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In late June 2021, The New York Times broke a very important story about Chinese construction of large numbers of ICBM silos for its new large...
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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...
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....
The Montana-class would have been the largest, most heavily armed, and best-protected battleship the United States Navy ever put to sea. As one U.S....
I have been studying Russian submarines since I was just a little kid, and I even toured a diesel Foxtrot-class boat around twenty years...
“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...
In late June 2021, The New York Times broke a very important story about Chinese construction of large numbers of ICBM silos for its new large...
South Korea’s Defense Minister Suh Wook announced on June 28, 2021, plans to spend 2.89 trillion won ($2.6 billion) developing an equivalent of the...
The United States Air Force is deploying more than two dozen Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor fighter jets to Guam and Tinian islands to take...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was once the toast of the international community. He was young, spoke the language of democracy, and was willing...
United States Marine Corps aviators took part in combat operations alongside Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots from the Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier, HMS...
