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With Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing accession process of Sweden and Finland into NATO in the background, a different dispute is...
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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...
An estimated 632 F/A-18E/F Super Hornets have been built since the type entered service in 1999, at roughly $70 million apiece. No enemy has...
USS Abraham Lincoln will have logged 295 days on deployment by September 12, the second-longest carrier run since the Cold War, behind USS Gerald...
The F-16 was not selected by accident. It is a mature aircraft with a robust industrial base, highly maneuverable thanks to fly-by-wire controls, and...
The creed survives on two tracks: the spoken line preserved by a lieutenant who heard it, and the written Message published that same March....
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.
With Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing accession process of Sweden and Finland into NATO in the background, a different dispute is...
On day 134 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military is planning its next moves in eastern Ukraine. For the time being,...
Last week, President Joe Biden inadvertently confused Sweden with Switzerland – which in fairness is a common mistake among Americans. Biden had suggested that he...
The Bell OH-58 Kiowa was perhaps less well known than its U.S. Army contemporaries – the AH-64 Apache, UH-60 Black Hawk, or CH-47 Chinook...
Video footage released by the Ukrainian Operational Command North on Wednesday showed a Russian tank being completely obliterated by Ukrainian artillery. The strike resulted...
