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What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy is transitioning from the aging Ohio-class submarines to the next-generation Columbia-class SSBNs, ensuring the future of...
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HMC Ships Moncton and Nanaimo, Canada's last two Kingston-class coastal vessels, are scheduled to be paid off in 2028. The Continental Defence Corvette intended...
An executive order issued on 13 August 2026 directs the Navy to replace the electromagnetic launch system on the fourth Ford-class carrier with steam...
Canada's Army modernization strategy, Inflection Point 2025, states that the Army's sole remaining armoured regiment has a single squadron of tanks that are both...
In April 1997, President Roman Herzog told Germany it needed a Ruck — a jolt — to break out of national lethargy and undertake...
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...
In 1997, Iran inspected a Moldovan fleet of MiG-29 fighters, including 14 Fulcrum-Cs American officials described as nuclear-capable. Washington used Nunn-Lugar funds to buy...
Forty-seven days after the Soviet Union dissolved, USS Baton Rouge and the Russian attack submarine K-276 collided near the Northern Fleet’s main bases. Neither...
Russia began overhauling Admiral Kuznetsov after its troubled Syria deployment. Then the PD-50 drydock sank, a 70-ton crane tore through the flight deck, and...
A Mk 24 magnesium flare ignited inside USS Oriskany’s forward locker on October 26, 1966. Rocket warheads detonated, smoke swept through officers’ quarters, and...
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...
Dr. Michael Rubin argues that Israel's targeted killing campaign against Palestinian militants a quarter of a century ago ultimately produced two decades of relative...
Since Khamenei took over in March, Iran's Supreme National Security Council has had three secretaries. Ali Larijani was killed in an airstrike a few...
Iran's strategy is to drag the war out. James Jay Carafano argues that protraction is the only card the IRGC holds, and that Trump...
Trump calls the strait "sort of open." Iran calls the arrangement "a new and different model." Last June, vague wording in a similar deal...
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.
North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives...
Xi's first Pyongyang visit in seven years, a ratified Russia pact, and a declaration that the arsenal is permanent: Andrew Latham on why the...
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...
What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy is transitioning from the aging Ohio-class submarines to the next-generation Columbia-class SSBNs, ensuring the future of...
Article Summary: Ukraine’s long-awaited F-16s have arrived, but significant limitations may hinder their effectiveness. The aircraft, sourced from Denmark and the Netherlands, are older...
Article Summary: France has officially delivered Mirage 2000-5 fighters to Ukraine, strengthening its air force with a high-performance jet capable of both air-to-air and...
Key Points and Summary: The U.S. military’s recruiting crisis has been widely debated, with Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claiming that “wokeness” hurt...
Key Point: A recent Department of Defense report sheds shocking light on the shortcomings of the Dark Eagle hypersonic missile’s testing. What You Need...
