Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive
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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...
Robert Work is the Rick Grimes of U.S. Marine Corps force design, forever blazing away at faulty ideas.
In The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power, just out from Yale, Kaplan brings a bleak outlook drawn from Greek tragedy...
So Carl von Clausewitz, when properly understood, was right about how wars do or do not end. Even after a resounding triumph, it behooves...
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...
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.
The sanctions imposed by the West in the wake of the invasion have taken a toll on the Russian economy. Most, if not all,...
The British press has noted that the crew onboard the Chuan 68 is well known as illegal scavengers, and this has been seen as...
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...
“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...
The USA can survive just fine with a three year pause on loan repayments. Repayments should be paused indefinitely, or forgiven outright.
Russia is actually seeing the lowest unemployment in 30 years, and wages are still paid regularly. But the good times won't last.
Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford - the largest warship on Earth - is expected to take part in drills with the Norwegian armed...
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...
Coined by Zalmay Khalilzad in the late 1990s, the term “congagement” captures the basic idea that the United States can contain Beijing in military...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Don’t fall for the Progressive hype being built around Joe Biden. He is the destroyer of our once great country.
Make no mistake: Kari Lake is very much interested in returning to politics. It’s just that she’s gone about it bizarrely.
Kamala Harris has scarcely missed an opportunity to embarrass herself and the country she represents with strange comments.
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.
The North Korean threat is real. Pyongyang has proven in recent years that the DPRK intends to not only expand but modernize both its...
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,...
Despite Biden’s best efforts with South Korea, the summit declaration merely puts a band-aid on a festering wound in the bilateral alliance.
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...
19FortyFive is about change. We normally think of institutional culture as an impediment to healthful change, and oftentimes it is. Bureaucracies are machines designed...
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...
Last month, China released details of its 14th five-year plan, the outline for how it will double its GDP by 2035, rebalance its economy,...
Falun Gong media outlet New Tang Dynasty (NTD) has reported that mobile phone giant Vodafone is blocking Falun Gong websites in the United Kingdom....
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...
