2600 — The Name Became So Famous Allied Pilots Applied It to Every Japanese Fighter There...
