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Ron DeSantis of Florida and Gavin Newsom of California have regularly been at one another’s throats, and may now have the opportunity to discuss...
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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...
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...
The Varyag aircraft carrier had no propulsion and no crew, so it had to be dragged. Turkey refused passage through the Bosphorus for sixteen...
The four 1980s Iowa-class warships fired 1,083 sixteen-inch shells in the Gulf War — 759 from Missouri, 324 from Wisconsin. Against $1.7 billion in...
Two rotary launchers in the internal bay give the Tu-160 up to 12 cruise missiles. The armament list runs Kh-55SM, Kh-555, Kh-101/102, and the...
Roughly 10 major industrial partners and 250 suppliers would build the aircraft. Saab estimates 50 percent of the JAS 39 Gripen and GlobalEye work...
"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...
Rezaei's threat goes beyond the strait: no oil leaving the Gulf by any route if neighbors cooperate. In practice that would mean strikes on...
Of the 1.5 billion barrels in emergency stocks, the IEA cannot order the commercial half released, leaving governments under a billion. The American reserve...
Michael Rubin's argument at 25 years is that almost nothing was learned. The hijackers were neither poor nor occupied, yet the assumption that grievance...
Twenty-five years on, the familiar verdict is that American intelligence agencies failed to warn. Lieutenant General Wallace "Chip" Gregson argues the failure was broader...
The US and Canada have 3 unsettled maritime disputes: the Beaufort Sea, the Northwest Passage, and a rock in the Bay of Fundy. None...
Splitting Russia into 4 or 5 states would be neither unprecedented nor strange. There are more than 20 Arab countries. Somalis live across 5....
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...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine since late 2023. The early shots missed by kilometers. Later ones did not. That combat...
Ron DeSantis of Florida and Gavin Newsom of California have regularly been at one another’s throats, and may now have the opportunity to discuss...
All-righty then, it was now time for Yours Truly to head back to Cindy’s Hot Shots in Glen Burnie, Maryland, to test the enhanced...
Texas company Newcastle Manufacturing is raising the bar for robust quadcopters with an armor-plated drone claiming the ability to shrug off shotgun fire.
The barrels for the KS-23 were made from 23mm antiaircraft gun barrels that had been rejected due to manufacturing flaws.
A few weeks back, in my writeup on the world’s worst 10mm handguns, one of the pistols I mentioned was the Bren Ten, which...
