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Russia’s TOS-1, a 3 Minute Explainer: Burn Baby Burn. And I don’t mean that in a good way. Russian TOS-1 Buratino and TOS-1A Solntsepek...
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Iran: A War at the Wrong Time and Place: As the war in Iran continues and analysts debate how long it will last and...
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...
Canadian Defense Minister David McGuinty told a Senate defense committee on April 27 that Ottawa has not set a timeline for deciding whether to...
The Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA was one of the most radical fighter concepts ever seriously studied by the United States Air Force and NASA....
The satellite imagery doesn’t lie. China’s Chengdu facility is running five production lines. The J-20 fleet has crossed 300 aircraft. Annual output runs between...
An F-15C Accident Could Have Been A Tragedy: Many heroic, unlikely jet landings have occurred in war zones. Last weekend, one happened in California,...
Many geologists worldwide are seeking game-changing rare-earth elements. China processes these minerals used in cell phones, weapons systems, and other 21st-century products. Now, miners...
The Southwest Florida (SWFL) region is experiencing a severe drought. With rainfall deficits running over 13 inches, the Southwest Florida Water Management District has...
Why Did the Gulf of Panama Miss Out on Upwelling Last Year? The Gulf of Panama has long enjoyed a phenomenon known as “upwelling,...
Summary and Key Points: thirteen-year-old boy hiking through a field in Germany — at a location near Berlin that had previously been documented as...
The latest change to how things work in the military is the U.S. Army’s recent announcement of new retirement rules. The announcement came in...
Putin is the Head of a Russian State on the Brink of Economic Collapse: Leonid Putin, meet Vladimir Brezhnev. Serious Russian economists are increasingly...
An internal Pentagon email circulated this week by Elbridge Colby, the U.S. Defense Department’s top policy adviser, examined options for punishing NATO allies that...
As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year of hostilities, the dynamics on the ground and in the air are shifting. Having traveled...
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 TOS-1, a 3 Minute Explainer: Burn Baby Burn. And I don’t mean that in a good way. Russian TOS-1 Buratino and TOS-1A Solntsepek...
Japan’s Escort Aircraft Carriers, A Short History: In the late 1930s, the Imperial Japanese Navy began a shadow carrier program, in which three ships of...
Boeing 747 Turned Arsenal Ship? During the Cold War, Boeing developed plans to load a 747 with as many as 72 air-launched cruise missiles...
The US Air Force is getting new technology that will make it easier for its fighter pilots, especially female pilots, to urinate in flight,...
Javelin Anti-tank System: Enough for Ukraine Against the Russians?: Need to reach out and touch an enemy tank and send it to an early...
