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Synopsis: This piece argues that a U.S. raid capturing Nicolás Maduro—paired with a broader strike campaign—may resemble Russia’s failed decapitation attempt in Ukraine in...
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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...
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 complete SR-72 Darkstar guide: the 2013 reveal, Lockheed's statements, the 2018 vanishing, the Top Gun mockup, and where the Mach 6 program stands...
The Navy released a request for information on August 25 for the Silent Anvil Air-Launched Torpedo. The idea is to release the weapon from...
Satellite imagery in August showed four S-400 launchers destroyed at Gelendzhik. The next day Ukraine said boat-launched drones burned two more in Crimea. The...
As the British Royal Navy faces a real shipyard crisis and a shrinking submarine fleet, it is decommissioning its first retired nuclear-powered attack submarine,...
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...
Rezaei's threat goes beyond the strait: no oil leaving the Gulf by any route if neighbors cooperate. In practice that would mean strikes on...
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,...
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.
Synopsis: This piece argues that a U.S. raid capturing Nicolás Maduro—paired with a broader strike campaign—may resemble Russia’s failed decapitation attempt in Ukraine in...
Synopsis: Alexander the Great’s famous quote about “sheep led by a lion” isn’t just a meme—it’s a field manual on leadership. -Raised in Macedon,...
Synopsis: President Trump’s proposed “Trump-class” guided-missile battleship, BBG(X), is designed to sound like a revival of American sea power—but the concept is strategically mismatched...
Key Points and Summary – As Pentagon leaders float changes to the combatant command system, the bigger—and more consequential—target sits upstream: the military services...
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s PAK DA is pitched as a next-generation, subsonic stealth bomber meant to replace aging Tu-95s and complement upgraded...
