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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...
Author Steve Balestrieri reports on Israel's expected inquiry about the F-47: whether America's sixth-generation fighter follows the F-35's export path or the F-22's ban,...
Harrison Kass examines a new GAO report on the Pentagon's ballooning maintenance backlog: buildings past eighty years old, barracks with mold and failing plumbing,...
Japan's Ministry of Defense intends to begin developing an underwater-launched hypersonic missile under its fiscal 2027 program. The disclosure sat among more than 150...
Compared to the F/A-18F Super Hornet, the Growler is not a clean-sheet aircraft, but a missionized derivative of it.
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.
Assume for a second that Ukraine’s armed forces cannot prevail in a conventional fight against the Russian host currently besieging the country. What then?...
Russia’s war on Ukraine has sparked a surprisingly robust conversation in the United States. While many (perhaps most) Americans sympathize with Ukraine as the...
The F-15SE Silent Eagle, in many respects, lives on in the F-15EX. But why did the US Air Force not back a sort of...
What would a war between Russia and NATO look like? One word: hell. With the shift to Great Power Competition, the Pentagon is looking to...
Russia’s Planned Ptitselov Vehicle Would Shoot Down Aircraft Using Ultra-Fast Laser-Guided Missiles – Had the Cold War turned hot in the 1980s, one of...
