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The Iran War Proves the B-52 Bomber Isn’t Obsolete Yet You know things are going well in an air war when the B-52 Stratofortress...
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U.S. Intelligence Says No Taiwan Invasion by 2027. Critics Say That’s Naive The subject of China’s plans to invade Taiwan provokes steady debate, and...
Operation Epic Fury Is Entering Its Fifth Week — Trump’s Iran War Timeline Aligns With the Pentagon’s Original Planning Window U.S. President Donald Trump...
11,000 Munitions Gone in a Month in the Iran War. Now, Imagine Fighting China If the United States cannot secure a clean victory over...
The Memphis Belle World War Two Bomber Is Unforgettable This airplane is the pride of the Volunteer State. The B-17 bomber known as the...
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...
State Shipbuilding Chief Andrei Kostin Says the Admiral Kuznetsov Will Likely Be Sold or Scrapped In July 2025, Andrei Kostin, the chairman of Russia’s...
Northrop’s Tacit Blue Program And “The Whale” Stealth Plane History Has Forgotten About That We Got Up Close To The Tacit Blue program was...
The USS Gerald R. Ford Just Finished a Near-Record Deployment — Now It Needs F-35C Modifications, Deck Repairs, and a New Computer System The...
The U.S. Navy’s Shipyard Crisis May Lead to Its Defeat in War: Aircraft Carriers Prove It Few experts who have tracked the decline of...
The Iran War Is Now Becoming a Strait of Hormuz Showdown The war in Iran began just over a month ago, when the United...
The U.S. Air Force probably wouldn’t land on anyone’s list as a top-paying employer. However, learning a valuable skill in the Air Force—especially one...
The U.S. Navy Built 24 Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers. It Can’t Pull That Off Again The U.S. was able to build twenty-four Essex-class aircraft carriers...
From Chernobyl’s Reactor to DARPA’s Lab to the International Space Station: How a Fungus Became a Pentagon Priority Nearly 40 years ago, in April...
Iran Can Never Be Allowed to Have Nuclear Weapons. America Must Keep Going When the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran broke out in late February,...
Trump Said the Iran War Will Continue: We Have More Questions Than Answers After His Speech The world was on pins and needles waiting...
After Trump: Any Future President Except Possibly JD Vance Would Try to Rejoin NATO President Donald Trump is once again talking about abandoning NATO,...
Yes, Donald Trump Can’t Easily Leave NATO. But He Can Break It Trump told The Daily Telegraph this week that NATO is a “paper...
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 Iran War Proves the B-52 Bomber Isn’t Obsolete Yet You know things are going well in an air war when the B-52 Stratofortress...
Ukraine Sold the 60,000-Ton Varyag Aircraft Carrier for $20 Million to a Macau Company Run by Former PLA Officer Xu Zengping In 2012, the...
The B-58 Hustler Hit Mach 2 and Set 19 Speed Records — The Air Force Retired It After 10 Years and Kept the B-52...
The Lockheed YF-12 Hit Mach 3 and 80,257 Feet in 1965 — Then the Tet Offensive Ended Its Air Force Career In the 1960s,...
66 Flights, Mach 1.6, 20,000 Pounds of Internal Fuel — Boeing’s X-32 Stealth Fighter Had Everything Except Vertical Landing The Boeing X-32 was an...
