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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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Iran Doesn’t Need to Win the War — It Just Needs to Keep the Strait of Hormuz Closed Long Enough for Americans to Turn...
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...
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...
The X-32 Was Mocked for Its Looks and Forgotten After It Lost The X-32 Sits Collecting Dust in 2 Museums – It Was No...
The B-52 Was Vulnerable at High Altitude and Soviet SAMs Were Improving — The Air Force Needed a Bomber That Could Fly Fast and...
