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In a significant move aimed at curbing tobacco consumption, the Biden administration is pushing forward with a proposal that could ban menthol cigarettes and...
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A B-2 flying from Missouri and a Tomahawk launched from a destroyer two hundred miles offshore can both hit a target that once required...
A 300-ship US Navy operates on a rotational cycle. One third is deployed on any given day, one third is training, and one third...
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.
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 F-22 has notionally been shot down by F-16s in the past, as well as an EA-18G Growler during a training exercise, with photographic...
The closest thing to medium aircraft carriers that the U.S. Navy has nowadays are the Amphibious Assault Ships (LHAs).
The DoD feared that developing a naval F-117 would be too expensive and would divert funding from other projects, such as the Joint Advanced...
How many B-21 Raider bombers? There’s also the question of how quickly Northrop Grumman’s production facilities and workers would be able to churn out...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
In a significant move aimed at curbing tobacco consumption, the Biden administration is pushing forward with a proposal that could ban menthol cigarettes and...
For the longest time, when one mentioned the subject of “ladies’ guns,” one thought of so-called “mouse guns,” i.e. pocket autopistols and mini-revolvers in...
It seems many of Donald Trump’s once allies are quickly turning into foes as yet another lawyer promises to testify against the former president...
Donald Trump has grown his lead in the Republican nomination contest, according to one major poll.
Reports circulated by the General SVR accounts on social media claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin suffered a heart attack. The account claims to...
