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Reports indicate that American short-range ballistic missile inventories have been nearly exhausted and Tomahawk stockpiles badly depleted during the war with Iran. Patriot interceptors...
A peace settlement would have to resolve occupied territory, Ukraine's relationship with the West and sanctions, and neither government is close enough to the...
On July 20, a China Coast Guard team in a small boat closed on Philippine sailors near Second Thomas Shoal and repeatedly struck one...
The United States has signed deals with Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to boost Patriot and THAAD production, The Independent reported, after weeks of...
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...
Western analysts fixate on North Korea's missiles. The real danger is speed — a mass artillery-and-missile salvo in the war's first hours, backed by...
The second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
Marines lost almost as many dead in 76 hours at Tarawa in November 1943 as American forces lost across the six-month Guadalcanal campaign. The...
When people think of American aircraft carriers, they usually think about one of the many nuclear-powered carriers that the Navy has built over the...
This was a dangerous test, as debris from the blast could have been spread to civilians on the ground. That is why the test...
HMS Daring entered extended maintenance in 2017 and spent roughly eight years out of operational service while engineers cut open her hull and fitted...
No vessel entered any of the three Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on Wednesday, the first such day since the grain corridor opened...
Oil futures are signaling that traders expect prices to fall over the coming months, despite the war and the disruption around Hormuz. The bet...
Ukraine's long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries have spread the fuel crisis into the countryside just as harvest begins, one analyst argues, with farmers...
Two tankers loaded with Saudi crude reversed course in the Red Sea — without being fired on — after the Houthis threatened any ship...
Ukraine on Tuesday executed a series of drone strikes on an industrial zone near Moscow, and across the whole country, strikes on three warehouses...
A cruise missile came down about 90 kilometers inside Poland and hurt no one. That incident will be logged and forgotten. The question underneath...
Getting to Somaliland used to be simple. Then Somaliland refused more than a quarter of a billion dollars to drop Taiwan, and the routes...
Zelensky met Raytheon executives in Kyiv, saying Ukraine is moving to co-produce Patriot missiles under plans he discussed with Trump — though waiting lists...
North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives...
Xi's first Pyongyang visit in seven years, a ratified Russia pact, and a declaration that the arsenal is permanent: Andrew Latham on why the...
Last year North Korea's newest destroyer rolled over at its own launch, and the world assumed the program was finished for years. Instead Pyongyang...
The KN-23, North Korea's version the Russian Iskander missile, showed up to fight in the Ukraine war. And it isn't the same platform as...
USS Independence aircraft carrier: Her long career was defined by constant deployments during the most heightened parts of the Cold War–like the Cuban Missile...
USS Coral Sea was the first Navy vessel to deploy an air wing built around the F/A-18 Hornet, and the first to fire the...
Operating from the Red Sea with CVW-17, Saratoga completed six transits of the Suez Canal and her air wing delivered 4,047,000 pounds of ordnance....
Philadelphia began building USS Illinois in January 1945 as the fifth Iowa-class battleship. The all-welded, 45,000-ton design would have carried nine 16-inch guns, but...
Shinano was commissioned on 19 November 1944 as the largest aircraft carrier ever built, displacing roughly 72,000 long tons on a converted Yamato-class hull....
