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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...
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 Kilo-class earned the nickname "black hole" during the Cold War and has been trading on it ever since. Naval analyst H I Sutton...
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On July 21, 1921, Brigadier General Billy Mitchell sank the captured German battleship Ostfriesland with bombs dropped from aircraft, and the age of the...
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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...
Rezaei's threat goes beyond the strait: no oil leaving the Gulf by any route if neighbors cooperate. In practice that would mean strikes on...
Of the 1.5 billion barrels in emergency stocks, the IEA cannot order the commercial half released, leaving governments under a billion. The American reserve...
The Houthis have no warships. It doesn't need any. A blockade holds if shipowners and insurers decide the passage is not worth the risk,...
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Speaking in Baghdad on August 20, Iran's parliament speaker warned that military power counts for nothing if the people are hungry. Four days later...
American forces struck Iranian positions preparing to fire mine-carrying missiles into the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran answered with a handful of missiles that reportedly...
Analysts dismissed American control of the Strait of Hormuz as a near-impossible task. The US government now says it has been helping tankers move...
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...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine since late 2023. The early shots missed by kilometers. Later ones did not. That combat...
The Russian forces continue to bleed on the fields and cities of Ukraine. Bakhmut, in particular, has proven to be the graveyard of the Russian Wagner...
Officials in Beijing are reportedly closely monitoring Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen's visit to the United States this week after she arrived in New York...
After having recently written multiple 19FortyFive articles on the military capabilities of one of the easternmost NATO member states, namely Poland – covering that country’s Land Forces and Air Force and Navy alike –...
Donald Trump has been under some type of investigation for many years, and his opponents have been disappointed by the outcomes of quite a...
Can Donald Trump Keep Indictment Outrage Going Into 2024? – Former President Donald Trump has the potential to turn the New York indictment, something...
