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The Russian invasion of Ukraine is entering the eighth day, and casualties are mounting on both sides. For the first time since the start...
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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...
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has confirmed what circulated for months as rumour: J-10CE fighters posted a perfect 9-0 record against Qatari Eurofighter Typhoons during...
The Air Force's stated goal is at least 1,000 Collaborative Combat Aircraft, a figure first announced in 2023 and reaffirmed the following year. Against...
The A1B reactors give the Ford class roughly three times the electrical generating capacity of a Nimitz, using a simpler plant architecture. That margin...
In 1998 Congress enacted the Obey amendment, prohibiting the Defense Department from approving or licensing F-22 exports. Twenty-eight years on it still holds. Washington...
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.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is entering the eighth day, and casualties are mounting on both sides. For the first time since the start...
Will Russian President Vladimir Putin commit genocide in Ukraine? The short answer is that he already has, at least according to the definition provided...
As the world watches Russia invade Ukraine, the resulting bloodshed should serve as a haunting reminder of the fallacy of U.S. foreign policy, which claims...
European Union Not Sending Fighter Aircraft to Ukraine – Despite reports to the contrary, the European Union (EU), will not be sending fighters to...
On February 25, a day after Russia invaded Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced elements of the NATO Response Force (NRF) were heading...
