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Pulling Trump from the ballot would only antagonize the already deep political divide in America. It would likely create yet another constitutional crisis involving...
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When it comes to severe economic pressure, Washington has massive options between everything and nothing. Something in the middle that hurts Iran a lot...
US President Donald J. Trump is desperately looking for a tool to beat Iran into submission. Sanctions are probably not it.
Even during genuine unipolar periods, pursuing excessively ambitious goals placed severe strain on America’s military, economic, and political systems. Attempting to do so now...
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...
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...
The label “supercarrier” isn’t mere hyperbole and isn’t applied to USS Abraham Lincoln just because she was named for one of America’s most beloved...
As of 2020 the Navy had spent roughly $500 million on railgun development over seventeen years. The program's funding was diverted in 2021 after...
China has a credible route to sink a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in a war. In fact, it was this very topic that led...
Can Trump strike a deal directly with the IRGC, then? Probably, at a price nobody in the administration has said out loud they are...
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...
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,...
In April 1997, President Roman Herzog told Germany it needed a Ruck — a jolt — to break out of national lethargy and undertake...
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...
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.
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...
Pulling Trump from the ballot would only antagonize the already deep political divide in America. It would likely create yet another constitutional crisis involving...
The conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza are a major challenge for the Biden Administration, but it is handling them pretty well. The wars are...
If Donald Trump returns to power in 2025, conservatives could get their wish. They have talked for decades about fundamentally reshaping the federal bureaucracy...
Donald Trump’s demands for absolute loyalty are well-documented. Now, however, Rolling Stone is taking a closer look at Trump’s expectations – that his people will offer unflinching loyalty...
Other than Trump, it appears Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy are polling well enough that none are likely to leave the race...
