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Russia's titanium Sierra remains an engineering achievement rather than a production model. Two Sierra II submarines remain associated with the Russian Northern Fleet, while...
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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 Record Is Clear: One could make a compelling argument that the M4 Sherman was a better-designed tank, but the T-34-85 was exactly the...
After a week in which the story flipped from Tehran trouncing Trump to the Iranians being in serious trouble, it is time to look...
Rostec has announced sixteen separate deliveries of Su-35S fighters since 2022, each consisting of two or three aircraft. That puts Russian receipts somewhere between...
In 1979 the supercarrier USS Ranger collided with the Liberian-flagged tanker SS Fortune roughly 30 miles east of Singapore, in one of the busiest...
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,...
Washington redirected 55 commercial vessels away from Iranian ports as of Sunday, up from 35 a week earlier, while the Kpler intelligence firm counted...
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.
Russia's titanium Sierra remains an engineering achievement rather than a production model. Two Sierra II submarines remain associated with the Russian Northern Fleet, while...
The maximalists wanted regime change, the minimalists wanted nothing, and the doubters see only waffling. Carafano's answer: the victor gets to define victory —...
Supporting the landings on Tinian in 1944, USS Colorado was struck 22 times by Japanese shore batteries. Forty-three of her crew were killed and...
The Navy planned twenty-nine Seawolf-class attack submarines to take on the Soviet fleet. After the Cold War ended, Congress reduced the programme to twelve,...
Thirty-seven percent of the US Navy's nuclear attack submarines cannot deploy because the shipyards cannot repair them fast enough. USS Boise, a Los Angeles-class...
