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Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat

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...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

So Carl von Clausewitz, when properly understood, was right about how wars do or do not end. Even after a resounding triumph, it behooves...

Smart Bombs

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

The Islamic Republic of Iran successfully test-launched a ballistic missile last week, according to state-media sources. Iranian officials debuted the Khoramshahr-4 weapon, which can allegedly...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

The T-90M costs roughly $4.5 million to produce, making it a valuable tool on the battlefield and a high-value target for Ukrainian forces. 

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

The sanctions imposed by the West in the wake of the invasion have taken a toll on the Russian economy. Most, if not all,...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

The British press has noted that the crew onboard the Chuan 68 is well known as illegal scavengers, and this has been seen as...

Trillions

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.

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Russia is actually seeing the lowest unemployment in 30 years, and wages are still paid regularly. But the good times won't last.

The Embassy

The Embassy

Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford - the largest warship on Earth - is expected to take part in drills with the Norwegian armed...

The Embassy

Today’s crisis contrasts the genuine promise from just two years ago. Sudan, then working with the Trump administration, was making a serious reentry into...

The Embassy

Coined by Zalmay Khalilzad in the late 1990s, the term “congagement” captures the basic idea that the United States can contain Beijing in military...

The Embassy

Your biological data is being targeted by the Chinese government for the creation of next-generation bioweapons. It is only a matter of time before...

Coronavirus

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,...

Coronavirus Chaos

Perhaps as many as 90% of China’s 1.41 billion people will come down with COVID-19, said Feng Zijian, former deputy chief of China’s Center...

Politics News

Politics

Don’t fall for the Progressive hype being built around Joe Biden. He is the destroyer of our once great country.

Politics

Make no mistake: Kari Lake is very much interested in returning to politics. It’s just that she’s gone about it bizarrely. 

Politics

Kamala Harris has scarcely missed an opportunity to embarrass herself and the country she represents with strange comments.

Politics

To be clear: the percentage of Americans who’d view either Trump or Biden’s possible reelection in 2024 as a “triumph” is below 50 percent.

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...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

The global spread of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic sent international fossil fuel futures to record lows by March of this year. The virus also...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

For decades China-watchers have debated what form a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) offensive against Taiwan might take. An onslaught seems to be coming. Saying no to a cross-strait union is not...