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The Cruiser Submarine: A Great Idea in Theory Only – Submarines showed early in their existence that they could have an outsize impact in major...
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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...
On this day in 1965, ten men entered SEALAB II off La Jolla — and Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter stayed 30 straight days on...
A carrier commissioned eight days after Japan surrendered launched a German ballistic missile from her flight deck, then flew F/A-18s against Saddam Hussein 44...
No universally agreed best sniper rifle exists, and any list like this makes nine shooters angry for every one who agrees. But four systems...
Seventy-five Project 641 submarines were built between 1957 and 1983, serving six navies on four continents. On October 27, 1962, one of them hosted...
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.
The Cruiser Submarine: A Great Idea in Theory Only – Submarines showed early in their existence that they could have an outsize impact in major...
Warship design is a political process as much as an engineering challenge. Never was that more true than during the interwar decades, the heyday...
Some forgotten history: Special-operations forces have become US policymakers’ go-to choice for contingencies around the world. Special-operations units offer a high-reward, low-risk option who can...
We have covered the U.S. Air Force’s Next-Generation Air Dominance fighter extensively. The NGAD has whiz-bang characteristics and is a sixth-generation airplane that will be...
Why Is China Building So Many Nuclear Weapons? The US Defense Department’s annual report on China’s military, released in November, again illustrated the breathtaking pace and scale...
