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Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Ukraine’s armed forces have so far blended their Soviet-military tradition with an influx of Western methods and technologies. Time will tell whether that ongoing...

Politics

There may be additional long-term fallout from the Trump prosecution. While most legal claims against the Clinton and Biden families are regarded as specious...

Politics

Can Donald Trump Keep Indictment Outrage Going Into 2024? – Former President Donald Trump has the potential to turn the New York indictment, something...

Politics

Trump has never won the popular vote. He squeaked into the presidency via the Electoral College in 2016. He also has poor coattails. Trumpian...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

As a rule military folk do the bidding of political grandees out of duty and honor, agree or not. But military history implies that...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

The framework seems sound; now let’s see what substance the Pentagon and Biden administration hang on it. Last month the Joint Chiefs of Staff...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

This week I returned to the mothership for the first time in a dozen years, to take part in a conference at Vanderbilt University...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

Of late there’s been a lively discussion in the halls of U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I. (where I serve as the  J....

Smart Bombs

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

With this history, and the initial progress with ARRW, the Air Force likely plans to surge forward quickly with additional hypersonic weapons development. There...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

In January, the Russian forces launched a large-scale offensive in the Donbas. More than two-and-half months into the offensive and the Russian military has...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Russian propagandists have also uploaded footage of the drone kills, sometimes re-editing old clips to bolster the number of "successful strikes." In this case,...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

The Russian forces continue to lose men in Ukraine, though the rate of casualties has slowed down, reflecting the ebbing momentum of the Russian large-scale...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

A big part of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appeal to the Republican electorate in a presidential nominating contest is that he’s willing to go...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Yesterday’s decision by the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates by 25 basis points rather than by 50 basis points was the right decision under the...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

“Mr. Biden essentially embraced the progressive’s modern monetary theory, which admittedly became universal amid the pandemic, positing that the U.S. government could print and...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

America is Going to Default This Summer – Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wants to have a confab with President Joe Biden...

The Embassy

The Embassy

Earlier this month, Russia had lost some 21 tanks, 23 armored personnel carriers (APCs)/IFVs, and eight artillery systems in just a single week.

The Embassy

To counter China and Russia’s interests on the continent, the best way forward would be to guarantee free and fair elections in Liberia. Only...

The Embassy

The United States needs to get its domestic house in order; it cannot sweep the issues peaking in the Trump trial under the rug....

The Embassy

The Russian forces continue to bleed on the fields and cities of Ukraine. Bakhmut, in particular, has proven to be the graveyard of the Russian Wagner...

Coronavirus

Coronavirus Chaos

China’s dramatic shift from draconian restrictions to relaxed COVID-19 rules is likely to cause more economic disruptions than benefits. The poorly performing economy will...

Coronavirus Chaos

This was the year the word “tripledemic” entered the lexicon. That’s the term for the three different types of illnesses, COVID-19, flu, and RSV,...

Coronavirus Chaos

Perhaps as many as 90% of China’s 1.41 billion people will come down with COVID-19, said Feng Zijian, former deputy chief of China’s Center...

Coronavirus Chaos

A new virus has emerged in China and infected around 35 people, sparking concern that a new pandemic could be on the way. Scientists...

Politics News

Politics

Republicans have made an issue of the president’s mental competence since the 2020 presidential campaign. They continually question his cognitive abilities. 

Politics

Some of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ top donors and backers privately want him to bow out of the 2024 presidential election and wait until...

Politics

AOC is clearly the future of the Democratic Party and that should concern the rest of the country. She behaves as though she were...

Politics

Like so many things that Vice-President Kamala Harris has been asked to do by her nominal boss, President Biden, Harris’ Ghana excursion was a...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

In recent days it has been reported in the Chosun Ilbo (one of South Korea’s most widely read daily newspapers) that if North Korea...

Hermit Kingdom

North Korea’s Kim Yo-jong is at it again, making extreme threats. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Indo-Pacific commander, Adm. John Aquilino, reportedly said that...

Hermit Kingdom

On Thursday morning, North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the Yellow Sea just days after Kim Yo Jong, sister of leader Kim...

Hermit Kingdom

On March 6, Seoul announced a new plan for resolving the lingering dispute with Japan over compensation for South Koreans forced to labor for...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

If Joe Biden cannot walk a straight line when reviewing troops as he showed in Poland, how is he going to lead troops? This is a...