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F-22 vs. F-15 in Alaska: Is dogfighting still a thing? The U.S. Air Force thinks it is essential that the service branch train Air National...
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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...
The room laughed at US Army General George Patton, and the laughter was reasonable — no army that size had ever reversed itself at...
Israel saw the F-22 as its fifth-generation F-15 replacement. Congressional legislation barring foreign sales ended that, and Israel, Japan and Australia were left with...
The Army has put more than half a billion dollars into expanding General Dynamics' Valleyfield plant near Montreal, which supplies the M31A2 propellant for...
Quite bluntly, the United States of America is engaged in a New Cold War with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) along with China’s...
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.
F-22 vs. F-15 in Alaska: Is dogfighting still a thing? The U.S. Air Force thinks it is essential that the service branch train Air National...
Ukraine is getting an arsenal thanks to America – The U.S. continues to send weapons to Ukraine to support the Ukrainian military in its fight...
When Will the Great Ammo Shortage End? – Many gun owners are demanding more bullets, shells, and cartridges; 2022 is another year of ammunition...
Russia can’t seem to win in Ukraine’s Donbas region: On day 91 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military continues to search for a...
The United Kingdom’s RG Mk1 “Protector” drone is expected to enter service with the Royal Air Force by 2024. Britain announced an $83 million...
