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Key Points and Summary: An uneven peace in Ukraine might seem appealing to stop the fighting, but it could dangerously embolden Vladimir Putin. History...
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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...
Britain set out to build its army a next-generation fighting vehicle. What $8 billion produced, according to a scathing parliamentary report, is a machine...
China just flew something new over Shaanxi Province: a jet-powered aircraft built to carry a hundred smaller drones and release them in a swarm....
Canada has finally chosen a submarine matched to the three oceans and opening Arctic it has to defend. The decision is sound. But a...
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...
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...
President Trump arrived at the NATO summit in Ankara and threatened to withdraw substantial U.S. forces from Europe unless Denmark softens its grip on...
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...
Last year North Korea's newest destroyer rolled over at its own launch, and the world assumed the program was finished for years. Instead Pyongyang...
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...
Key Points and Summary: An uneven peace in Ukraine might seem appealing to stop the fighting, but it could dangerously embolden Vladimir Putin. History...
Throughout his run for president, Donald Trump threatened new tariffs. When he took office, he vowed to implement them, on China, Canada and Mexico,...
The increasingly fraught endgame to the Russia-Ukraine war reflects a larger ongoing debate in the US policy community about who is ultimately responsible for...
In the blink of an eye, the roles have reversed. The U.S. – which had been Ukraine’s biggest arms supplier – has suspended military...
Underlying Donald Trump’s 2025 ‘sort of’ State of the Union address (technically, it was a speech to a joint session of Congress) – delivered...
