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For the second time this year, tensions in Ukraine are rising as Russia deploys thousands of troops and war materiel on the border. Moscow...
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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...
The military is, among other things, a leadership laboratory. In its 251-year existence (which predates American independence by 11 months), the United States Army...
On 28 April, Ukraine’s drone forces conducted the third round of attacks in two weeks on Russia’s Tuapse Refinery in Krasnodar Krai, a facility...
Just moments before he left office, former Navy Secretary John Phelan told USNI the service was considering foreign shipyards to accelerate and strengthen U.S....
The end of the Cold War brought an early end to the promising, heavily armed Seawolf-class submarines, capable boats that arguably would have continued...
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...
We have all done it at one time or another. That is driving our cars and trucks above the speed limit. But what if...
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...
For the second time this year, tensions in Ukraine are rising as Russia deploys thousands of troops and war materiel on the border. Moscow...
In recent years, as China has grown stronger and acted more like an aspiring hegemon in the Indo-Pacific region, a new and increasingly robust...
President Joe Biden may have campaigned on new gun control measures, which he infamously touted this spring. Those efforts – which were filled with...
One of the worst naval disasters in modern history occurred when the US Navy submarine USS Thresher imploded in 1963 killing everyone on board....
Editor’s Note: Having distilled the 2021 China Military Power Report (CMPR)’s key findings into a six-page summary last week, Dr. Andrew S. Erickson now...
