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The second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
Iran: A War at the Wrong Time and Place: As the war in Iran continues and analysts debate how long it will last and...
Strategic expert Andrew A. Michta explores how Russia is capitalizing on the Iran War to consolidate gains in Europe. With U.S. resources drained and...
Too many registrations on the flight plan, ten minutes in Austrian airspace, and photos on a security council's table a week later. The F-117...
The US Navy built the deadliest air-to-air missile of its era, fired it in anger three times, and hit nothing. The pilots who made...
Four Cold War fighters wrote the playbook Ukraine just bought, and almost nobody outside Sweden remembers them. One went to war for the UN...
In October 2001, Boeing lost the largest fighter program ever conceived and nearly lost the fighter business with it. For twenty-four years the company...
Iran is moving to charge ships for passing through the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway that carries a fifth of the world's oil...
A film celebrating ten years of China's Y-20 transport slipped in something no other country has shown on official camera: a sixth-generation fighter refueling...
A decade after it surfaced, China's H-20 has no flying prototype and no production line. The reasons are industrial, not financial: an intercontinental flying...
A new 1.5-gigawatt project in Utah will use five 300-megawatt Holtec small modular reactors rather than two massive conventional ones, part of a broader...
Trump calling Taiwan a "bargaining chip" is the headline, but Denny Roy argues the deeper story is structural: a Chinese military that makes intervention...
For weeks, an August 18 deadline loomed: the day a U.S.–Iran understanding expired, and, by President Trump's own warning, the day fighting over the...
The diplomatic center of gravity in the Middle East has decisively shifted to Riyadh. On June 23, 2026, talks between Iranian Majlis Speaker Mohammed...
Germany still must address a readiness issue: large portions of the army are not considered fully combat-ready, with some readiness estimates for land forces...
The KN-23, North Korea's version the Russian Iskander missile, showed up to fight in the Ukraine war. And it isn't the same platform as...
On May 21, 2025, a brand-new North Korean destroyer rolled over and partially capsized at its own launch ceremony — with Kim Jong Un...
Fake Russian IDs, Orders Never to Be Captured, and 50% Casualties: Inside North Korea’s Secret War in Ukraine The Russian Army has sustained nearly...
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Bruce E. Bechtol Jr., a political science professor and proliferation expert, evaluates the strategic partnership between Iran and North...
China has amassed a hulking arsenal of long-range ballistic weaponry that boasts significant destructive potential. In addition to sheer firepower, China’s ballistic missiles also...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers, crucial for global naval dominance, are facing severe delivery delays, now pushed...
The B-52 Stratofortress has been the backbone of American strategic air power since its introduction in the 1950s. The B-52’s role in the early...
Summary and Top Points: The USS George Washington recently completed an unprecedented six-year midlife overhaul, exposing serious challenges in maintaining America’s aging nuclear-powered carriers....
The biggest obstacle to peace in the Russia-Ukraine war is not Vladimir Putin, it’s not Donald Trump, it’s only one man: Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
