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Key Points and Summary: The Arctic is rapidly becoming a stage for global competition, with melting ice opening shipping routes and resource opportunities. Canada,...
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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...
In early 2026, both of Britain's carriers were tied up in port, none of the Royal Navy's attack submarines could put to sea, only...
The U.S. Navy is retiring its last seven Ticonderoga-class cruisers by 2030, ending a decades-long era of missile-heavy carrier escorts. A $3.7 billion modernization...
In 1944, before night vision or GPS, the Northrop P-61 Black Widow hunted enemy bombers in total darkness. It was the first American combat...
A submarine crew of roughly 130 spends months beneath the ocean's surface in a narrow, windowless vessel, with no sunlight, limited communication, and no...
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...
Key Points and Summary: The Arctic is rapidly becoming a stage for global competition, with melting ice opening shipping routes and resource opportunities. Canada,...
Key Points and Summary: Ukraine’s survival against Russia hinges on consistent U.S. military aid. With artillery use at 6,000 shells daily and constant equipment...
Key Points and Summary: A new era of warfare is unfolding in Ukraine, where small drones dominate the skies in battles reminiscent of WWI’s...
Nascent great power China is seeking greater strategic influence within its neighborhood. Although Beijing attempts to cloak its agenda with benevolent-sounding gobbledygook such as...
Key Points and Summary: In 1997, the United States secretly bought 21 MiG-29 fighter jets from Moldova to prevent their sale to Iran, which...
