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The Trump administration is facing a diplomatic crisis in the world of sports, with significant controversies surrounding both the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan...
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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...
Seventeen officers, about 100 enlisted sailors and Marines, and a 2026 Maneuvers Manual that sorts 105 stunts into High, Low and Flat Shows: that’s...
Lockheed never flight-tested the SR-71 past Mach 3.2, yet Ed Yeilding and J.T. Vida cruised at Mach 3.3 for most of the Blackbird’s final...
Every SR-71 “flaw” was a trade. Its 80-percent-titanium airframe stretched by inches at 2,000-plus mph, so 1960s sealants couldn’t hold the integral tanks shut...
Open-source trackers put China’s J-20 fleet at roughly 500 to 520 as of mid-2026, against the 550 to 580 F-35As the US Air Force...
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...
Signing the largest Russia sanctions package to date and then floating a diesel arrangement looks contradictory only if one assumes the two acts are...
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...
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...
The Trump administration is facing a diplomatic crisis in the world of sports, with significant controversies surrounding both the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Air Force’s B-2 Spirit recently executed “Operation Midnight Hammer,” a demanding precision strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities at...
Summary and Key Points: The USS Kentucky (BB-66) occupies a unique place in naval history as the “ghost” of the Iowa class—a 57,000-ton fast...
Summary and Key Points: Russia’s next-generation T-14 Armata is not a technological failure or a “parade prop,” but rather a casualty of the shifting...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Army has debuted the M1E3 Abrams prototype in Detroit, showcasing a lighter, faster, and more maneuverable tank designed...
