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Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Aerospace & Defense

Aerospace & Defense

In the 1950s, the U.S. Navy developed nuclear artillery shells the size of the Hiroshima bomb for the 16-inch guns of its Iowa-class battleships....

Aerospace & Defense

Russia’s surface fleet has been exposed as weak. Its submarine force, however, remains the most capable and dangerous part of its military — the...

Aerospace & Defense

The FFG(X) program had one governing requirement: don't repeat the Littoral Combat Ship. The Navy chose Fincantieri's proven FREMM design, told Congress 85 percent...

Aerospace & Defense

Assume the H-20 clears every engineering hurdle tomorrow. It would still depend on a refueling fleet of roughly 35 aircraft, none carrying the high-flow...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Social Security’s funding gap is not a forecast — it is arithmetic. The size of the shortfall is known, the levers that can close...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

The Memorandum of Understanding that paused the fighting has collapsed, Farley writes, because it never settled the status of the Strait of Hormuz or...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

U.S. gas prices rose for the first time in eight weeks — 'Iran is the reason why,' per GasBuddy's Patrick De Haan — while...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Washington and Tehran can't agree whether the Strait of Hormuz is open — Trump declared it open under a new U.S. 'guardian' regime, while...

The Embassy

The Embassy

Carafano argues Iran has lost its nuclear option, its missile mass, its proxy network, and its grip on the Strait of Hormuz all at...

The Embassy

Ukrainian drones set two major Russian refineries ablaze overnight — including Salavat in Bashkortostan, the last gas refinery untouched in 2026 — while Russia...

The Embassy

Trump is stuck. He started a war with Iran he expected to end quickly; six months on, the central point of contention is control...

The Embassy

The United States can hit almost anything Iran places near the Strait of Hormuz. It cannot hit the strait itself. That distinction is the...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

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...

Hermit Kingdom

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...

Hermit Kingdom

On May 21, 2025, a brand-new North Korean destroyer rolled over and partially capsized at its own launch ceremony — with Kim Jong Un...

Hermit Kingdom

Fake Russian IDs, Orders Never to Be Captured, and 50% Casualties: Inside North Korea’s Secret War in Ukraine The Russian Army has sustained nearly...

The Embassy

Rumors Re-Emerge About Putin’s Deteriorating Health – Does Russia’s Putin have Cancer or Parkinson’s Disease or something else? The world keeps asking this very...

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