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Synopsis: Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, remains America’s most iconic voice on the human condition. -From his humble beginnings in Hannibal, Missouri, to...
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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...
Canada’s review of the F-35 buy, begun in March 2025 amid Trump’s tariff threats, has a problem bigger than which jet to pick: pilots.
On May 6, 1956, off the Virginia Capes, the destroyer USS Eaton, radar dead for four days, turned hard at 27 knots toward a...
Project 885 or Yasen-class took from a mid-1970s drawing board to 2010 to deliver Severodvinsk, and Russia kept paying through the Soviet collapse to...
Late on November 2, 1985, as the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise recovered jets 100 miles west of San Diego and the bridge dealt with...
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...
Synopsis: Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, remains America’s most iconic voice on the human condition. -From his humble beginnings in Hannibal, Missouri, to...
Summary and Key Points: The F-15EX Eagle II has officially deployed to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, marking a significant technological leap for...
Summary and Key Points: While aircraft carriers and battleships command the headlines, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is the true backbone of the U.S. Navy....
Summary and Key Points: The Leopard 2 is widely hailed as the gold standard of Western armor, boasting a 1,500-horsepower engine and a lethal...
Summary and Key Points: The $13 billion Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier represents the ultimate high-stakes gamble for U.S. naval dominance. -Despite soaring costs...
