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Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin declined to label Vice President Kamala Harris as President Biden's optimal running mate for the forthcoming 2024 elections during an...
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The Iran war was as close to a pure air campaign as America has fought, and James Holmes — who holds the J.C. Wylie...
Trump calling Taiwan a "bargaining chip" is the headline, but Denny Roy argues the deeper story is structural: a Chinese military that makes intervention...
The Navy finally settled it: the new battleship will be nuclear-powered — and that single decision put the $17 billion Trump-class in direct competition...
For weeks, an August 18 deadline loomed: the day a U.S.–Iran understanding expired, and, by President Trump's own warning, the day fighting over the...
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 US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
Iran: A War at the Wrong Time and Place: As the war in Iran continues and analysts debate how long it will last and...
Strategic expert Andrew A. Michta explores how Russia is capitalizing on the Iran War to consolidate gains in Europe. With U.S. resources drained and...
In 1967, Pete Knight flew Mach 6.72 and was called the fastest man alive. For thirty years, the Space Shuttle made that number look...
On October 3, 1967, Pete Knight landed the X-15 having flown faster than any pilot before or since — Mach 6.72. Then he climbed...
America's next bomber enters July 2026 ahead of its own schedule, built by a contractor losing money on every early airframe, and wanted in...
The U-2 was sold to Eisenhower as invisible to Soviet radar. The invisibility lasted exactly zero missions. What Kelly Johnson built to replace it...
Iran is moving to charge ships for passing through the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway that carries a fifth of the world's oil...
A film celebrating ten years of China's Y-20 transport slipped in something no other country has shown on official camera: a sixth-generation fighter refueling...
A decade after it surfaced, China's H-20 has no flying prototype and no production line. The reasons are industrial, not financial: an intercontinental flying...
A new 1.5-gigawatt project in Utah will use five 300-megawatt Holtec small modular reactors rather than two massive conventional ones, part of a broader...
The diplomatic center of gravity in the Middle East has decisively shifted to Riyadh. On June 23, 2026, talks between Iranian Majlis Speaker Mohammed...
Germany still must address a readiness issue: large portions of the army are not considered fully combat-ready, with some readiness estimates for land forces...
Vice President JD Vance has hailed his Switzerland negotiations over Iran's nuclear program as diplomatic progress. Middle East Forum scholar Dr. Michael Rubin argues...
Ukraine hasn't moved the front — but its drones have broken the war's one-way character, reaching the Russian heartland Putin promised was safe. The...
The KN-23, North Korea's version the Russian Iskander missile, showed up to fight in the Ukraine war. And it isn't the same platform as...
On May 21, 2025, a brand-new North Korean destroyer rolled over and partially capsized at its own launch ceremony — with Kim Jong Un...
Fake Russian IDs, Orders Never to Be Captured, and 50% Casualties: Inside North Korea’s Secret War in Ukraine The Russian Army has sustained nearly...
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Bruce E. Bechtol Jr., a political science professor and proliferation expert, evaluates the strategic partnership between Iran and North...
Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin declined to label Vice President Kamala Harris as President Biden's optimal running mate for the forthcoming 2024 elections during an...
The trial is set for May 2024. Assuming status quo, Donald Trump will be the GOP’s presidential nominee by that point. Whether he can...
On Wednesday, the Ukrainian military showed Russia and the world that it’s not afraid to undertake complex missions against tough targets inside Ukraine and...
Just as Russia’s erstwhile strongman Vladimir Putin met with North Korea’s great leader with cup in hand, the Levada Center, a respectable Moscow-based polling...
Is AOC Married? House Ethics Committee filings on behalf of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or AOC, D-N.Y., raise the question of whether or not the...
