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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...
This Nimitz-class aircraft carrier might have first sailed in 1977, but she is proving that even old supercarriers can make a big comeback. In...
From 1991 through 1999, NASA flew the SR-71 Blackbird after the aircraft was retired from the U.S. Air Force. The aircraft was flown for...
The Zumwalt-Class was supposed to be the future of the surface fleet. The Navy planned to build 32. It got three. Naval officials get...
Outgoing Navy Secretary John Phelan confirmed during the Sea-Air-Space symposium in Washington on Tuesday, April 21, that the U.S. Navy is conducting a new...
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...
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and then focus on improving your other innovations.” – Steve...
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me…Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful…that’s what matters to me…”...
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...
Donald Trump’s Way of War: An American Tradition At first, conventional minds worried that President Donald Trump’s campaign against Iran would draw us into...
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 a previous life, I was the foreign-affairs columnist for the local paper in my adopted hometown of Athens, Georgia. The month after 9/11...
As the United States and the military reflect on the end of the war and the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan it may be useful...
Anyone who witnessed the horrors of the 9/11 attacks recalls the wrenching grief and anger that gripped the American people. The collective desire for...
Springfield, Mass.-based Smith & Wesson charged into September on a high note. The U.S.-based leader in firearms announced the results for its first quarter...
It hasn’t been exactly “smooth sailing” for the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyer program. Of the originally planned 32 warships, 29 were canceled. Last week,...
