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After Trump: Any Future President Except Possibly JD Vance Would Try to Rejoin NATO President Donald Trump is once again talking about abandoning NATO,...
Yes, Donald Trump Can’t Easily Leave NATO. But He Can Break It Trump told The Daily Telegraph this week that NATO is a “paper...
China’s PLA Is Drawing Taiwan War Lessons From Operation Epic Fury and the U.S.-Israeli Air Campaign Against Iran China desperately seeks unification with Taiwan....
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...
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 F-47 NGAD Stealth Fighter Won’t Win a War Against China The United States is fully committed to its sixth-generation warplane, the F-47. The...
Air Campaign Over Iran To End In 2-3 Weeks? Only If Goals Are Met President Donald Trump appeared on a national broadcast Wednesday night,...
The F-15EX Eagle II Wasn’t Built for Operation Epic Fury — It Was Built to Replace an Aging Fleet Before the F-47 Arrives The...
The Ukrainian 1st Assault Regiment Is Making Its American-Made M1A1 Abrams Tanks More “Drone-Proof” The American-made M1 Abrams is the most successful main battle...
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 Strait of Hormuz Energy Hostage Crisis Explained On March 31, Donald Trump said the war with Iran could end in “two weeks, maybe...
The British War in Iran That Trump Now May Be Replicating President Donald Trump continues the war in Iran as the Islamic Republic responds...
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...
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...
Shenyang Aerospace Copied the Su-27, Su-30, and Su-33 — Then Used Stolen F-35 Data to Build the J-35 Following the pattern set by Mikoyan...
F-35 Crashed In The Nevada Desert, Pilot Safely Ejected. That Doesn’t Mean This Stealth Fighter Is a Failure On Tuesday, about noon, a U.S....
A Failed AIP Test May Have Killed Every Sailor Aboard China’s Submarine 361 — And Beijing Will Never Admit It It was one of...
Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford 11-Month Deployment Rivals USS Nimitz’s 341-Day Record The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is expected to complete an...
China’s J-20 Fighter Is a Powerful Stealth Warplane Thanks to Missiles and New Weapons It Carries That The U.S. Air Force Would Be Hard-pressed...
