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The U.S. Can Destroy Targets in Iran All Day — It Can’t Control the Strait of Hormuz Is America getting ready to quit the...
The F-47 NGAD Stealth Fighter Might Not Be Built In the Numbers Needed The debate over the F-47 keeps getting stuck on the wrong...
The Iran War Is Now All About Who Controls the Strait of Hormuz Clausewitz understood that wars have a way of outgrowing the aims...
The British War in Iran That Trump Now May Be Replicating President Donald Trump continues the war in Iran as the Islamic Republic responds...
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...
The FCAS Fighter Will Soon Move Forward Or End Up Being a Historical Footnote Dassault Aviation CEO Eric Trappier has given Europe’s most ambitious...
The U.S. Navy Might Soon Be Sending Another Aircraft Carrier to the Middle East: Iran Might Be the Target The George H. W. Bush...
The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-Class Battleships Fought from WWII All the Way to the First Gulf War The Iowa-class battleships are some of the most...
The F-35 Stealth Fighter Debate Is Now Stuck in Neutral in Canada Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is refusing to say whether his country...
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...
The War Between Russia and Ukraine Has Been a Disaster For Putin. But He Won’t Stop Now The Russia-Ukraine War is now entering its...
Why the Eurofighter Typhoon Is Still Selling in the Age of Stealth The Eurofighter Typhoon first entered service in the early 2000s, the product of a...
If Given a Decade, Could Iran Rearm and Rebuild its Military? What Will Beijing Do? U.S. and Israeli strikes have reportedly seriously degraded the...
92% of Iran’s Warships Destroyed, the IRGC Navy Commander Killed, and the Strait of Hormuz Still Closed: Why the April 6 Deadline Changes Everything...
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...
Russia’s MiG-31 Can Hit over Mach 3 and Now Fires Hypersonic Missiles Russia’s MiG-31 is one of the most iconic warplanes in the world....
Meet the Navy’s Newest Virginia-Class Submarine, USS Massachusetts (SSN-798) The U.S. Navy officially welcomed its newest Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine over the past weekend....
China’s J-20 vs. F-22 Raptor: Which Fighter Would Win If They Went Toe-to-Toe As China’s much-discussed yet still somewhat mysterious J-20 blasts more fully...
The U.S. Navy Has a Shipbuilding Crisis. China Plans to Take Full Advantage Of It The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is a highly...
The U.S. Navy Has A Clear Problem: Not Enough Aircraft Carriers As China Builds More Supercarriers The U.S. Navy currently operates with 11 aircraft...
