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Russia’s Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier has a long and infamous history. Originally meant to serve as the flagship of the Soviet Navy, the carrier...
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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...
When Kimber, a 1911 house, unveiled the K6 at SHOT Show 2016, Lucky Gunner called it a big gamble. It worked: a 23-ounce stainless...
Satellite imagery obtained by Aviation Week shows the SR-71A displayed at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards has been moved, and NASA has...
In 2013 Lockheed Martin publicly outlined the SR-72, an unmanned or optionally piloted Mach 6 successor to the SR-71 using a turbine-to-scramjet combined-cycle engine,...
On October 26, 2006, a Chinese Type 039 Song-class diesel submarine surfaced within five miles of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk and her...
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...
Russia’s Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier has a long and infamous history. Originally meant to serve as the flagship of the Soviet Navy, the carrier...
Could We Ever See A Draft Again In the US Military?: The US military ended conscription in 1973 and has been with the All-Volunteer...
It’s now been a week since The Atlantic broke its story that a group of top Trump Administration officials had discussed plans to attack...
Pakistan’s Nukes, An Even Bigger Threat Than Iran?: The United States, Israel, and much of Western Europe have long worked together to ensure Iran...
President Joseph Aoun is off to a strong start in Lebanon. He shepherded Karim Souaid, a professional banker with a staunch record of rejecting...
