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Key Point and Summary: France’s Rubis-class nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs), despite being the smallest in operational service, pack powerful capabilities in stealth, anti-submarine warfare,...
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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...
Key Points and Summary – The recent NATO summit in The Hague, where European allies agreed to a new 5% of GDP defense spending...
The Trump administration made the Russia-Ukraine ceasefire its priority foreign policy initiative shortly after the inauguration. Setting aside Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric that he...
The conventional wisdom in Washington is that the Iran ceasefire now frees up American diplomatic energy to refocus on the war in Ukraine—but that...
The Boeing EA-18G Growler is the most strategically important fighter in the U.S. Navy that almost nobody talks about—the only crewed tactical jammer in...
Operation Epic Fury against Iran has showcased America’s unmatched power-projection capabilities and the extraordinary overmatch the U.S. military wields against global adversaries. Much as...
Summary and Key Points: While most of the U.S. Navy’s modernization portfolio is struggling, delayed, or stuck on a Pentagon slide, one platform is...
A new study has uncovered a deeply troubling problem in the world’s network of undersea commercial tunnels: rubber GINA gaskets are degrading 35% faster...
Israel just approved a massive new fighter purchase—roughly 25 F-35I Adir stealth fighters and 25 F-15IA aircraft—as part of a $119 billion post-war force...
Benjamin Franklin said it best: “Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.” The...
Thirty-five national veterans groups—including the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America—have just endorsed the...
Vladimir Putin’s paranoia has surged to an all-time high—the Russian president now reportedly spends his days and nights shuttling between underground bunker complexes, terrified...
The leader of Russia’s Communist Party just warned Vladimir Putin from the floor of the State Duma that the country could face a “revolutionary...
Benjamin Franklin once said it best: “There never was a good war, or a bad peace.” Written in a letter to Josiah Quincy, Sr....
Grant the optimistic scenario: The Iran ceasefire holds. Diplomats produce something they can call a framework. The immediate military pressure eases, and Washington declares...
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...
Summary and Key Points: Reuben F. Johnson, a veteran defense technology analyst and Casimir Pulaski Foundation fellow, scrutinizes the Ninth Congress of the Workers’...
Korea’s Division Isn’t a Glitch Anymore. It’s a Feature of the New Order The division of Korea was always understood to be temporary. In...
Key Point and Summary: France’s Rubis-class nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs), despite being the smallest in operational service, pack powerful capabilities in stealth, anti-submarine warfare,...
That 1 Word: EXPENSIVE – The Ford-class aircraft carrier program has been monumentally expensive – starting with the final cost of the USS Gerald...
Key Points and Takeaways: The USS John C. Stennis, a Nimitz-class carrier, is currently undergoing a midlife refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) that’s now...
Since the start of the second Trump presidency, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been taking a hammer to the federal bureaucracy,...
Key Points and Summary: Japan has successfully tested a railgun aboard a naval ship, surpassing the US Navy’s $500 million, decade-long unsuccessful effort. Railguns...
