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Secretary Marco Rubio’s announcement following the US-Ukraine negotiations in Saudi Arabia that Ukraine has agreed to accept a 30-day ceasefire and to enter into...
The increasingly fraught endgame to the Russia-Ukraine war reflects a larger ongoing debate in the US policy community about who is ultimately responsible for...
The Munich Security Conference and the days that followed, including the senior level US-Russia meeting in Saudi Arabia, have witnessed massive turbulence in transatlantic...
Since the COVID pandemic, Europe has fallen on hard economic times, and the continent’s absolute and relative economic decline has deepened over the past...
Summary and Key Points: As the U.S. advances its 6th-generation F-47 stealth fighter, a critical debate arises: should it be exclusively American or sold...
Summary and Key Points: The AGM-181 Long Range Stand Off Weapon (LRSO), America’s next-generation nuclear cruise missile, is rapidly progressing ahead of schedule, unlike...
Summary and Key Points: The upcoming Boeing F-47 Next-Generation Air Dominance fighter jet introduces intriguing aerodynamic elements, notably small canards visible in early renderings....
Introduction: F-16 – A Fighter Born from Necessity The U.S. Air Force had a problem with no easy fix. In the aftermath of the...
The big idea behind Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) appears to be that too many people work for the federal government. Therefore,...
Summary and Key Points: President Donald Trump has set April 2 as “Liberation Day,” planning to impose significant new tariffs on most U.S. trading...
Elon Musk’s turn towards Trumpism, as well as his work for DOGE, has had another effect: It’s completely changed what it means to be...
They used to say that Social Security was the “third rail of politics.” President George W. Bush used that term himself, back when he...
It might be the most shocking news story of the second Donald Trump era so far: On Monday, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The...
At the meeting of G7 foreign ministers and EU officials held in Quebec on March 12-14. The foreign minister of Germany, Annalena Baerbock, emphasized...
In 2006, Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it awarded them the prize “for...
Start Preparing Turkey’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu should end any pretense in the State...
U.S. President Donald Trump lost no time in letting his European critics know that the cheap defense ride at American expense was over. He...
Will an infusion of fresh troops from North Korea significantly impact the war in Ukraine? Not a lot. However, the deployment of more North...
It looks like North Korea is building a nuclear-powered submarine. Two days ago, North Korean state media announced the project, showing Supreme Leader Kim...
To the horror of many South Koreans, Donald Trump has returned to the White House. No one, including perhaps President Trump, knows what he...
We’re talking Saab here. No not the funny-looking Swedish car you remember from the 1980s and 90s. This is a fighter plane from Saab....
The tank was known only as Object 279, one of those opaque Soviet designations that could mean just about anything. But just looking at...
In March of 1945, and just five months before surrendering to the Allies, Japan did something with profound consequences: it conquered Vietnam—and ultimately embroiled the...
The newest and largest warship in the history of the U.S. Navy will be sailing on its first deployment next year. The Navy announced...
The Air Force’s newest old fighter jet just completed its first-ever operational mission with other aircraft. An F-15EX Eagle II underwent a two-week operational...
