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In an era of 5th generation stealth fighters, the older French Dassault Rafale often goes unnoticed. But those who ignore it do so at...
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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...
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...
According to statements by officials from Russia’s state-controlled defense-industrial and arms export conglomerate Rosoboronexport (ROE), several nations have reportedly confirmed orders for the Sukhoi Su-57...
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...
For many years, Elon Musk talked about Mars as if it were the sole reason that SpaceX came into existence. Though one project among...
China, Fuel, & The Indirect Approach: In his book Strategy, B.H. Liddell Hart wrote that “[t]he object in war is a better state of...
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...
In an era of 5th generation stealth fighters, the older French Dassault Rafale often goes unnoticed. But those who ignore it do so at...
Playing what-if with history is always good sport and oftentimes enlightens. Change one variable that plausibly could have been changed, project the impact of...
Americans have Alfred Thayer Mahan to blame for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They also have Mahan to thank for the attack’s failure....
The U.S. Navy reconnaissance airplanes are getting tired. The aging EP-3 Aries signals intelligence aircraft is leaving the fleet. The P-3 Orion was introduced...
You have your dream job. You’re a fighter pilot – the king of the skies. But after you serve your country in one of...
