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In October 2010 a new British government decided its two future aircraft carriers would have catapults and arresting wires to fly the F-35C; in...
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Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...
Three diplomatic events in ten days — a Kremlin meeting with Witkoff and Kushner, an hour on the phone with Trump, and talk of...
Moving past the F-16: Every new-build fighter now scheduled for Ukraine is European. Twenty JAS-39E/F Gripens are on contract against a letter of intent...
In 2001 the People's Liberation Army fielded a handful of fourth-generation fighters, most bought from Russia or built under Russian licence. It was not...
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...
Britain wanted a long-range interceptor to replace the Jaguar. West Germany was drawing a delta-canard. France wanted a lightweight multi-role aircraft that could also...
The Super Redhawk borrows its trigger mechanism and grips from the GP100 and scales up everything else — extra steel where the frame takes...
SR-71 Blackbird 61-7978 wore white bunny logos on its tails and the nickname "Rapid Rabbit," and in 1972 it used up every ounce of...
Summary and Key Points: Taurus built the 66 Combat for carry rather than marketing it that way afterward. Bobbed hammer so nothing snags a...
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...
Rezaei's threat goes beyond the strait: no oil leaving the Gulf by any route if neighbors cooperate. In practice that would mean strikes on...
Russia's negotiating position has not shifted across eight visits to Moscow by Steve Witkoff, and Putin's precondition remains the whole of Donetsk oblast —...
Two shortfalls are converging on Ukraine before winter. The first is fiscal: a $27 billion defense funding gap, roughly $4 billion in European Union...
Michael Rubin's argument at 25 years is that almost nothing was learned. The hijackers were neither poor nor occupied, yet the assumption that grievance...
Twenty-five years on, the familiar verdict is that American intelligence agencies failed to warn. Lieutenant General Wallace "Chip" Gregson argues the failure was broader...
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...
Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine since late 2023. The early shots missed by kilometers. Later ones did not. That combat...
In October 2010 a new British government decided its two future aircraft carriers would have catapults and arresting wires to fly the F-35C; in...
Two NATO navies, two nuclear attack submarines, one argument. Britain's Astute class, built by BAE Systems at Barrow-in-Furness, displaces 7,800 tons, carries 38 weapons,...
Mattis joined the Marines in 1972 and commanded at every level over four decades — the 1st Marine Division into Iraq in 2003, I...
Smith & Wesson revived a name it had not used since 1955, when Bill Jordan talked the company into stretching a K-frame .38 into...
The F-35 Lightning II grew out of the Joint Strike Fighter program, a fighter designed from the start for export, and the F-35A entered...
