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Russia has taken great strides in modernizing its submarine force, and while it will likely never be as sizeable as the old Soviet Navy’s...
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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 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...
Russia pocketed several billion dollars in the first two weeks after the Strait of Hormuz closed. That figure is worth sitting with — real...
“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...
Key Point: The Walt Disney Company has raised peak-day ticket prices at the Walt Disney World Resort’s Magic Kingdom theme park to approximately $219...
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...
Russia has taken great strides in modernizing its submarine force, and while it will likely never be as sizeable as the old Soviet Navy’s...
Only a few details of Russia’s newly revealed next-generation, single-engine fighter dubbed “Checkmate”,0r Su-75, have been made public, but on Monday, it was announced...
“More tooth, less tail” is a common refrain from defense leaders in search of more combat power as budgets have flatlined. No matter the...
America’s near-peer adversaries have set very different courses when it comes to naval development. While China now has the largest navy in the world...
The four United States Navy’s Iowa-class battleships have been preserved as museum ships, and each survived combat operations in World War II and beyond,...
