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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

The Kremlin appears to be preparing a new mobilization, according to an ISW assessment, with the Duma opening military contracts to people carrying unexpunged...

Aerospace & Defense

A Russian Su-57 stealth fighter crashed during a training flight in Moscow Oblast, with the pilot ejecting safely after witnesses say he steered the...

Aerospace & Defense

Rolls-Royce, Japan's IHI and Italy's Avio Aero have completed more than a hundred subscale component tests for the engine intended to power the Global...

Aerospace & Defense

Russia has moved the nuclear-powered battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov into final sea trials after nearly three decades out of frontline service. The rebuilt ship may...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

No vessel entered any of the three Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on Wednesday, the first such day since the grain corridor opened...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Oil futures are signaling that traders expect prices to fall over the coming months, despite the war and the disruption around Hormuz. The bet...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Ukraine's long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries have spread the fuel crisis into the countryside just as harvest begins, one analyst argues, with farmers...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Two tankers loaded with Saudi crude reversed course in the Red Sea — without being fired on — after the Houthis threatened any ship...

The Embassy

The Embassy

Trump is underwater in all fifteen polls in the RealClearPolling average, and one election analyst traces the slide to Iran. A Washington Post survey...

The Embassy

American forces struck Iran for an eleventh straight night as the Houthis pressed their blockade threat against Saudi shipping. Only three commodity vessels crossed...

The Embassy

The Houthis have declared a maritime embargo on Saudi shipping through the Red Sea, and the threat alone is working: four tankers changed course...

The Embassy

With Iran's foreign minister ruling out concessions or any reopening of Hormuz, one analyst argues the only way to stop Tehran's attacks on shipping...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives...

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...

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