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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...
The United States is committed to its sixth-generation warplane, the Boeing F-47, and recent photos over Area 51 show what many believe to be...
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...
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...
My Editor asked: Some say the Glock 17 is the best overall semiauto in the world today. Do you agree or disagree?
Donald Trump’s remarks over the conflict between Israel and Palestine have caused a small but notable proportion of Republicans to side with President Joe...
Within the next five years or so, I believe Donald Trump will be one of the only humans in history to serve as a...
House Republicans are set to vote today on a new Speaker (Groundhog Day anyone?) later today and Jim Jordan is poised to take the...
Donald Trump has 59 percent Republican support in the primary contest, down from the previous week but still commanding.
