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5 Worst Submarines to Ever Sail: Summary and Key Points -Some submarines were masterpieces on paper—and cautionary tales in service. -The Soviet K-278 Komsomolets...
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Sabotage at Leipzig, Swindon, and Skarżysko-Kamienna. A curfew across the river from Narva. New garrisons at Petrozavodsk, Lupche-Savino, and Pechenga pointing at Finland's 830-mile...
The Witkoff-Kushner shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv ended, predictably, without a breakthrough — and Andrew Michta argues the failure reveals something deeper than bad...
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...
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...
The Glock Safe Action System is three passive mechanical interlocks in the fire control group, and not one of them depends on the shooter...
When Kimber, a 1911 house, unveiled the K6 at SHOT Show 2016, Lucky Gunner called it a big gamble. It worked: a 23-ounce stainless...
Satellite imagery obtained by Aviation Week shows the SR-71A displayed at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards has been moved, and NASA has...
In 2013 Lockheed Martin publicly outlined the SR-72, an unmanned or optionally piloted Mach 6 successor to the SR-71 using a turbine-to-scramjet combined-cycle engine,...
Four ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz Thursday against a 10-day average of 16. Iran said it hit tanker Trend on Friday. Brent is...
Jobs dropped out of Reed College and stayed on as what he called a "drop-in," sitting in on classes that interested him. One was...
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has,...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has unveiled Operation Economic Outcast: secondary sanctions across five sectors and more than sixty targets, with no relief attached. Iran's...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls Ukraine a “dangerous stalemate,” and the Kremlin agrees. Russia netted 104 square kilometers from January to late May,...
Iran is reinforcing its borders and nuclear sites, piling dirt mounds around Natanz and Pickaxe Mountain, and urging civilians to take free weapons training...
Nine months after Riyadh gutted Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council, the Houthis took the port of Mokha on the Bab el-Mandeb, then struck King Khalid...
The rial has hit 2.5 million to the dollar, inflation is projected near 69 percent, and Iranian oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz...
President Trump says he gets along with Kim Jong Un and wants a new summit before the end of 2026, along with smaller US-South...
Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...
American doctrine promises that any North Korean nuclear attack will end the Kim regime. The Iran war has just tested that assumption. The United...
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...
5 Worst Submarines to Ever Sail: Summary and Key Points -Some submarines were masterpieces on paper—and cautionary tales in service. -The Soviet K-278 Komsomolets...
Summary and Key Points: USS Gerald R. Ford is extending its June 24, 2025, deployment and shifting to the Middle East amid rising tensions...
Summary and Key Points: Hedgehog 2025 in Estonia put 16,000 troops from 12 NATO nations into a battlefield made transparent by drones. -A 10-person...
Summary and Key Points: Why the U.S. Navy Built Only 3 Seawolf-class Submarines -The Seawolf-class was built to be the Navy’s next leap in...
F-15I Was Built for Long-Range Strikes—and the F-15EX Wasn’t: Summary and Key Points for This Article -The F-15 began as an air-to-air dominance fighter,...
