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Is the world ready to secure Iran’s nuclear assets if the state collapses? While the Soviet Union’s collapse was a boon for democracy, it...
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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...
As the British Royal Navy faces a real shipyard crisis and a shrinking submarine fleet, it is decommissioning its first retired nuclear-powered attack submarine,...
One of the most interesting periods for the American aircraft carrier fleet came when the force transitioned from its World War II-era designs to...
In 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft during an ultra-rare window of celestial mechanics that humanity would not experience again for roughly 175 years. The...
Set every argument about triggers and safeties aside and one thing settles it: the M9 has no modularity and no integrated rail. There is...
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.
Is the world ready to secure Iran’s nuclear assets if the state collapses? While the Soviet Union’s collapse was a boon for democracy, it...
The Ukrainian military is cleaning up shop after days of lightning advances that liberated thousands of square miles. On day 201 of the Russian...
Sure, Russia claims time and time again that the Su-75 checkmate stealth fighter will fly in the next few years. However, that seems rather...
The size and complexity of both private and public networks – and the number of devices on them – are growing at a rapid...
Yes, ammo prices are still relatively high these days and, thanks to inflation, could go even higher – but at least you can find...
