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The Ukrainian military claims devastating Russian losses in a recent long-range missile strike against the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet headquarters.
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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...
Every stealth aircraft before the F-35 paid a brutal price for invisibility: fragile radar-absorbing skin that degraded almost as soon as it was applied....
The Air Force has opened the search for a next-generation infrared eye for its F-15s, asking industry who can build a modern Infrared Search...
Turkey's decade-long S-400 standoff with Washington may be breaking, with a pro-government columnist reporting the Russian missile systems have been sold to a Gulf...
For more than a century, everything fired from a submarine's torpedo tubes was built to leave and never come back. Launching is easy; recovering...
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...
A Ukrainian drone strike killed three people in the Moscow region over the weekend as Kyiv's deep-strike campaign — now reaching as far as...
U.S. forces hit dozens of Iranian targets in fresh strikes, including the first combat use of one-way attack sea drones, after Iran struck a...
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...
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...
The Ukrainian military claims devastating Russian losses in a recent long-range missile strike against the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet headquarters.
The 'electability' argument against former President Donald Trump–you know, that one that his Republican opponents have tried to use to avoid criticizing or engaging...
In February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin chose to launch a war of conquest against his country’s neighbor, Ukraine. The responsibility for starting that...
Former President Donald Trump continues to consolidate his lead in the GOP primary field, surpassing his rivals by an impressive 40 points, according to...
The legal team representing Donald Trump on charges that he attempted to thwart the 2020 election results has responded to the prosecution’s gag order...
