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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...
Russia pocketed several billion dollars in the first two weeks after the Strait of Hormuz closed. That figure is worth sitting with — real...
Cold War U.S. Navy analysts, watching the Soviets build something extraordinary at the Sudomekh shipyard in Leningrad through the 1960s and 1970s, reached a...
Anytime I ever brought up Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the tragedy we call the Admiral Kuznetsov, U.S. Naval officials either laugh or cringe. As...
Why the Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carriers are So Special: There is a particular kind of warship that gets rarer the longer you study naval history....
“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...
Two cheers for Great Britain! Why only two? London merits two cheers because it has accepted that “Global Britain” must play its part in...
Over the past 20 years, China has almost completely displaced the United States as the primary trading partner for countries in Africa. Nairobi roads...
U.S. combat forces came under attack in eastern Syria last weekend, in what is becoming almost a daily event in both Iraq and Syria....
The smart money says Carlos Del Toro will become the next Secretary of the Navy. His July 13 job interview with the Senate Armed Services Committee went swimmingly. However, the next chapter...
As the world’s oldest firearms maker the Italian-based Beretta knows a thing or two about firearms. Since its founding in 1526, it has produced...
