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The SR-71 Blackbird was never known for its gas mileage: at Mach 3 cruise it could burn some 8,000 gallons of fuel an hour,...
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The Witkoff-Kushner shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv ended, predictably, without a breakthrough — and Andrew Michta argues the failure reveals something deeper than bad...
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...
By 2010 a platoon leader in Iraq answered the question of how he spent his time with three words: making PowerPoint slides. Junior officers...
The theory was sound: lose weight, gain speed and climb rate, force the missile's guidance to recalculate. So a crew tried it in 1968...
The F-14 'Super' Tomcat would have had increased range thanks to new engines. And yet, no stealth and high cost ended that dream.
The mission was supposed to launch in daylight. Water was over Graves' ankles on the ramp at Ubon, so Killer flight went at 11pm...
Four ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz Thursday against a 10-day average of 16. Iran said it hit tanker Trend on Friday. Brent is...
Jobs dropped out of Reed College and stayed on as what he called a "drop-in," sitting in on classes that interested him. One was...
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has,...
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...
Almost all of the names are in their late forties to mid-fifties, and that is the point. Putin's own generation — men like FSB...
The Duma is a rubber-stamp parliament and United Russia is not going to lose it. The election still matters to Putin, for two reasons...
On the morning of September 14, a Russian drone exploded beside a train carrying delegates home from the Yalta European Strategy summit, about 1.2...
Russia's negotiating position has not shifted across eight visits to Moscow by Steve Witkoff, and Putin's precondition remains the whole of Donetsk oblast —...
Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...
American doctrine promises that any North Korean nuclear attack will end the Kim regime. The Iran war has just tested that assumption. The United...
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...
The SR-71 Blackbird was never known for its gas mileage: at Mach 3 cruise it could burn some 8,000 gallons of fuel an hour,...
On September 16 the combat flight game War Thunder added the F-16XL as the headline aircraft of a new event, a jet only two...
Throughout the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in an undersea arms race to develop stealthier and deadlier submarines....
Saudi Arabia looks like it could fly the F-35 stealth fighter. Israel could demand to stay ahead, and that can only mean the Boeing...
Taiwan operates four diesel-electric submarines, two of them American GUPPY boats originally built during the Second World War. The Hai Kun class, Taiwan's first...
