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Protests in Iran have intensified over the last week. The demonstrations began after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who perished while she was...
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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...
Among the capabilities reportedly demonstrated during the 2019 exercises was electronic attack: J-16s jamming the radars of the fighters flying against them. A large...
Visiting a training range, the SOCOM commander saw the M79s and lit up, remembering his time advising Vietnamese Ranger battalions. Offered a few rounds,...
The M249 plastic ammunition box was the problem nobody writes about. In thick vegetation it announced the gunner long before anyone saw him.
The complete SR-72 Darkstar guide: the 2013 reveal, Lockheed's statements, the 2018 vanishing, the Top Gun mockup, and where the Mach 6 program stands...
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,...
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...
Georgia Gilholy reports on Trump's map post declaring Hormuz 'New U.S. Territory,' a vessel struck off Oman hours earlier per UK Maritime Trade Operations,...
When it comes to severe economic pressure, Washington has massive options between everything and nothing. Something in the middle that hurts Iran a lot...
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.
Protests in Iran have intensified over the last week. The demonstrations began after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who perished while she was...
This week Russia will conduct referendums on the accession to Russia of several of its conquered territories in Ukraine. As many have pointed out,...
Would Putin Dare Use Nukes in Ukraine? Tuesday is the final day of voting in so-called “referendums” in Russian-occupied Ukraine. The door-to-door poll workers collecting...
Fact Check: Joe Biden Is Wrong, Gas Not Below Three Dollars Per Gallon President Joe Biden claimed on Monday, during the third meeting of...
Ukraine Has Captured a T-90M MBT – Moscow Should be Worried: In recent weeks, the Ukrainian military has captured dozens of Russian tanks –...
