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Bidenomics looks strong and reasonable. But in practice, Biden’s economic plan has had mixed results – depending upon who you ask.
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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...
At the end of its life, the fastest aircraft ever built was converted into a truck. From 1997 to 1998, NASA flew an SR-71...
The story racing around the internet says the Pentagon just launched a $627 million laser program. The reality is bigger and more interesting. On...
Russia is reportedly fielding a new T-72B3A equipped with the Arena-M active protection system. The upgrade targets missiles and FPV drones, though experts question...
Canada has spent its way off Washington's list of NATO deadbeats, praised by name in Ankara for a two-year, $215 billion surge. The number...
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...
Bidenomics looks strong and reasonable. But in practice, Biden’s economic plan has had mixed results – depending upon who you ask.
As the post-World War II rules-based order comes under the most serious assault since the Cold War, it is essential for Washington to have...
Earlier this week, hundreds of civilians were reportedly killed in an airstrike on a Gaza City hospital. Within minutes of the blast, Hamas and...
As the situation in Israel continues to deteriorate, the U.S. military is enhancing its military posture in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Hamas, Hezbollah, the PIJ, and other terrorist organizations have launched rocket and projectile barrages toward the Jewish state for years. Indeed, Israel’s Iron Dome...
