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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had a brutal winter, when a variety of transportation-related mishaps fell at his feet, inspiring questions about his competency and...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
The Kremlin appears to be preparing a new mobilization, according to an ISW assessment, with the Duma opening military contracts to people carrying unexpunged...
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...
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...
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...
Oil futures are signaling that traders expect prices to fall over the coming months, despite the war and the disruption around Hormuz. The bet...
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...
Two tankers loaded with Saudi crude reversed course in the Red Sea — without being fired on — after the Houthis threatened any ship...
Social Security’s funding gap is not a forecast — it is arithmetic. The size of the shortfall is known, the levers that can close...
Trump is underwater in all fifteen polls in the RealClearPolling average, and one election analyst traces the slide to Iran. A Washington Post survey...
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 Houthis have declared a maritime embargo on Saudi shipping through the Red Sea, and the threat alone is working: four tankers changed course...
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...
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...
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...
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...
On May 21, 2025, a brand-new North Korean destroyer rolled over and partially capsized at its own launch ceremony — with Kim Jong Un...
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had a brutal winter, when a variety of transportation-related mishaps fell at his feet, inspiring questions about his competency and...
In his CNN town hall this week, former President Donald Trump said Republicans in Congress should “do a default.” Elected Republicans appear less than...
Whoever Trump chooses would need to work well with him and be able to not overshadow him. Both Youngkin and Haley are strong contenders...
Conceived as a beefier “battle carrier,” the Midway-class aircraft carrier featured an armored flight deck was more resilient and better able to recover from dive-bombing and kamikaze...
At nearly 62 metric tons, the M1 Abrams is one of the heaviest tanks ever produced. The hulking Abrams was introduced in 1980, just in time for decades and...
