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Imperial Japan guessed poorly at Pearl Harbor. It misjudged the impact of its actions on a peacetime strategic competitor, made a foe of that...
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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...
Taiwan's army has begun its 2026 Shen Gong live-fire exercise, with particular emphasis on the US-supplied FIM-92 Stinger, fired from four different launch platforms...
Canada hit NATO's 2 percent target five years early and plans to triple defense spending toward $900 billion — a rearmament triggered by a...
Canada's chosen Type 212CD is engineered to vanish — a stealth-fighter-faceted hull, steel that barely registers on magnetic detectors, and weeks submerged on fuel...
For four decades the CF-18 Hornet has been the backbone of the Royal Canadian Air Force, and it is now worn out and running...
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...
Imperial Japan guessed poorly at Pearl Harbor. It misjudged the impact of its actions on a peacetime strategic competitor, made a foe of that...
Key Points: Ukraine has received F-16 Vipers, marking a significant milestone in its defense against Russia. These advanced jets, initially supplied by Denmark and...
Key Points: The rise of hypersonic weapons—capable of speeds exceeding Mach 5 with extreme maneuverability—marks a seismic shift in warfare. -ADM James A. Winnefeld...
Key Points: Guam is central to U.S. strategy in East Asia but remains vulnerable to China’s extensive missile arsenal, including DF-26 “Guam Killer” ballistic...
Key Points: A viral social media post by an X user captured a Japanese hypersonic missile system, the Hyper-Velocity Sliding Projectile, being transported on...
