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To Defeat Enemies, Study Their Failures: The foreign policy challenges the United States faces are acute: both open and asymmetric warfare, “gray zone” aggression,...
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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 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...
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...
Every debate about the greatest fighter becomes the Jordan-versus-LeBron argument, and this series already made its LeBron case: the F-16, still getting signed at...
The Type 10 main battle tank is a technological marvel: a lightweight, network-linked, actively suspended machine with an autoloaded 120mm gun, built by Mitsubishi...
This week a 41-year-old free agent is deciding which team gets him for an unprecedented 24th season, and a third of the league is...
Nearly every "best tank" ranking crowns the American M1 Abrams, and with good reason, but that buries a more interesting question: what is the...
A single Ukrainian drone forced Russia's largest refinery, in Omsk, to halt operations, knocking out units that make roughly 75 percent of its output...
Iran is moving to charge ships for passing through the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway that carries a fifth of the world's oil...
A film celebrating ten years of China's Y-20 transport slipped in something no other country has shown on official camera: a sixth-generation fighter refueling...
A decade after it surfaced, China's H-20 has no flying prototype and no production line. The reasons are industrial, not financial: an intercontinental flying...
National security expert James Jay Carafano argues that although the fighting grinds on, the war in Ukraine is strategically over — and Putin has...
President Trump arrived at the NATO summit in Ankara and threatened to withdraw substantial U.S. forces from Europe unless Denmark softens its grip on...
Cheap drones can make a Chinese assault on Taiwan bloodier and a quick victory less likely — but they don't repeal geography or remove...
The expectation that cutting U.S. aid would force Ukraine to fold is dead: Russia cannot win this war without a mass mobilization or nuclear...
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...
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...
On May 21, 2025, a brand-new North Korean destroyer rolled over and partially capsized at its own launch ceremony — with Kim Jong Un...
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...
To Defeat Enemies, Study Their Failures: The foreign policy challenges the United States faces are acute: both open and asymmetric warfare, “gray zone” aggression,...
Drones have played a crucial role in the conflict in Ukraine – and seeing the potential that such small unmanned aerial systems (UAS) could...
Kherson Liberated – Russian Weakness Exposed to the World: When Russia began its unprovoked and unwarranted invasion of Ukraine in late February, many of...
Georgia has been a hotspot for political drama over the last few years. This year will be no different; neither Democratic senate candidate Raphael...
A pair of United States Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bombers took part in a “show-of-force” patrol mission in the Middle East on Thursday as...
