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Russia has deployed its first regular unit of Terminator combat support tanks. The first Terminator company – equipped with nine BMPT-72s – was assigned...
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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...
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,...
The latest chapter of the Franco-German Future Combat Air System (FCAS) fighter jet saga is now being written by both countries’ defense ministers as...
The U.S. Navy’s Seawolf class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines (SSNs) are extremely impressive warships, and back in the day, they seemed like The Next Big...
The Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA (Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft) was a conceptual late-1990s US Air Force/NASA design for a tailless fighter, derived from the F-22...
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 has deployed its first regular unit of Terminator combat support tanks. The first Terminator company – equipped with nine BMPT-72s – was assigned...
Money is important, but so is geography, and that all-important military home-field advantage: Take that, zombie! Over at Breaking Defense, Bill Greenwalt aims a blast to the...
Why the AR-15 Isn’t a ‘Weapon of War’ – President Joe Biden and many liberal lawmakers believe the problem today from mass shootings to gang violence simply...
B-52: the 100-Year-Old Bomber? When the last Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is finally retired, which may not be until the 2050s, the United States Air Force bomber...
The US Navy Has a Shipyard Problem That China Could Exploit In a War: The ghost of Mahan smiles. A few months back, a bipartisan cohort of...
