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Much debate remains on whether the Lockheed Martin SR-72, affectionately known as the “Son of the Blackbird,” is actually real. It reportedly could be making an...
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That it’s springtime in the Black Sea is not enough reason to go on the march. Military reality—not the passing of the seasons—has to...
Robert Work is the Rick Grimes of U.S. Marine Corps force design, forever blazing away at faulty ideas.
In The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power, just out from Yale, Kaplan brings a bleak outlook drawn from Greek tragedy...
So Carl von Clausewitz, when properly understood, was right about how wars do or do not end. Even after a resounding triumph, it behooves...
The Ohka was a desperate attempt by Japan to use terror weapons to win World War II. It failed. “Desperate times call for desperate...
The famous WWII-era Alaska-Class Battlecruisers were developed as far back as the 1930s to counter large German ships emerging during the lead-up to WWII....
China said this week that the West must stop sending weapons to Ukraine and negotiate a peaceful settlement to the conflict.
As hostilities between the two countries continue to heat up, the Russian MSTA-B artillery system may make more appearances. It can do a lot of...
Now with any future budget stimulus off the table, the Fed needs to reassess its monetary policy stance - and soon.
A state-sponsored Chinese hacking group called Volt Typhoon penetrated critical U.S. computer networks throughout the continental U.S. and Guam. The group was reportedly able...
“No corner of the global economy will be spared,” was what Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics told AP News in a...
The USA can survive just fine with a three year pause on loan repayments. Repayments should be paused indefinitely, or forgiven outright.
Fears of spiraling escalation seem, at this point, rather overblown. The war is fifteen months old and still limited to eastern Ukraine.
Ending the war based on a neutral Ukraine without express security guarantees from NATO would clearly be an unpleasant outcome for Kyiv’s leaders, but...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is looking ahead to another five-year term. Erdogan won 52.15% of the vote this month in Turkey’s presidential elections,...
At best, trading F-16s and F-16 upgrades to Turkey in exchange for Erdogan lifting his veto on Sweden would be a pyrrhic victory.
The United States spent a combined $6 trillion of money we didn’t have on responding to the novel coronavirus that leeched out of Wuhan,...
Editor’s Note: As with all things COVID-19, we respect our author’s opinions and ideas on this issue – all of their ideas. With that...
China’s dramatic shift from draconian restrictions to relaxed COVID-19 rules is likely to cause more economic disruptions than benefits. The poorly performing economy will...
This was the year the word “tripledemic” entered the lexicon. That’s the term for the three different types of illnesses, COVID-19, flu, and RSV,...
The debt ceiling bill, negotiated by President Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, has passed its final hurdle in the Senate. The measure was carried...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that there will be no peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine until Kyiv is in a more...
Ron DeSantis: Donald Trump a Lame Duck on Day 1 – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis argues that Donald Trump would be a lame-duck president...
Donald Trump was fun and even necessary for a certain amount of time. But he is unsustainable with the ability to turn destructive quickly.
The North Korean threat is real. Pyongyang has proven in recent years that the DPRK intends to not only expand but modernize both its...
North Korea’s missile launches are in the headlines again, and a seventh nuclear test might be on the horizon. For most experts and pundits,...
Despite Biden’s best efforts with South Korea, the summit declaration merely puts a band-aid on a festering wound in the bilateral alliance.
In recent days it has been reported in the Chosun Ilbo (one of South Korea’s most widely read daily newspapers) that if North Korea...
Much debate remains on whether the Lockheed Martin SR-72, affectionately known as the “Son of the Blackbird,” is actually real. It reportedly could be making an...
Back on Super Bowl Sunday, the United States Air Force offered the first-of-its-kind trifecta flyover, which included a B-1B Lancer from Ellsworth Air Force Base in...
Throughout the Cold War, the United States Air Force’s SR-71 was one of the world’s fastest and highest-flying operational aircraft. From 80,000 feet in the air, it could...
The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, one of the best fighter jets of all time, once had some stiff competition. The YF-23 was a stealth...
Designed to fly at high altitudes and at supersonic speeds, the United States Air Force‘s Convair B-58 Hustler was actually the first operational bomber capable of Mach...
