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The P-47 Was Called the ‘Flying Bathtub’ and Weighed 10,000 Pounds Empty — It Still Shot Down 20 of Hitler’s Messerschmitt 262 Jets This...
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The Biggest Intelligence Failure of the Iran War? Underestimating Iran’s Missiles An Iranian missile hit an apartment building in Haifa, Israel, killing four people....
Trump Hoped for Venezuela — A Quick Decapitation Strike That Ended the Regime Overnight. Iran Didn’t Break. The Iran War has become a stalemate....
The Madman Strategy: Trump May Be Leveraging His Unpredictability to Frighten Iran Into a Ceasefire On Tuesday morning, President Trump declared that if Iran...
Closure of Strait of Hormuz? Solve the Problem with New Pipelines: Saudi Arabia Is Already Doing It The ease with which Iran has closed...
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...
Can the U.S. Air Force Afford Sixth-Generation F-47 NGAD? The F-47 NGAD will eventually be produced, and it will be an impressive aircraft. Featuring...
The U.S. Has Fired 850 Tomahawks at Iran in 5 Weeks — That’s 25% of the Entire Stockpile and the Factories Only Build 90...
Iran’s Missile Attacks Have Dropped 90% Since the War Began — U.S. Intelligence Still Can’t Say How Many Are Hidden in Underground Missile Cities...
‘The Soldier Is the Army’: George Patton Believed an Army’s Strength Is Determined Solely by the Discipline, Training, and Courage of Its Individual Soldiers...
The U.S. Army Expanded the Reenlistment Window From 90 Days to 2 Years for Soldiers Deployed in Operation Epic Fury The U.S. Army announced...
The Strait of Hormuz Carries 20% of the World’s Oil — The Strait of Malacca Carries $3.5 Trillion in Annual Trade and One-Third of...
The U.S. Military Could Force Ships Through the Strait of Hormuz — It Can’t Make Insurers, Shippers, or Energy Markets Believe It’s Safe On...
The Iran War Is Now Becoming a Strait of Hormuz Showdown The war in Iran began just over a month ago, when the United...
Kharg Island Is 400 Miles From the Strait. Taking It Won’t Open Hormuz. Trump May Try Anyway. Given President Donald J. Trump’s recent, increasingly...
Iran War: The Missiles Keep Coming. The Strait Stays Closed. Something Has to Change. More than a month since the beginning of Operation Epic...
Iran Rejected the 45-Day Ceasefire — ‘We Only Accept an End to the War With Guarantees We Won’t Be Attacked Again’ On the most...
The Houthis Held Back for 5 Weeks — They’re Running a Calibrated Escalation Strategy Designed by Iran for Maximum Leverage The Yemen-based, Iran-backed Houthis...
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 P-47 Was Called the ‘Flying Bathtub’ and Weighed 10,000 Pounds Empty — It Still Shot Down 20 of Hitler’s Messerschmitt 262 Jets This...
The SR-71 Blackbird’s Real Speed Limit Was 427°C at the Compressor Face — Pratt & Whitney Wouldn’t Guarantee the J58 Engines Past That Temperature...
One Iranian Drone Strike at a Saudi Arabian Base Damaged 5 KC-135 Tankers — 8 Have Been Damaged or Destroyed Since the Iran War...
General George Patton Built the American Tank Corps in WWI and Wrote the Doctrine for Massed Armor — Then Led the First U.S. Tank...
The Geography of the Strait of Hormuz Favors Iran — 21 Miles Wide, Within Range of Coastal Defenses, and Covered by Nearby Iranian Islands...
