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Russia’s Tu-22M, also known by its NATO moniker “Backfire,” has thankfully yet to see the long-range strategic use it was at least in part...
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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...
The strain in US-European relations under the second Trump administration stems primarily from a deepening ideological divide, not just policy disputes over trade or...
The X-32 is one of the more intriguing “what if” stories from the first decade of the post-Cold War era. Designed in the 1990s...
U.S. Aircraft Carriers Must Stay Beyond Visual Range to Survive China’s Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles — That Reduces Their Fighter Wings’ Effectiveness The People’s Liberation...
We Visited the USS Iowa in Los Angeles and Photographed the Last Battleship Class the U.S. Navy Ever Built — These Are Our Original...
The Kirov-Class Was Built to Hunt U.S. Carrier Strike Groups Using P-700 Granit Supersonic Anti-Ship Missiles When Russia’s nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov finally...
The Iran War Is Now Becoming a Strait of Hormuz Showdown The war in Iran began just over a month ago, when the United...
The U.S. Air Force probably wouldn’t land on anyone’s list as a top-paying employer. However, learning a valuable skill in the Air Force—especially one...
The U.S. Navy Built 24 Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers. It Can’t Pull That Off Again The U.S. was able to build twenty-four Essex-class aircraft carriers...
From Chernobyl’s Reactor to DARPA’s Lab to the International Space Station: How a Fungus Became a Pentagon Priority Nearly 40 years ago, in April...
The 2023 NDAA Blocks Unilateral NATO Withdrawal Without a Two-Thirds Senate Vote — But a De Facto Exit Is Far More Feasible In April...
Forget Iran: China’s DF-21D and DF-26 Carrier-Killer Missiles Can Hold U.S. Surface Ships at Risk Beyond the First Island Chain More than a month...
U.S. Intelligence Says No Taiwan Invasion by 2027. Critics Say That’s Naive The subject of China’s plans to invade Taiwan provokes steady debate, and...
Iran Can Never Be Allowed to Have Nuclear Weapons. America Must Keep Going When the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran broke out in late February,...
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...
Russia’s Tu-22M, also known by its NATO moniker “Backfire,” has thankfully yet to see the long-range strategic use it was at least in part...
The Turkish government, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, indicated days before the announcement that Sweden and Finland would seek membership in NATO that...
A recent documentary on Netflix concerning Three Mile Island is getting a lot of attention. But what actually occurred? What do you do when...
X-20: A Short History – Hypersonic weapons are all the rage these days, but the United States once had a hypersonic space plane that was...
Russia’s Tupolev Tu-160 bomber has a patchy history, having undergone numerous facelifts resulting in several variants since its first flight in 1981. The “Blackjack” strategic...
