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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...
What is the future of the USS Gerald R. Ford-class of aircraft carriers? The Ford has endured its share of schedule slips and cost...
The British Royal Navy’s HMS Vanguard — the 814-foot, 30-knot, 51,000-ton fast battleship laid down at John Brown shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland on March...
MANILA – It’s official, the Shenyang J-35 stealth fighter aircraft carrier variant now has a new name. The service nickname given to the aircraft...
The SSN(X) Delays Only Hurt the U.S. Navy: If I had to make an educated guess, there is a chart inside the Pentagon that...
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…”...
Since 2020, Mexico has been building a 300+ kilometer-long land bridge connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic. The goal of the Interoceanic Corridor of...
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...
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Defense and aerospace industrial firms from the Islamic Republic of Iran that had been scheduled and confirmed to participate in Defense...
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...
Last year, the chess-themed Netflix original series The Queen’s Gambit became a worldwide sensation, and now Russia could be hoping that its Checkmate light...
Beijing has warned the Royal Navy’s carrier strike group, led by its flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, not to carry out any “improper...
A typical misconception is that the military always seeks to enlarge its force, obtain more equipment and keep what it has – while it...
On July 20, 2021, Russia’s much-delayed next-generation S-500 Prometey air defense system finally surged into public view when Russia’s Ministry of Defense published a...
Last month, nearly the entire Senate Republican caucus signed a letter that demanded a proposed ATF rule to regulate some pistol-stabilizing braces be withdrawn....
