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Any US war with China would be expeditionary, fought at the end of long supply lines, while China would defend close to home with...

Aerospace & Defense

Gen. David Berger's reasoning was blunt: buy cheap, numerous systems instead of a few exquisite ones, and stop preparing for the grinding land wars...

The Embassy

The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies have all warned of an escalating Russian gray...

Aerospace & Defense

Twenty-nine years ago today, on September 25, 1997, Sukhoi's Su-47 Berkut made its first flight with wings swept forward instead of back. Carbon composites...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

The Witkoff-Kushner shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv ended, predictably, without a breakthrough — and Andrew Michta argues the failure reveals something deeper than bad...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Aerospace & Defense

Aerospace & Defense

Block IV Virginias are built to carry America's special operators as well as missiles. A large integrated lockout chamber and the torpedo room's design...

Aerospace & Defense

The Fairey Swordfish first flew in 1934 and joined the Fleet Air Arm in 1936, and by 1941 it looked like an antique: a...

Aerospace & Defense

By 1968, North Vietnam had grown extremely proficient at defending its airspace against American warplanes, so the Navy turned to a platform Hanoi would...

Aerospace & Defense

In the 1980s, Washington and Moscow both set out to build a new generation of attack submarines. The U.S. planned 29 Seawolf-class boats, built...

Trillions

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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...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

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...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

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...

The Embassy

The Embassy

Surely there is reluctance among a part of the Russian population – especially those living in major cities – to see their sons dragged...

The Embassy

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.

The Embassy

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 Embassy

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...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...

Hermit Kingdom

American doctrine promises that any North Korean nuclear attack will end the Kim regime. The Iran war has just tested that assumption. The United...

Hermit Kingdom

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...

Hermit Kingdom

As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...

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