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Eighty years ago the Imperial Japanese Navy pulled off an astonishing feat of arms, pummeling the U.S. Navy battle line moored at Pearl Harbor....
In Congressional testimony earlier this week, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell strongly intimated that at its next meeting the Fed was likely to announce...
Zircon, What We Know About Russia’s New Hypersonic Missile: The Russian military announced the successful test of an anti-ship hypersonic missile that could prove...
Wars are about seizing and holding territory. This is true even for insurgencies such as the ones in Afghanistan and Vietnam. The greatest geostrategic...
Not long ago I watched a remarkable film titled Only the Brave. Someone mentioned it online, and it’s a firefighting movie. I’m a sucker...
What do Russians want? Moscow seems to be going out of its way to keep its “near abroad”—Russian-speak for the erstwhile Soviet empire, in...
So the Pentagon released its latest report on Chinese military power this week, under the splashy title Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s...
NHK reports that China stands ready to ink a Code of Conduct for the South China Sea. Do tell. At this month’s (online) 24th...
Russia’s TOS-1, a 3 Minute Explainer: Burn Baby Burn. And I don’t mean that in a good way. Russian TOS-1 Buratino and TOS-1A Solntsepek...
Javelin Anti-tank System: Enough for Ukraine Against the Russians?: Need to reach out and touch an enemy tank and send it to an early...
X-40A: A Trailblazing Experimental Aircraft that Paved the Way for the Mini-Space Shuttle- After the space shuttle retired, it looked like it was the...
Russia’s Poseidon Nuclear Torpedo – A Real Threat To America or Just More Hype? When someone says torpedo you usually think of a high-explosive...
Inflation in 2021, How It Works and What Policymakers Can Do About It: Starting with the April 2021 release, virtually every monthly Consumer Price Index...
John Maynard Keynes famously said that “when the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do sir?”. Today with widespread reports of...
President Joe Biden has done the right thing to resist strong pressure from the Democratic Party’s progressive wing to replace Jerome Powell as head...
In 2009, when asked why Citibank kept lending aggressively on the eve of the US housing and credit market bust, Chuck Prince famously said...
The current crisis in Ethiopia predates Joe Biden’s presidency by a couple months but, to Biden’s credit, he wasted little time in seeking diplomatically...
According to a U.S. official who spoke to the Washington Post, Russia plans to invade Ukraine as soon as January. For the past few weeks,...
Indirect talks between the United States and Iran resumed this week in Vienna with world powers eager to find out if the Islamic Republic...
While Russia continues its aggressive maneuvers on the border with Ukraine, the U.S. is demanding answers from Moscow. U.S. Department of Defense officials and...
The people of Taiwan have been living in a parallel world since June 2020, with the island recording more than 250 consecutive days without any domestic...
As Cato has long pointed out, the law takes a paradoxical stance toward so‐called “off‐label” use of drugs approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration...
There’s clearly an open divide in the United States between those who are vaccinated and those who are not. But among those who are,...
Over the past year, most Americans already have received three stimulus checks in total—with the latest payments amounting to more than $400 billion approved...
Canada may send additional troops and jet fighters to Ukraine in a bid to deter a possible Russian invasion. “Two sources with knowledge of...
What does it mean to say that the United States suffers from an “Imperial Presidency Problem?” For at least the last fifty years, it...
The acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse has divided the nation—again. Not that the nation needed any dividing. But politicians and the press can’t resist a...
European leaders may well be victims of their own success. Having incessantly drawn the world’s attention to the problem of climate change, the world...
Let me state up front that I want peace on the Korean peninsula, and I think all Koreans and Americans want peace. The question...
Over the difficult past year and a half amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Congress has approved the delivery of three stimulus checks to most...
Kim Jong-un, Chairman, General Secretary, and Supreme Leader of North Korea, no longer looks the part of “Fatty Kim,” as he once was insulted...
Amid calls for increasing dialogue with Pyongyang from both Washington and Seoul, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un continues ratcheting up the pressure with...
The US Air Force is getting new technology that will make it easier for its fighter pilots, especially female pilots, to urinate in flight,...
Russia’s Sukhoi Su-57 is one of only four operational 5th generation fighters anywhere on the planet, keeping the rare company of China’s Chengdu J-20...
Coaxing the X-37B Space Plan Out of the Shadows: The first thing many observers notice about the X-37B unmanned and autonomous space plane is...
X-15 Hypersonic Plane Knifed Through the Sky: Was this a flying knife? It sure looked like one. The X-15 super plane cut through the...
Russia has deployed its first regular unit of Terminator combat support tanks. The first Terminator company – equipped with nine BMPT-72s – was assigned...
