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President Yoon Suk-yeol’s political self-immolation has decapitated the South Korean government and enfeebled its alliance with Washington. Yoon has been impeached and will likely...
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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...
HMS Ambush is among the most advanced attack submarines ever built, a boat that can circle the planet without surfacing, whose official motto is...
In the summer of 2022, Lockheed Martin's HIMARS was a niche wheeled rocket launcher only artillery officers loved. Ukraine changed that in a matter...
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...
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...
President Yoon Suk-yeol’s political self-immolation has decapitated the South Korean government and enfeebled its alliance with Washington. Yoon has been impeached and will likely...
Key Points and Summary: Canada’s aging CF-18 fleet, acquired in the 1980s, showcases the Royal Canadian Air Force’s pressing need for modernization. Despite upgrades...
Key Points and Summary: The U.S. Navy’s Ford-class aircraft carriers, designed to replace the Nimitz-class, bring advanced technologies like EMALS and AAG to significantly...
Key Points and Summary: The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) faces crippling recruitment and retention problems, aging fleets, slow procurement, and infrastructure shortfalls. -Its...
Key Points and Summary: Russia’s tank losses in Ukraine, visually confirmed by Oryx, surpass 3,600, but raw numbers alone can mislead. -This “abacus fallacy”...
