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The Tupolev PAK DA (Prospective Aviation Complex for Long-Range Aviation), also known as “Poslannik” (Envoy), is supposed to be a significant leap in Russia’s...
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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 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...
Park the Air Force's newest fighter beside one built in the 1980s and you cannot tell them apart. That is exactly the misunderstanding. Beneath...
The F-15N Sea Eagle was faster, nimbler, and cheaper to run than the Tomcat. It couldn't carry the one weapon the Navy actually needed.
Retired Lt. Gen. David Deptula rebuts the argument that Operation Epic Fury proved air power's limits, calling it a failure of "land-centric thinking," not...
The Air Force validated the AGM-158C LRASM on the B-1B Lancer at Dyess Air Force Base, giving the Cold War-era bomber a ship-killing role...
A single Ukrainian drone forced Russia's largest refinery, in Omsk, to halt operations, knocking out units that make roughly 75 percent of its output...
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...
Cheap drones can make a Chinese assault on Taiwan bloodier and a quick victory less likely — but they don't repeal geography or remove...
The expectation that cutting U.S. aid would force Ukraine to fold is dead: Russia cannot win this war without a mass mobilization or nuclear...
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 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...
The Tupolev PAK DA (Prospective Aviation Complex for Long-Range Aviation), also known as “Poslannik” (Envoy), is supposed to be a significant leap in Russia’s...
The combat realities in Ukraine and the Red Sea continue to drive accelerated Pentagon action to engineer and deploy a new generation of paradigm-changing...
China already has the largest navy in the world, but it trails the United States in one area: the size and number of its...
Elon Musk’s turn towards Trumpism, as well as his work for DOGE, has had another effect: It’s completely changed what it means to be...
Summary and Key Points: The Ticonderoga-class cruisers, introduced in the 1980s, have been vital U.S. Navy air-defense assets due to their powerful Aegis Combat...
