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True to his nature of always trying to demean or diminish his opposite number in any interaction, Russian President Vladimir Putin was roughly an...
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The Seawolf-class submarine was the quietest, fastest and most heavily armed attack boat anyone had built. The Navy stopped at three anyway. The 1993...
Supporters of the Ford-class counter that the carrier’s power generation and sortie capacity make it uniquely capable of sustaining high-intensity air operations, and that...
The reactors on a Nimitz-class carrier are buried behind structural compartments, radiation shielding, machinery spaces and armor. That is deliberate, and in combat it...
Speaking in Baghdad on August 20, Iran's parliament speaker warned that military power counts for nothing if the people are hungry. Four days later...
German Foreign Minister Wadephul's fourth Kyiv visit — two days before Ukraine's Independence Day — capped an accelerating shift: Berlin is becoming Ukraine's principal...
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 F-22 Raptor carries an internal 20mm M61A2 Vulcan rotary cannon with 480 rounds. The F-35A carries a 25mm GAU-22/A with 181. The Chengdu...
The strongest argument for the Glock 26 has nothing to do with the gun itself. It is that a shooter who trains on a...
HMS Prince of Wales displaces 65,000 tons, runs 920 feet, carries a flight deck of roughly 13,000 square metres, makes better than 25 knots...
Ten rounds in a pistol this thin was a genuine improvement over the 6-round Glock 43, and it is still behind the field. The...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has unveiled Operation Economic Outcast: secondary sanctions across five sectors and more than sixty targets, with no relief attached. Iran's...
Rezaei's threat goes beyond the strait: no oil leaving the Gulf by any route if neighbors cooperate. In practice that would mean strikes on...
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,...
American forces struck Iranian positions preparing to fire mine-carrying missiles into the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran answered with a handful of missiles that reportedly...
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,...
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.
True to his nature of always trying to demean or diminish his opposite number in any interaction, Russian President Vladimir Putin was roughly an...
The United States Army is moving into a new era. The engagements that put the U.S. Army at the center of overseas conflicts for...
Summary and Key Points: China’s new tail-less fighter, likely called the J-36, recently completed its second test flight, fueling speculation it’s a sixth-generation stealth...
Summary and Key Points: The latest release of JFK assassination documents has failed to uncover a “smoking gun” or new proof of conspiracy. -President...
Summary and Key Points: The Deutschland-class cruisers, often referred to as “pocket battleships,” were a series of three heavy cruisers built by Germany in...
