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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...
Some decoys are so convincing that they don’t even include every detail of actual warplanes, meaning that, for a very low price, China can...
RUSI puts J-20 output near 120 aircraft a year. Across its production life the F-35 has averaged roughly 67 a year, and the F-22...
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,...
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.
US and Russia in a diplomatic war of words over Ukraine? While the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine is raging, the U.S. expelled the...
F-22 Stealth Fighters and a No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine? – Could the F-22 Raptor be part of a no-fly zone over Ukraine? Two Ukrainian...
Russia has attacked Ukraine. However legitimate Moscow’s complaints about allied policies, armed aggression against its weaker neighbor is a grotesque violation of moral norms...
At around 8 AM local time on February 24, a formation of 34 helicopters flew south across the Ukraine-Belarus border skimming at low altitude...
Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine – Demands That The U.S. Army Fix Critical Capability Gaps Now – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is just the latest...
