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At the meeting of G7 foreign ministers and EU officials held in Quebec on March 12-14. The foreign minister of Germany, Annalena Baerbock, emphasized...
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German Foreign Minister Wadephul's fourth Kyiv visit — two days before Ukraine's Independence Day — capped an accelerating shift: Berlin is becoming Ukraine's principal...
The Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative emerged from US Army Europe and Africa and NATO's Allied Land Command as a concept for restoring deterrence by...
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...
General John T. Thompson wanted a lightweight automatic weapon that could clear a trench at close range - something between a pistol and a...
Underneath the wood stock, the Ruger Mini-14 is a shrunken M14 - and the M14 was a descendant of the M1 Garand that carried...
The MQ-25A Stingray will launch from an aircraft carrier, loaded with aviation fuel, and rendezvous with other Navy planes to transfer fuel to them...
Roughly a thousand miles from any ocean, in the Taklamakan Desert near Ruoqiang, the People's Liberation Army has built replicas of the United States...
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...
Rezaei's threat goes beyond the strait: no oil leaving the Gulf by any route if neighbors cooperate. In practice that would mean strikes on...
Of the 1.5 billion barrels in emergency stocks, the IEA cannot order the commercial half released, leaving governments under a billion. The American reserve...
The Houthis have no warships. It doesn't need any. A blockade holds if shipowners and insurers decide the passage is not worth the risk,...
Speaking in Baghdad on August 20, Iran's parliament speaker warned that military power counts for nothing if the people are hungry. Four days later...
American forces struck Iranian positions preparing to fire mine-carrying missiles into the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran answered with a handful of missiles that reportedly...
Analysts dismissed American control of the Strait of Hormuz as a near-impossible task. The US government now says it has been helping tankers move...
Drones reached Moscow on three of the last five nights. A ballistic missile would not extend Ukraine's reach so much as compress Russia's warning...
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...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine since late 2023. The early shots missed by kilometers. Later ones did not. That combat...
Iran's Shahab-1 came from the Scud-B and reached 300km. The Khorramshahr, derived from North Korea's Musudan, reaches 2,000km — a 6.7-fold increase in reach.
At the meeting of G7 foreign ministers and EU officials held in Quebec on March 12-14. The foreign minister of Germany, Annalena Baerbock, emphasized...
Summary and Key Points: China is rapidly expanding its missile capabilities, including anti-ship and hypersonic glide vehicles, to deter or defeat U.S. Navy aircraft...
Summary and Key Points: Iranian-backed Houthi rebels launched drone and missile attacks against the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier strike group, but US fighters...
F-22 Raptor Fighter: Time to Retire? On Friday, President Trump confirmed that Boeing secured a contract to develop the US military’s Next Generation Air Dominance...
Summary and Key Points: Air Force General Anthony Cotton suggested at a defense conference that the U.S. Navy may need more than the currently...
