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It seems that every Western government supports Ukraine in its quest for total victory over Russia. The NATO alliance and other states have remained...
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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...
Almost nothing about the Smith & Wesson Model 29 makes sense for personal defense, and almost everyone knows what it is. That gap between...
Roughly 20 million Glocks have been built across every model and caliber since 1982. The next most-produced pistol on earth, the Russian Makarov, sits...
The reactors on a Nimitz-class carrier are buried behind structural compartments, radiation shielding, machinery spaces and armor. That is deliberate, and in combat it...
The penny is a legal instrument, not a market verdict — the Navy's objective was never revenue but the responsible disappearance of a thousand-foot...
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,...
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...
Drones reached Moscow on three of the last five nights. A ballistic missile would not extend Ukraine's reach so much as compress Russia's warning...
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...
Iran's Shahab-1 came from the Scud-B and reached 300km. The Khorramshahr, derived from North Korea's Musudan, reaches 2,000km — a 6.7-fold increase in reach.
It seems that every Western government supports Ukraine in its quest for total victory over Russia. The NATO alliance and other states have remained...
A major defense policy bill with updates to the Air Force’s efforts to retire some airplanes is close to passing in Congress. The Air...
Is former President Donald Trump’s popularity waning? A survey of social media bios suggests yes – Donald Trump (and MAGA’s) popularity has never been...
China’s military showed its vaunted YJ-21 Eagle Strike hypersonic anti-ship missile at an air show during the week of Nov. 7. This is the...
What is Putin’s End Goal in Ukraine? In his seminal work Vom Kriege (On War), Prussian general and military theorist Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz...
