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HMS Prince of Wales sailed from Portsmouth on 27 August 2022 for a three-month deployment to North America. Within two days the 65,000-tonne carrier...
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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...
Brazil acquired the 37-year-old French aircraft carrier Foch in 2000 for a reported $12 million, renaming it Sao Paulo. On May 17, 2005, a...
Sejjil Missle: Solid fuel means no fueling before launch, which shortens preparation and makes the launchers harder to catch. It is road-mobile, reportedly costs...
On March 21, 1984, the 80,000-ton carrier USS Kitty Hawk struck the Soviet nuclear attack submarine K-314 in the Sea of Japan. When the...
The Khorramshahr-4 is one of the most powerful and technically ambitious medium-range ballistic missiles in Iran’s arsenal.
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...
In April 1997, President Roman Herzog told Germany it needed a Ruck — a jolt — to break out of national lethargy and undertake...
Dr. Michael Rubin argues that Israel's targeted killing campaign against Palestinian militants a quarter of a century ago ultimately produced two decades of relative...
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...
Iran's strategy is to drag the war out. James Jay Carafano argues that protraction is the only card the IRGC holds, and that Trump...
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.
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...
HMS Prince of Wales sailed from Portsmouth on 27 August 2022 for a three-month deployment to North America. Within two days the 65,000-tonne carrier...
The Zumwalt class was designed around stealth, two 155mm guns and a 32-ship fleet. Cost growth cut the class to three, sending its unique...
Britain withdrew the Harrier in 2010 after 41 years in service and sold 72 airframes to the US Marine Corps as a spare-parts source....
Canada's Army modernization strategy, Inflection Point 2025, states that the Army's sole remaining armoured regiment has a single squadron of tanks that are both...
Australia's six Collins-class boats were the first submarines the country built at home, and were troubled almost from the outset — leaking gaskets, seawater...
