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Coverage of Chinese support for Russia focuses on what one retired US intelligence official calls MDO — missiles, drones and oil. What Moscow is...
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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 vote was 424 hands in a half-empty hall on the assembly's last day, and the definition's third clause — cleared the neighborhood —...
The US Navy has said for months that it will select a final prime contractor for the sixth-generation, carrier-capable F/A-XX by the end of...
The most quoted commencement line ever is a quotation, credited by the speaker at the podium — the farewell message of the Whole Earth...
In 1986 the Air Force planned to buy 750 F-22s. It built 187. Only 184 remain in the inventory today, and one currently flying...
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.
Coverage of Chinese support for Russia focuses on what one retired US intelligence official calls MDO — missiles, drones and oil. What Moscow is...
Satellite imagery shows Russia installing large overhead anti-drone nets across submarine berths at the Rybachiy nuclear submarine base on the Kamchatka Peninsula — the...
Since Khamenei took over in March, Iran's Supreme National Security Council has had three secretaries. Ali Larijani was killed in an airstrike a few...
When looking at the combined decline of the Ohio-class SSGNs and the Ticonderoga-class cruisers, that’s 1,316 missile-launch positions taken off the board without any...
The physical realities of life at sea—the rigorous conditions and exposure to the elements—mean that these vessels have finite shelf lives. The Ticonderoga-class was...
