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Aircraft is staged for flight operations on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in support of Operation Epic Fury, Mar. 3, 2026. (U.S. Navy photo) Aircraft is staged for flight operations on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in support of Operation Epic Fury, Mar. 3, 2026. (U.S. Navy photo)

Aerospace & Defense

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...

Aerospace & Defense

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...

The Embassy

When it comes to severe economic pressure, Washington has massive options between everything and nothing. Something in the middle that hurts Iran a lot...

Aerospace & Defense

US President Donald J. Trump is desperately looking for a tool to beat Iran into submission. Sanctions are probably not it.

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Aerospace & Defense

Aerospace & Defense

Built in 102 days after North American refused to license-build P-40s, the Mustang became the war's decisive fighter the day the Merlin went in....

Aerospace & Defense

The Montana-class exists only as numbers: 70,965 tons full load, twelve 16-inch guns, armor built to stop its own shells, five ships assigned to...

Aerospace & Defense

What if the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter could be turned into a bomber? That was the idea behind the FB-22. It never occurred, and...

Aerospace & Defense

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...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

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...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

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,...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Washington redirected 55 commercial vessels away from Iranian ports as of Sunday, up from 35 a week earlier, while the Kpler intelligence firm counted...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Supply boats bring food and water. Wages arrive late or not at all. A union leader likens it to imprisonment, and one Indian sailor...

The Embassy

The Embassy

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,...

The Embassy

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...

The Embassy

In April 1997, President Roman Herzog told Germany it needed a Ruck — a jolt — to break out of national lethargy and undertake...

The Embassy

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...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine since late 2023. The early shots missed by kilometers. Later ones did not. That combat...

Hermit Kingdom

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.

Hermit Kingdom

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...

Hermit Kingdom

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...

Politics

Polling shows that Bidenomics is hurting Joe Biden’s re-election chances. A Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll found that 65% of Americans disapprove of Biden’s economic policies. This likely...

Politics

The constant citing of economic numbers and the other purported achievements of Bidenomics come off as tone-deaf to many average Americans, who are hard-pressed...

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