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Article Summary: The debate over Ukraine joining NATO is heating up. Supporters argue that Ukraine’s NATO membership would bolster European security, deter Russian expansion,...
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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...
HMS Prince of Wales displaces 65,000 tons, runs 920 feet, carries a flight deck of roughly 13,000 square metres, makes better than 25 knots...
Ten rounds in a pistol this thin was a genuine improvement over the 6-round Glock 43, and it is still behind the field. The...
The USS Abraham Lincoln is not an isolated case. The USS Gerald R. Ford was driven to its operational limits during the Iran War,...
HMS Westminster and HMS Argyll went into port for refits in 2022 and never came out. Britain could not crew them and its aircraft...
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.
Article Summary: The debate over Ukraine joining NATO is heating up. Supporters argue that Ukraine’s NATO membership would bolster European security, deter Russian expansion,...
Ever since the first Trump Administration, there has been a constant drumbeat that the former real estate development tycoon would use his now-second term...
Tax day, April 15, is still two months away, but nothing stops tax filers from filing their taxes early, and starting the clock for...
Hundreds of defense officials gathered in February for the 2025 Munich Security Conference. Government officials, policymakers, and defense experts discussed “global security challenges, including...
Article Summary: The U.S. Army’s M10 Booker assault gun is undergoing rigorous testing in Alaska’s freezing conditions and at Arizona’s Yuma Proving Ground. Designed...
