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Key Points: France’s donation of Mirage 2000-5F fighter jets to Ukraine is a significant boost for Kyiv’s air capabilities, but it comes with challenges....
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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...
In March 2026, France named its next carrier the France Libre and began building the most ambitious warship in European history, an 80,000-ton nuclear...
For most of a century the US and Canada have shared the longest undefended border on Earth. For part of that century, both capitals...
For years, Saab was Europe's outlier, the one major builder openly questioning whether the answer to the sixth-generation fighter was even a crewed jet,...
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...
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...
Key Points: France’s donation of Mirage 2000-5F fighter jets to Ukraine is a significant boost for Kyiv’s air capabilities, but it comes with challenges....
Key Points: The Russian T-14 Armata tank, touted as a next-generation game-changer, has proven to be an overhyped disappointment. With a price tag between...
Key Points: The Xian H-6 bomber, derived from the Soviet Tu-16, remains a cornerstone of China’s aerial arsenal despite its 1950s origins. -This nuclear-capable...
Key Points: The M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 is a highly advanced upgrade designed to ensure the tank’s relevance on the modern battlefield. Featuring explosive reactive...
Key Points: The German Leopard 2 tank, regarded as NATO’s premier European main battle tank, has faced challenges in its Ukrainian deployment. Despite its...
