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The Biden administration is reportedly considering convening a new conference to determine Afghanistan’s future. The new conference would essentially repeat the 2001 Bonn Conference...
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The Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative emerged from US Army Europe and Africa and NATO's Allied Land Command as a concept for restoring deterrence by...
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 five qualities he listed as missing — strategy, operational art, tactics, generalship, soldiering — were exactly what the previous hundred hours had proven...
His point was never that aliens must be wicked — it was that we would be the Native Americans in the encounter, and good...
The letter says der Alte, the Old One, not God — and it went to the very friend who'd win the Nobel for the...
The three words were the Academy's motto, not his — what he brought to them was the century's most spectacular military life: the first...
Of the 1.5 billion barrels in emergency stocks, the IEA cannot order the commercial half released, leaving governments under a billion. The American reserve...
The Houthis have no warships. It doesn't need any. A blockade holds if shipowners and insurers decide the passage is not worth the risk,...
Washington redirected 55 commercial vessels away from Iranian ports as of Sunday, up from 35 a week earlier, while the Kpler intelligence firm counted...
Supply boats bring food and water. Wages arrive late or not at all. A union leader likens it to imprisonment, and one Indian sailor...
Analysts dismissed American control of the Strait of Hormuz as a near-impossible task. The US government now says it has been helping tankers move...
Drones reached Moscow on three of the last five nights. A ballistic missile would not extend Ukraine's reach so much as compress Russia's warning...
Georgia Gilholy reports on Trump's map post declaring Hormuz 'New U.S. Territory,' a vessel struck off Oman hours earlier per UK Maritime Trade Operations,...
When it comes to severe economic pressure, Washington has massive options between everything and nothing. Something in the middle that hurts Iran a lot...
Trump ordered Ulchi Freedom Shield cut from eleven days to five before Kim Jong-un had agreed to anything in return. Kim Yo-jong dismissed the...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine since late 2023. The early shots missed by kilometers. Later ones did not. That combat...
Iran's Shahab-1 came from the Scud-B and reached 300km. The Khorramshahr, derived from North Korea's Musudan, reaches 2,000km — a 6.7-fold increase in reach.
The Biden administration is reportedly considering convening a new conference to determine Afghanistan’s future. The new conference would essentially repeat the 2001 Bonn Conference...
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command supremo Admiral Philip Davidson wittingly or unwittingly fortified deterrence in the Western Pacific this week. Admiral Davidson told a webinar at...
Survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault are now at greater risk because of President Joe Biden’s executive order on transgenderism. Although the heat...
Today’s very strong job numbers have to raise a basic question that economic policymakers would ignore at their peril: Does the U.S. economy really...
Pope Francis will begin a historic visit to Iraq tomorrow, the first in Papal history. In Iraq, Francis will meet political leaders in Baghdad,...
