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Is the Russian Military Done? Key Points and Summary: A RAND Corporation study outlines four scenarios for Russia’s post-Ukraine war military: Shoigu’s legacy plan,...
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For all the talk of spending targets, the Ankara NATO summit's real work happened elsewhere. Europe is being handed responsibility for NATO's conventional defense...
Western analysts fixate on North Korea's missiles. The real danger is speed — a mass artillery-and-missile salvo in the war's first hours, backed by...
The second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
For years, South Korea's KF-21 Boramae looked like a fighter no one would buy. Now four nations are in talks, drawn by near-stealth capability...
Poland's purchase of up to 1,000 K2 tanks made it Western Europe's heaviest armored power — but the real prize was written into the...
The U.S. Air Force has quietly outfitted the B-2 Spirit to carry the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile, reportedly up to 16 of them. It is...
France is offering precisely what fighter buyers want: a proven, combat-tested, continuously improving fighter that answers to no one but its owner. That's the...
A single Ukrainian drone forced Russia's largest refinery, in Omsk, to halt operations, knocking out units that make roughly 75 percent of its output...
Iran is moving to charge ships for passing through the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway that carries a fifth of the world's oil...
A film celebrating ten years of China's Y-20 transport slipped in something no other country has shown on official camera: a sixth-generation fighter refueling...
A decade after it surfaced, China's H-20 has no flying prototype and no production line. The reasons are industrial, not financial: an intercontinental flying...
National security expert James Jay Carafano argues that although the fighting grinds on, the war in Ukraine is strategically over — and Putin has...
President Trump arrived at the NATO summit in Ankara and threatened to withdraw substantial U.S. forces from Europe unless Denmark softens its grip on...
Cheap drones can make a Chinese assault on Taiwan bloodier and a quick victory less likely — but they don't repeal geography or remove...
The expectation that cutting U.S. aid would force Ukraine to fold is dead: Russia cannot win this war without a mass mobilization or nuclear...
Last year North Korea's newest destroyer rolled over at its own launch, and the world assumed the program was finished for years. Instead Pyongyang...
The KN-23, North Korea's version the Russian Iskander missile, showed up to fight in the Ukraine war. And it isn't the same platform as...
On May 21, 2025, a brand-new North Korean destroyer rolled over and partially capsized at its own launch ceremony — with Kim Jong Un...
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...
Is the Russian Military Done? Key Points and Summary: A RAND Corporation study outlines four scenarios for Russia’s post-Ukraine war military: Shoigu’s legacy plan,...
Key Points and Summary: Israel’s late-October 2024 airstrike on Iran’s Talegahn 2 facility near Tehran has dealt a severe blow to the Islamic Republic’s...
Key Points and Summary: Russia’s Su-57 Felon, touted as a fifth-generation stealth fighter, has struggled to find international buyers. -High production and maintenance costs,...
What You Need to Know: The F-22 Raptor, known for its stealth and speed, was once considered for carrier operations as the “Sea Raptor.”...
Key Points: The Iowa-class battleships, the last and largest battleships built by the U.S. Navy, played a crucial role during the Korean War. -Reactivated...
