Aerospace & Defense
By the mid-1980s only a few dozen of the Shah's 225 F-4 Phantoms could still get airborne. Each flight hour is estimated to have...
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Sabotage at Leipzig, Swindon, and Skarżysko-Kamienna. A curfew across the river from Narva. New garrisons at Petrozavodsk, Lupche-Savino, and Pechenga pointing at Finland's 830-mile...
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...
“All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence...
USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23), the third and last Seawolf-class boat, was ordered in June 1996 largely to keep the shipyard’s welders employed between the...
“One mark of a great soldier is that he fights on his own terms or fights not at all.” The line credited to Sun...
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Theodore Roosevelt meant...
Four ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz Thursday against a 10-day average of 16. Iran said it hit tanker Trend on Friday. Brent is...
Jobs dropped out of Reed College and stayed on as what he called a "drop-in," sitting in on classes that interested him. One was...
"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...
Nine months after Riyadh gutted Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council, the Houthis took the port of Mokha on the Bab el-Mandeb, then struck King Khalid...
The rial has hit 2.5 million to the dollar, inflation is projected near 69 percent, and Iranian oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz...
Twenty-five years on, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the US mistook quiet for peace. A RAND strategist argues it is doing...
The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies have all warned of an escalating Russian gray...
President Trump says he gets along with Kim Jong Un and wants a new summit before the end of 2026, along with smaller US-South...
Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...
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...
By the mid-1980s only a few dozen of the Shah's 225 F-4 Phantoms could still get airborne. Each flight hour is estimated to have...
Contracts already signed, sections already under construction, termination penalties, lost economies of scale and a tax bill payable on a ship nobody finished. The...
The fleet it replaces was built for Britain's Royal Navy during the Cold War and bought secondhand in 1998. When the German yard was...
The German “pocket battleship” was an unofficial term used by the British press to describe the Deutschland-class cruisers (Panzerschiffe) built by Nazi Germany in...
The US Navy Had A Big Idea: In the late 1970s, proposals were made to convert the Iowa-class battleships into "battlecarriers" with a flight...
