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The most remarkable thing the YF-12A ever did was not the speed record. In the mid-1960s a YF-12 travelling at Mach 3.2 and 75,000...
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Sabotage at Leipzig, Swindon, and Skarżysko-Kamienna. A curfew across the river from Narva. New garrisons at Petrozavodsk, Lupche-Savino, and Pechenga pointing at Finland's 830-mile...
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...
On April 10, 1963, the world’s most advanced submarine told the rescue ship USS Skylark it was having “minor difficulties,” tried to blow ballast,...
USS Scorpion (SSN-589) sent its last message on May 21, 1968, and never made Norfolk. A Court of Inquiry’s “most likely” cause, an “explosion...
On the night of February 3, 2009, two nuclear ballistic missile submarines, Britain’s HMS Vanguard and France’s Le Triomphant, each carrying 16 missiles and...
At 10:52 a.m. on July 29, 1967, an electrical fault fired a Zuni rocket across the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal...
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...
Nine months after Riyadh gutted Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council, the Houthis took the port of Mokha on the Bab el-Mandeb, then struck King Khalid...
The rial has hit 2.5 million to the dollar, inflation is projected near 69 percent, and Iranian oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz...
Twenty-five years on, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the US mistook quiet for peace. A RAND strategist argues it is doing...
The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies have all warned of an escalating Russian gray...
President Trump says he gets along with Kim Jong Un and wants a new summit before the end of 2026, along with smaller US-South...
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...
The most remarkable thing the YF-12A ever did was not the speed record. In the mid-1960s a YF-12 travelling at Mach 3.2 and 75,000...
On July 21, 1921, Brigadier General Billy Mitchell sank the captured German battleship Ostfriesland with bombs dropped from aircraft, and the age of the...
Iran does not yet have a reconnaissance-strike complex capable of putting a US Navy aircraft carrier battlegroup in serious danger. Finding warships, tracking them,...
When the Soviet Union broke up, Moldova found itself with 34 MiG-29 Fulcrums and no money to maintain them, no pilots to spare and...
Glock's model numbers confuse people for good reason. The Glock 17 is named partly for Gaston Glock's seventeenth patent and partly for its 17-round...
