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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...
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...
Ukraine says it struck thirteen more vessels from Russia's sanctions-dodging shadow fleet across the Azov and Black Seas in forty-eight hours, part of a...
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...
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...
The US-Iran war has settled into a stalemate Trump can only break by sending in ground troops, argues Dr. Robert Kelly of Pusan National...
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...
There is much debate about the debt ceiling this week as President Biden and Congress continue to meet to attempt to reach an agreement...
A video shared on social media captured the complete destruction of a Russian T-72B3 main battle tank (MBT) in Eastern Ukraine.
The folly of the “Weaponization Subcommittee”’s report on the Hunter Biden letter: Rep. Jim Jordan’s committee is trying to make a massive political scandal...
NGAD Is Coming: Months back, the United States Air Force officially unveiled the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider at the aerospace firm’s Palmdale, California, facilities....
Back in mid-June of last year, in recognition of the 40th anniversary of the Falkland Islands War, 19FortyFive published a story on the Royal...
