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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...
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...
There is something almost theatrical about the way USS New Jersey kept refusing to retire. But sitting standing on the deck of the USS...
“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...
When Belarus’ authoritarian strongman, Aleksandr Lukashenko, personally dispatched a fully armed MiG-29 fighter jet to intercept Ryanair Flight FR4978 in order to arrest a...
“Divest to invest” is a slogan the Joint Chiefs use when touting their approach to managing declining defense budgets that don’t keep up with...
In late 2020, a Chinese submersible, the Fendouzhe, descended over 30,000 feet to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, home to the deepest point in the earth’s...
There are a lot of things in war movies that seem unlikely, yet really happened. Case in point: In the 1998 World War II...
Iran and Israel have been at loggerheads since the transformation of Iran into an Islamic republic more than four decades ago and each has...
