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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...
China's Type 100 stunned analysts at Beijing's Victory Day parade last September, an unmanned-turret, hybrid-electric tank built for the drone age. Ten months later...
Every debate about the greatest fighter becomes the Jordan-versus-LeBron argument, and this series already made its LeBron case: the F-16, still getting signed at...
The Type 10 main battle tank is a technological marvel: a lightweight, network-linked, actively suspended machine with an autoloaded 120mm gun, built by Mitsubishi...
This week a 41-year-old free agent is deciding which team gets him for an unprecedented 24th season, and a third of the league is...
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...
We continue our series of best gunmakers by asking the question: Who’s the best gunmaker in the world? We started the series with centerfire...
In a breakout from the “5 Best Submachine Guns Of All-Time,” individual submachine guns deserve a closer look. We are covering an SMG that...
The Wall Street Journal has issued an opinion piece warning that a recent proposal (from New York Democrats) to raise taxes on high income earners as...
Even supporters of Donald Trump may have been taken off-guard by his words earlier this week.
On his website, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. posted a “Save the Date. Save the Country” landing page inviting voters to a “historic event.”
