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Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

German Foreign Minister Wadephul's fourth Kyiv visit — two days before Ukraine's Independence Day — capped an accelerating shift: Berlin is becoming Ukraine's principal...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Aerospace & Defense

Aerospace & Defense

China's first carrier, the Liaoning, was a refitted Soviet hull with a ski jump and no catapults when it entered service in 2012. Fourteen...

Aerospace & Defense

Having used the M16A1, M16A2, and the M4 Carbine, I can say that Colt's family of weapons is excellent. The M16 for sure improved.

Aerospace & Defense

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle told reporters on 22 August that the Navy had completed its work on the F/A-XX and that...

Aerospace & Defense

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 —...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

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...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

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,...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Washington redirected 55 commercial vessels away from Iranian ports as of Sunday, up from 35 a week earlier, while the Kpler intelligence firm counted...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Supply boats bring food and water. Wages arrive late or not at all. A union leader likens it to imprisonment, and one Indian sailor...

The Embassy

The Embassy

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...

The Embassy

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...

The Embassy

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,...

The Embassy

When it comes to severe economic pressure, Washington has massive options between everything and nothing. Something in the middle that hurts Iran a lot...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

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...

Hermit Kingdom

As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...

Hermit Kingdom

Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine since late 2023. The early shots missed by kilometers. Later ones did not. That combat...

Hermit Kingdom

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.

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