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The AUKUS partnership between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia stands as one of the most consequential defense agreements of the 21st...
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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...
Each cut made the next one cheaper to justify. Fewer airframes meant a higher unit price, a higher unit price meant fewer airframes, and...
Everything that makes the Glock 20 good in the woods makes it bad in a city. It is 8.07 inches long and 5.51 inches...
The F-22 Raptor carries an internal 20mm M61A2 Vulcan rotary cannon with 480 rounds. The F-35A carries a 25mm GAU-22/A with 181. The Chengdu...
The strongest argument for the Glock 26 has nothing to do with the gun itself. It is that a shooter who trains on a...
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.
The AUKUS partnership between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia stands as one of the most consequential defense agreements of the 21st...
Key Points and Summary: Trump’s new tariffs could deliver a major blow to Canada’s defense industry, a critical supplier for the U.S. military. Canadian...
This month is the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The war has bogged down into a stalemate. Russia can make incremental...
Article Summary: China’s growing arsenal of anti-ship missiles, including the DF-26 and DF-21, poses a significant threat to U.S. aircraft carriers operating in the...
Article Summary: During World War II, Northrop designed the XP-79 “Flying Ram,” a jet-powered interceptor meant to destroy enemy bombers by ramming through them....
