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The war began on 28 February with little public explanation. The administration did not make a full case to Congress or to the country,...
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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...
USS Illinois (BB-65), the fifth Iowa-class battleship, was laid down at Philadelphia on December 6, 1942, and would have carried nine 16-inch guns throwing...
Talk of reviving the SR-71 Blackbird, still the fastest air-breathing aircraft ever at an official Mach 3.32 and an unofficial 3.56, has grown into...
China already has a Navy bigger than America. And shipyard capacity is the reason why.
The lead boat, USS District of Columbia submarine, was laid down in June 2022 and is roughly 65 percent complete against a 2028 delivery....
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...
The war began on 28 February with little public explanation. The administration did not make a full case to Congress or to the country,...
On 12 July 2026, during RIMPAC, HMCS Corner Brook fired an Mk 48 heavyweight torpedo and delivered the final strike that sank the decommissioned...
The trials ended in late November 1963 with 29 touch-and-goes, 21 full-stop landings and 21 unassisted takeoffs recorded. No aircraft larger or heavier has...
A five-day 2013 Gulf of Oman exercise put USS Dallas against HMS Illustrious, escorts and anti-submarine helicopters. The official Royal Navy record confirms simulated...
Japan’s Yamato-class battleships were larger, carried heavier guns and wore thicker armor. The Iowa class still offered the stronger overall combat system through superior...
