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Incoming US President Donald Trump suggested once again this week that the United States expand into Canada and Greenland. Trump has talked this up...
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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...
On July 1, U.S. Pacific Air Forces released its first-ever image of a combat drone flying beside a crewed fighter, an F-15EX over the...
In June 2025, the Government Accountability Office reported the Navy could not say whether it would ever field Boeing's Orca robot submarine, because no...
Reports this month say the single factory that builds every Russian Su-35 has finished the first 20 of 48 jets promised to Iran, and...
Every few weeks brings another strike on Russia's premier air defense system, and every few weeks the same dismissal: Russia builds S-400s faster than...
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...
Incoming US President Donald Trump suggested once again this week that the United States expand into Canada and Greenland. Trump has talked this up...
Key Points and Summary: The U.S. Air Force is exploring a revolutionary Blended-Wing Body (BWB) aircraft, which promises enhanced fuel efficiency, reduced carbon emissions,...
The United States and incoming President Donald Trump face a mess in Eastern Europe as the war in Ukraine continues to drag on into...
Key Points and Summary: The U.S. Army has canceled the development of the M1 Abrams SEPv4 tank, citing its inability to dominate the battlefield...
Key Points and Summary: As the Russo-Ukraine war enters its fourth year, Russia faces mounting challenges, including nearly 800,000 casualties and a declining economy...
