Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Aerospace & Defense

Aerospace & Defense

Nothing was holding one of America's most advanced weather satellites to its fixture but gravity and friction — because another crew had borrowed the...

Aerospace & Defense

China is no longer experimenting with aircraft carriers. With Fujian now in service and more carriers expected, Beijing is building the foundation for a...

Aerospace & Defense

China's J-15 'Flying Shark' — the fighter that made its carriers viable — exists because Beijing bought an unfinished Su-33 prototype left in Ukraine...

Aerospace & Defense

Russia has modified its ballistic missiles to dive and maneuver in the terminal phase, evading Ukraine's interceptors, Reuben Johnson reports — a shift one...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Social Security’s funding gap is not a forecast — it is arithmetic. The size of the shortfall is known, the levers that can close...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

The Memorandum of Understanding that paused the fighting has collapsed, Farley writes, because it never settled the status of the Strait of Hormuz or...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

U.S. gas prices rose for the first time in eight weeks — 'Iran is the reason why,' per GasBuddy's Patrick De Haan — while...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Washington and Tehran can't agree whether the Strait of Hormuz is open — Trump declared it open under a new U.S. 'guardian' regime, while...

The Embassy

The Embassy

The US-Iran war has settled into a stalemate Trump can only break by sending in ground troops, argues Dr. Robert Kelly of Pusan National...

The Embassy

A New York Times analysis warns the US-Iran war sits on a 'knife's edge,' with experts urging a diplomatic off-ramp before it spirals beyond...

The Embassy

Iraq's new prime minister spent a week in Washington; Syria's president met Trump at the NATO summit. Frantzman reads the pattern: one envoy for...

The Embassy

Mediators have passed Iran a proposal for a ten-day ceasefire, Reuters reports, and Tehran's foreign ministry confirms diplomacy is moving — even as strikes...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

Xi's first Pyongyang visit in seven years, a ratified Russia pact, and a declaration that the arsenal is permanent: Andrew Latham on why the...

Hermit Kingdom

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...

Hermit Kingdom

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...

Hermit Kingdom

On May 21, 2025, a brand-new North Korean destroyer rolled over and partially capsized at its own launch ceremony — with Kim Jong Un...

Politics

In the last contested Republican presidential primary, in 2016, Donald Trump bucked the rules repeatedly, including by refusing to declare that he would endorse...

OUTBRAIN_19fortyfive.com JavaScript ADCODE END--->