Harry J. Kazianis

Harry J. Kazianis (@Grecianformula) is Editor-In-Chief of 19FortyFive and National Security Journal. Kazianis recently served as Senior Director of National Security Affairs at the Center for the National Interest. He also served as Executive Editor of its publishing arm, The National Interest. Kazianis has held various roles at The National Interest, including Senior Editor and Managing Editor over the last decade. Harry is a recognized expert on national security issues involving North & South Korea, China, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, and general U.S. foreign policy and national security challenges. Past Experience Kazianis previously served as part of the foreign policy team for the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Ted Cruz. Kazianis also managed the foreign policy communications efforts of the Heritage Foundation, served as Editor-In-Chief of the Tokyo-based The Diplomat magazine, Editor of RealClearDefense, and as a WSD-Handa Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS): PACNET. Kazianis has also held foreign policy fellowships at the Potomac Foundation and the University of Nottingham. Kazianis is the author of the book The Tao of A2/AD, an exploration of China’s military capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region. He has also authored several reports on U.S. military strategy in the Asia-Pacific as well as edited and co-authored a recent report on U.S.-Japan-Vietnam trilateral cooperation. Kazianis has provided expert commentary, over 900 op-eds, and analysis for many outlets, including The Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, Yonhap, The New York Times, Hankyoreh, The Washington Post, MSNBC, 1945, Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, USA Today, CNBC, Politico, The Financial Times, NBC, Slate, Reuters, AP, The Washington Examiner, The Washington Times, RollCall, RealClearPolitics, LA Times, Newsmax, BBC, Foreign Policy, The Hill, Fortune, Forbes, DefenseOne, Newsweek, NPR, Popular Mechanics, VOA, Yahoo News, National Security Journal and many others.

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy Bolted 32 Tomahawk Missiles Onto 58,000-Ton Iowa-Class Battleships. The Upgrade Took Their Reach From 24 Miles to 1,553.

The four 1980s Iowa-class warships fired 1,083 sixteen-inch shells in the Gulf War — 759 from Missouri, 324 from Wisconsin. Against $1.7 billion in...

Harry J. KazianisSeptember 11, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

Britain’s £1,000,000,000 Type 45 Destroyers Lose All Electrical Power When the Sea Is Warmer Than About 28 Degrees Celsius. The Persian Gulf Is Warmer Than That.

Britain planned 12 of these destroyers for around £7,000,000,000. It built 6 for about £6,460,000,000 — over £1,000,000,000 a ship, nearly the price of...

Harry J. KazianisSeptember 11, 2026

Typhoon-Class Submarine SSBN Soviet Navy

Aerospace & Defense

The Soviet Typhoon-Class Submarine Displaced 48,000 Tons, Carried Up to 200 Nuclear Warheads, and Had a Swimming Pool and a Sauna. It Could Stay Under the Arctic Ice for 120 Days.

Inside one outer casing sat five separate pressure hulls: two complete parallel main hulls side by side like a catamaran, plus three more for...

Harry J. KazianisSeptember 11, 2026

Shock blast detonated off the starboard side of USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), September 19, 1987. The test was conducted to demonstrate the carrier's ability to withstand underwater shock waves. US Navy photo.

Aerospace & Defense

A Dutch Diesel Submarine That Cost Less Than 1 of the Destroyers Guarding the Carrier “Sank” the US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and 7 Escort Warships in 1999. Then It Passed 1,500 Yards From the Carrier to Prove It Had Never Been Detected.

HNLMS Walrus was a 2,800-ton Dutch diesel boat costing somewhere between $340,000,000 and half a billion — less than one of the Aegis escorts...

Harry J. KazianisSeptember 10, 2026

The X-43A was a small experimental research aircraft designed to flight-demonstrate the technology of airframe-integrated supersonic ramjet or "scramjet" propulsion at hypersonic speeds above Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound. Its scramjet engine is an air-breathing engine in which the airflow through the engine remains supersonic.

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NASA Spent About $230,000,000 Over 8 Years and Flew the X-43A 3 Times. Its Scramjet Held Mach 9.68 for About 10 Seconds on 16 November 2004, and the Funding Ended Within Weeks — Before the Team Had Published the Results.

On 16 November 2004 a 12-foot NASA research aircraft separated from a booster at almost Mach 10 over the Pacific, lit a hydrogen-fueled scramjet,...

Harry J. KazianisSeptember 10, 2026

(Sept. 08, 2012) The forward deployed aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) sails through calm seas near Guam at sunset. George Washington is the centerpiece of Carrier Strike Group FIVE, the US Navy’s only continuously forward deployed carrier strike group, based out of Yokosuka, Japan. Carrier Strike Group FIVE is currently on a routine Western Pacific patrol. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Paul Kelly/ Released)

Aerospace & Defense

A Swedish Gotland-Class Diesel Submarine Worth About $100,000,000 Slipped Past an Entire US Navy Carrier Group and “Sank” the $5,500,000,000 Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Ronald Reagan.

The familiar version is that the US Navy was so embarrassed when a Swedish submarine reached a firing position on USS Ronald Reagan that...

Harry J. KazianisSeptember 10, 2026

US Army General George Patton Creative Commons Photo

Aerospace & Defense

Decades Later, US Army General George S. Patton’s Line on Defeat Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

"You're never beaten until you admit it." George S. Patton said it, and Sicily is where it was tested — two slapped soldiers in...

Harry J. KazianisSeptember 9, 2026

A-12 Avenger II Creative Commons Computer Mock Up from 2023

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy Fixed a Price on Stealth Technology Nobody Had Invented Yet, and the A-12 Avenger II Never Flew. 35 Years Later Boeing Lost $4,900,000,000 in a Single Year on the Same Kind of Contract.

Lockheed refused to bid. Northrop refused to bid, and told the Navy its cost estimate was at least $2,000,000,000 short. The contract fixed a...

Harry J. KazianisSeptember 9, 2026

SAN DIEGO, Ca. (Nov. 4, 2025) - The Medal of Honor awarded to Capt. Jacklyn Harold "Jack" Lucas, a U.S. Marine who became the youngest recipient of the distinction at age 17 during World War II, is displayed aboard the ship that received his namesake, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125). Jack H. Lucas is the first Flight III warship in the U.S. Navy, marking a significant evolution in surface force combatant capabilities. The mission of Commander, Naval Surface Force, Pacific Fleet is to man, train, and equip the Surface Force to provide fleet commanders with credible naval power to control the sea and project power ashore. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Sara L. Eshleman)

Aerospace & Defense

A Pentagon Review Panel Examined All 20 Medals of Honor Awarded for Wounded Knee in 1890. In September 2025 the Secretary of Defense Decided Every 1 of Them Stays, and Congress Is Still Trying to Take Them Back.

A question that has remained open for 135 years did not close in a social media video, and both sides know it. The massacre...

Harry J. KazianisSeptember 9, 2026

Vega Space Probe 19FortyFive Photo From Smithsonian Taken on June 30 2026

Space and Technology

In June 1985 Russia Flew 2 Balloons Through the Sulfuric Acid Clouds of Venus. They Rode 150-Mile-an-Hour Winds for 46 Hours and 11,600 Kilometers, and No Balloon Has Flown on Another Planet Since.

In June 1985 the Soviet Union released 2 balloons into the clouds of Venus. Each was 3.4 meters across, hung a 7-kilogram gondola from...

Harry J. KazianisSeptember 8, 2026

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The US Navy Bolted 32 Tomahawk Missiles Onto 58,000-Ton Iowa-Class Battleships. The Upgrade Took Their Reach From 24 Miles to 1,553.

Aerospace & Defense

Britain’s £1,000,000,000 Type 45 Destroyers Lose All Electrical Power When the Sea Is Warmer Than About 28 Degrees Celsius. The Persian Gulf Is Warmer Than That.

Aerospace & Defense

The Soviet Typhoon-Class Submarine Displaced 48,000 Tons, Carried Up to 200 Nuclear Warheads, and Had a Swimming Pool and a Sauna. It Could Stay Under the Arctic Ice for 120 Days.

Aerospace & Defense

A Dutch Diesel Submarine That Cost Less Than 1 of the Destroyers Guarding the Carrier “Sank” the US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and 7 Escort Warships in 1999. Then It Passed 1,500 Yards From the Carrier to Prove It Had Never Been Detected.

Aerospace & Defense

NASA Spent About $230,000,000 Over 8 Years and Flew the X-43A 3 Times. Its Scramjet Held Mach 9.68 for About 10 Seconds on 16 November 2004, and the Funding Ended Within Weeks — Before the Team Had Published the Results.

Aerospace & Defense

A Swedish Gotland-Class Diesel Submarine Worth About $100,000,000 Slipped Past an Entire US Navy Carrier Group and “Sank” the $5,500,000,000 Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Ronald Reagan.

Aerospace & Defense

Decades Later, US Army General George S. Patton’s Line on Defeat Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy Fixed a Price on Stealth Technology Nobody Had Invented Yet, and the A-12 Avenger II Never Flew. 35 Years Later Boeing Lost $4,900,000,000 in a Single Year on the Same Kind of Contract.

Aerospace & Defense

A Pentagon Review Panel Examined All 20 Medals of Honor Awarded for Wounded Knee in 1890. In September 2025 the Secretary of Defense Decided Every 1 of Them Stays, and Congress Is Still Trying to Take Them Back.

Space and Technology

In June 1985 Russia Flew 2 Balloons Through the Sulfuric Acid Clouds of Venus. They Rode 150-Mile-an-Hour Winds for 46 Hours and 11,600 Kilometers, and No Balloon Has Flown on Another Planet Since.

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