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Summary and Key Points: Putin could try to freeze the Ukraine war by declaring victory: Russia holds Crimea, much of the Donbas, and parts...
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Iran: A War at the Wrong Time and Place: As the war in Iran continues and analysts debate how long it will last and...
Strategic expert Andrew A. Michta explores how Russia is capitalizing on the Iran War to consolidate gains in Europe. With U.S. resources drained and...
Key Points and Summary – The recent NATO summit in The Hague, where European allies agreed to a new 5% of GDP defense spending...
The Trump administration made the Russia-Ukraine ceasefire its priority foreign policy initiative shortly after the inauguration. Setting aside Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric that he...
A senior U.S. Navy official just delivered a brutal warning about the Pentagon’s most consequential August 2026 decision: failing to fund the F/A-XX sixth-generation...
General George S. Patton said it best: “To be a successful soldier, you must know history.” The legendary “Old Blood and Guts” believed his...
This practice by China was supposed to be a strategic masterstroke. In order to enforce Beijing’s flimsy claims of territorial ownership in the First...
After undergoing an extended period of maintenance, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is officially back in business. The carrier had been undergoing a...
A new study has uncovered a deeply troubling problem in the world’s network of undersea commercial tunnels: rubber GINA gaskets are degrading 35% faster...
Israel just approved a massive new fighter purchase—roughly 25 F-35I Adir stealth fighters and 25 F-15IA aircraft—as part of a $119 billion post-war force...
Benjamin Franklin said it best: “Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.” The...
Thirty-five national veterans groups—including the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America—have just endorsed the...
Vladimir Putin’s paranoia has surged to an all-time high—the Russian president now reportedly spends his days and nights shuttling between underground bunker complexes, terrified...
The leader of Russia’s Communist Party just warned Vladimir Putin from the floor of the State Duma that the country could face a “revolutionary...
Benjamin Franklin once said it best: “There never was a good war, or a bad peace.” Written in a letter to Josiah Quincy, Sr....
Grant the optimistic scenario: The Iran ceasefire holds. Diplomats produce something they can call a framework. The immediate military pressure eases, and Washington declares...
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...
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Bruce E. Bechtol Jr., a political science professor and proliferation expert, evaluates the strategic partnership between Iran and North...
Summary and Key Points: Reuben F. Johnson, a veteran defense technology analyst and Casimir Pulaski Foundation fellow, scrutinizes the Ninth Congress of the Workers’...
Korea’s Division Isn’t a Glitch Anymore. It’s a Feature of the New Order The division of Korea was always understood to be temporary. In...
Summary and Key Points: Putin could try to freeze the Ukraine war by declaring victory: Russia holds Crimea, much of the Donbas, and parts...
Summary and Key Points: George S. Patton Jr. is remembered for speed, aggression, and victory—but even Patton took hard losses. -His clearest battlefield setback...
Summary and Key Points: A U.S. Army staff sergeant who died during a 2013 insurgent assault on Forward Operating Base Ghazni in eastern Afghanistan...
Summary and Key Points: The debate over the proposed Trump-class battleship echoes an earlier experiment: the Cold War reactivation of the Iowa-class. -Reactivated in...
Summary and Key Points: F-35 Heading North? Canada’s fighter replacement saga is tightening into a political and financial trap. -While Ottawa publicly reviews whether...
