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Over at Stars and Stripes, I gave a quick interview that was integrated into larger analysis pieces concerning U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises (JME)...
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For all the talk of spending targets, the Ankara NATO summit's real work happened elsewhere. Europe is being handed responsibility for NATO's conventional defense...
Western analysts fixate on North Korea's missiles. The real danger is speed — a mass artillery-and-missile salvo in the war's first hours, backed by...
The second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
USS Carl Vinson entered service in 1982 and has since fought over Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen, while also delivering aid after Haiti’s earthquake....
The four Ohio-class guided-missile submarines leaving service by the end of the decade carry 154 Tomahawks each, and they have been a favorite of...
USS George Washington entered Newport News for a four-year overhaul in 2017 but did not return to the Navy until May 2023. Hidden turbine...
USS John F. Kennedy, the second Gerald R. Ford-class supercarrier, is now scheduled for delivery in March 2027. The Navy's own budget documents give...
No vessel entered any of the three Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on Wednesday, the first such day since the grain corridor opened...
Oil futures are signaling that traders expect prices to fall over the coming months, despite the war and the disruption around Hormuz. The bet...
Ukraine's long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries have spread the fuel crisis into the countryside just as harvest begins, one analyst argues, with farmers...
Two tankers loaded with Saudi crude reversed course in the Red Sea — without being fired on — after the Houthis threatened any ship...
Zelensky met Raytheon executives in Kyiv, saying Ukraine is moving to co-produce Patriot missiles under plans he discussed with Trump — though waiting lists...
In a new analysis, national security expert James Jay Carafano argues President Trump has already achieved America's key objectives against Iran and is de-risking...
The Pentagon's official count of American troops killed in the Iran conflict dropped from eighteen to fourteen between Wednesday and Thursday, the New York...
Trump is underwater in all fifteen polls in the RealClearPolling average, and one election analyst traces the slide to Iran. A Washington Post survey...
North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives...
Xi's first Pyongyang visit in seven years, a ratified Russia pact, and a declaration that the arsenal is permanent: Andrew Latham on why the...
Last year North Korea's newest destroyer rolled over at its own launch, and the world assumed the program was finished for years. Instead Pyongyang...
The KN-23, North Korea's version the Russian Iskander missile, showed up to fight in the Ukraine war. And it isn't the same platform as...
Over at Stars and Stripes, I gave a quick interview that was integrated into larger analysis pieces concerning U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises (JME)...
Is it time for United States to pull out of South Korea? The case for staying is usually made in absolute terms: the troops...
Over at Voice of America (Korean Service), I was interviewed concerning the foreign policy ideas of certain Progressive Democrats when it comes to North...
Over at the Express (UK), I did a short interview on what could happen if Donald Trump decided to cut U.S. forces in South...
Back at the end of February, my bosses at the Center for the National Interest asked me what would happen if there was a...
