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Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s next-generation F/A-XX fighter promises significantly greater combat range—around 955 miles—than the Super Hornets it replaces. -Yet, concerns...
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The Trump administration’s deal to allow Russian diesel into the United States blindsided Kyiv and Europe alike — halting peace talks, triggering threats to...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls Ukraine a “dangerous stalemate,” and the Kremlin agrees. Russia netted 104 square kilometers from January to late May,...
Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has set June 2027 as the deadline for bringing the Popular Mobilization Forces under state authority. Five factions have reportedly...
Iran is reinforcing its borders and nuclear sites, piling dirt mounds around Natanz and Pickaxe Mountain, and urging civilians to take free weapons training...
Sabotage at Leipzig, Swindon, and Skarżysko-Kamienna. A curfew across the river from Narva. New garrisons at Petrozavodsk, Lupche-Savino, and Pechenga pointing at Finland's 830-mile...
The Witkoff-Kushner shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv ended, predictably, without a breakthrough — and Andrew Michta argues the failure reveals something deeper than bad...
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...
FCAS died in June when Macron and Merz pulled the plug and Germany walked to GCAP, so France is going it alone: a national...
On October 2, 2021, USS Connecticut (SSN-22) ran into a seamount at speed in the South China Sea, wrecking her bow, forward ballast tanks...
Proposed in 2025 as the centerpiece of the Golden Fleet, BBG-1 USS Defiant would be 840 to 880 feet long, 30,000 to 35,000 tons,...
Nobody walked off the street into an SR-71 cockpit. Candidates were already seasoned jet pilots, and the transition to qualified Blackbird pilot or reconnaissance...
Four ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz Thursday against a 10-day average of 16. Iran said it hit tanker Trend on Friday. Brent is...
Jobs dropped out of Reed College and stayed on as what he called a "drop-in," sitting in on classes that interested him. One was...
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has,...
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...
Nine months after Riyadh gutted Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council, the Houthis took the port of Mokha on the Bab el-Mandeb, then struck King Khalid...
The rial has hit 2.5 million to the dollar, inflation is projected near 69 percent, and Iranian oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz...
Twenty-five years on, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the US mistook quiet for peace. A RAND strategist argues it is doing...
The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies have all warned of an escalating Russian gray...
President Trump says he gets along with Kim Jong Un and wants a new summit before the end of 2026, along with smaller US-South...
Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...
American doctrine promises that any North Korean nuclear attack will end the Kim regime. The Iran war has just tested that assumption. The United...
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...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s next-generation F/A-XX fighter promises significantly greater combat range—around 955 miles—than the Super Hornets it replaces. -Yet, concerns...
The Ford-Class Has a New Problem: At issue are two of the carrier’s more advanced systems, which are apparently experiencing teething problems. Congressional testimony...
Throughout the Cold War, numerous defense designs came and went that didn’t have much influence on anything. The M551 Sheridan was one such vehicle....
The F/A-XX is an upcoming sixth-generation fighter currently being developed by the United States Navy. The project aims to replace the aging F/A-18 Hornet...
Artificial intelligence development faces a critical juncture, with growing bipartisan agreement on the need for independent oversight beyond industry self-regulation.
