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Churchill called capital ships eggshells smiting one another with hammers, and Jutland, Pearl Harbor, and the Yamato proved him right. The Iowa-class battleships answered...
Conventional wisdom says Americans vote on domestic concerns and ignore the world abroad. Robert Kelly argues the 2026 midterms are breaking that rule: an...
Germany is studying whether to join GCAP, the sixth-generation fighter Britain, Japan and Italy launched in December 2022 for service by 2035, after its...
The Soviet Victor III attack submarine, introduced in 1979, was the first Soviet boat quiet enough to hide in the ocean’s background noise. As...
Putin’s proposal for a U.S.-China-Russia trilateral in China — with Ukraine and Europe excluded — has revived Beltway enthusiasm for a “Kissinger-in-reverse” bid to...
The Trump administration’s deal to allow Russian diesel into the United States blindsided Kyiv and Europe alike — halting peace talks, triggering threats to...
Sabotage at Leipzig, Swindon, and Skarżysko-Kamienna. A curfew across the river from Narva. New garrisons at Petrozavodsk, Lupche-Savino, and Pechenga pointing at Finland's 830-mile...
The Witkoff-Kushner shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv ended, predictably, without a breakthrough — and Andrew Michta argues the failure reveals something deeper than bad...
Canada bought four secondhand British Upholder-class submarines for $896 million in 1998 to avoid a submarine gap. Delivered between 2000 and 2004, the boats...
The Cavour is Italy’s purpose-built, conventionally powered STOVL aircraft carrier, the flagship of the Marina Militare, and a flexible national tool for Rome. Built...
Fifth-generation stealth fighters dominate air combat, but the Eurofighter consortium is hunting orders for more than 200 Typhoons, up from the 134 it expected...
After the collapse of the Future Combat Air System, France is pursuing a sixth-generation fighter on its own, with Dassault Aviation leading the Avion...
Four ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz Thursday against a 10-day average of 16. Iran said it hit tanker Trend on Friday. Brent is...
Jobs dropped out of Reed College and stayed on as what he called a "drop-in," sitting in on classes that interested him. One was...
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has,...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has unveiled Operation Economic Outcast: secondary sanctions across five sectors and more than sixty targets, with no relief attached. Iran's...
Dr. Robert Kelly, a professor of international relations at Pusan National University, argues the separation of powers in American foreign policy has nearly collapsed,...
Both sides would use a Ukraine war pause to rearm, and a longer pause may mean a bloodier spring. Michael Rubin argues Kyiv should...
For four and a half years the request was essentially a check, and the argument was that a properly supplied David could match Goliath....
Let Trump be Trump—which he will be anyway. Even if his peace efforts fail (which is entirely possible), American interests will be protected, and...
President Trump says he gets along with Kim Jong Un and wants a new summit before the end of 2026, along with smaller US-South...
Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...
American doctrine promises that any North Korean nuclear attack will end the Kim regime. The Iran war has just tested that assumption. The United...
Trump ordered Ulchi Freedom Shield cut from eleven days to five before Kim Jong-un had agreed to anything in return. Kim Yo-jong dismissed the...
Harrison Kass reads Patton’s most famous line, “The objective of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other poor...
Not every F-22 Raptor is available at any moment, so the number free for a contingency is substantially smaller than the inventory, and a...
A newly released photo shows China’s J-20 Mighty Dragon flying in ‘Beast Mode’ with eight PL-15 air-to-air missiles hung outside the airframe. The stealth...
The F-22 Raptor is one of the most capable fighters ever built, but its combat radius is only about 529 miles. Built for Europe,...
Britain unveiled the latest Challenger 3 prototype last month, a tank built on lessons from Ukraine, with a Leopard 2 smoothbore gun, Trophy active...
