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Aerospace & Defense

Dr. James Holmes, the last gunnery officer to fire a battleship's guns in anger, recalls USS Wisconsin's 1988 return from mothballs: parts scavenged from...

Aerospace & Defense

Iran and Russia have both demonstrated that a mediocre power can absorb enormous punishment without surrendering, and that doing so buys almost nothing strategically....

Aerospace & Defense

Reagan's AWACS package looked inflated in 1981 and nobody explained why. Nine years later, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, American forces flew into Saudi air...

Aerospace & Defense

The Navy commissioned USS Cleveland, the sixteenth and last Freedom-class littoral combat ship, on May 16. Ten weeks later it decommissioned USS Fort Worth...

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

The Army wanted mobile firepower for its infantry brigades without the logistical burden of a 70-ton Abrams. What it got was a vehicle too...

Aerospace & Defense

China's J-10 fighter might not have stealth technology like the F-22, F-35 or even Beijing's own J-20 Mighty Dragon, and yet, the J-10 keeps...

Aerospace & Defense

President Trump's was against Iran hasn't gone the way he clearly wanted and he will need to decide soon what to do next. The...

Aerospace & Defense

Eisenhower had enormous formal authority and believed cooperation could not be ordered into existence. He described leadership instead as persuasion, conciliation, education and patience.

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

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...

The Embassy

On the morning of September 14, a Russian drone exploded beside a train carrying delegates home from the Yalta European Strategy summit, about 1.2...

The Embassy

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 —...

The Embassy

Two shortfalls are converging on Ukraine before winter. The first is fiscal: a $27 billion defense funding gap, roughly $4 billion in European Union...

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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