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Meet the TOW Missile: Western-provided military aid might be Ukraine’s best chance at defeating Russia. While the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank weapon system, the M1A1...
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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 Army killed the M1A2 SEPv4 upgrade in September 2023 and started over, creating the M1E3. Major General Glenn Dean explained why: "The Abrams...
Patton died in December 1945, months after the war ended, and asked to be buried among his men. He lies at Luxembourg American Cemetery...
GCAP is the only European next-generation fighter program still standing. FCAS was supposed to replace the Rafale and the Eurofighter from around 2040, and...
The Varyag aircraft carrier had no propulsion and no crew, so it had to be dragged. Turkey refused passage through the Bosphorus for sixteen...
"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...
Meet the TOW Missile: Western-provided military aid might be Ukraine’s best chance at defeating Russia. While the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank weapon system, the M1A1...
The Ukrainian military has launched a new phase in its counteroffensive, and there is fierce fighting in several areas. For the time being, Russian...
Saudi Arabia is set to host a peace summit in early August to discuss Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s 10-point peace formula to end Russia’s...
5 Top Self-Defense Guns For Senior Citizens, A Short Primer: Maybe you’re trying to help your parents stay safe in their home. Or maybe...
A prominent anti-abortion organization, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, condemned Republican Governor Ron DeSantis for not endorsing a national ban on abortion.
