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The 1947 book got it in fourteen words; the internet adds words it never printed. Patton's good-plan-now doctrine rebuilt II Corps in days, crossed...
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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 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 three words were the Academy's motto, not his — what he brought to them was the century's most spectacular military life: the first...
Most of the carrier-design specialists who spoke to 19FortyFive were also quick to point out the negative implications of going back to a steam-powered...
He spoke from memory because reading was his lifelong enemy — and that provenance detail unlocks the real Patton: the repeated year at West...
MANTA remained a largely conceptual plane. In 2003, NASA even published a history of its experimental aircraft concepts, including the X-44 in that compendium...
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...
Supply boats bring food and water. Wages arrive late or not at all. A union leader likens it to imprisonment, and one Indian sailor...
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.
The 1947 book got it in fourteen words; the internet adds words it never printed. Patton's good-plan-now doctrine rebuilt II Corps in days, crossed...
Killed on live television in 1992, the B-2 became a $2.13 billion bomber by division: a $44.7 billion invention spread across just 21 aircraft...
An F-15E Strike Eagle pilot was shot down over Kuwait in the opening days of Operation Epic Fury by a Kuwaiti fighter in what...
The original plan was to procure 100 B-21 Raiders. Adm. Samuel Paparo, who commands US Indo-Pacific Command, says he would favour 200 - "not...
The Admiral Nakhimov entered the yard in 1999 and sailed again in 2025 — a refit that quadrupled in cost, outlived its sister ships,...
