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Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

Fighting jointly is how you prevail in an age when not just fleets of warships, and not just navies, but air forces, strategic rocket...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

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...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

Robert Work is the Rick Grimes of U.S. Marine Corps force design, forever blazing away at faulty ideas.

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

In The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power, just out from Yale, Kaplan brings a bleak outlook drawn from Greek tragedy...

Smart Bombs

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

The Royal Navy's T-class submarine HMS Thunderbolt has the dubious distinction of sinking twice with nearly all hands on board.

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that the United Arabs Emirates has expressed disappointment with American efforts to deter Iran. As a result,...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Commissioned on Oct. 14, 1903 — the date that is now considered the birth of the Russian submarine forces — the Delfin would become...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

More than 16 months later, Russian forces are struggling to advance more than a mile on the ground in Ukraine and have suffered more...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Now with any future budget stimulus off the table, the Fed needs to reassess its monetary policy stance - and soon.

Trillions - 19FortyFive

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...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

“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...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

The USA can survive just fine with a three year pause on loan repayments. Repayments should be paused indefinitely, or forgiven outright.

The Embassy

The Embassy

A skirmish along the Iranian-Afghanistan border broke out last weekend, resulting in a gun fight that killed three people. Video footage depicting the debacle...

The Embassy

Fears of spiraling escalation seem, at this point, rather overblown. The war is fifteen months old and still limited to eastern Ukraine.

The Embassy

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...

The Embassy

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,...

Coronavirus

Coronavirus Chaos

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,...

Coronavirus Chaos

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...

Coronavirus Chaos

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...

Coronavirus Chaos

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,...

Politics News

Politics

Discussion over Hunter Biden’s 2018 purchase of a pistol from a Wilmington. Del., gun store, despite his admission to having used hard drugs in...

Politics

Will the United States Space Force (USSF) become an issue in the 2024 election? Can the service ever detach itself from the political legacy...

Politics

Reporters noticed that President Joe Biden forgot to duck as he exited Marine One on the White House South Lawn upon his return to Washington from...

Politics

Leading analysts believe that Donald Trump likely will be charged with obstruction of justice and other crimes linked to his year-and-a-half effort to stonewall...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

The North Korean threat is real. Pyongyang has proven in recent years that the DPRK intends to not only expand but modernize both its...

Hermit Kingdom

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,...

Hermit Kingdom

Despite Biden’s best efforts with South Korea, the summit declaration merely puts a band-aid on a festering wound in the bilateral alliance. 

Hermit Kingdom

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...