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On October 20, the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Rocket Cargo program flew experimental cargo pods on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, riding...
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Dr. Robert Kelly, a professor of international relations at Pusan National University, argues the separation of powers in American foreign policy has nearly collapsed,...
Dr. Robert Farley argues a renewed US-Israeli air campaign against Iran awaits only the midterm elections, citing a New York Times report of personnel...
American-flagged vessels account for less than 0.3 percent of the shipping carrying U.S. trade, and the country graduates several hundred naval architects a year...
Both sides would use a Ukraine war pause to rearm, and a longer pause may mean a bloodier spring. Michael Rubin argues Kyiv should...
Putin’s proposal for a U.S.-China-Russia trilateral in China — with Ukraine and Europe excluded — has revived Beltway enthusiasm for a “Kissinger-in-reverse” bid to...
The Trump administration’s deal to allow Russian diesel into the United States blindsided Kyiv and Europe alike — halting peace talks, triggering threats to...
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...
“Our Navy is the surest guarantee of peace and the cheapest insurance against war,” Theodore Roosevelt reportedly told a University of Virginia audience in...
Japan’s Taigei-class is its most advanced attack submarine: 84 meters long, 3,000 tons, built around lithium-ion batteries that replaced the Sōryū-class’s Stirling air-independent propulsion...
Patrick Stewart left London theater for Star Trek: The Next Generation against Sir Ian McKellen’s advice, which McKellen has now called bad on X,...
After World War II had ended, the Essex-class carriers were upgraded to carry larger, heavier jet aircraft. These modifications included jet-blast deflectors (JBDs), greater...
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...
For four and a half years the request was essentially a check, and the argument was that a properly supplied David could match Goliath....
Let Trump be Trump—which he will be anyway. Even if his peace efforts fail (which is entirely possible), American interests will be protected, and...
Dr. Robert Kelly argues that Donald Trump’s second term is alienating allies as no president has since 1945: refusing Saudi Arabia’s request to strike...
Signing the largest Russia sanctions package to date and then floating a diesel arrangement looks contradictory only if one assumes the two acts are...
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...
On October 20, the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Rocket Cargo program flew experimental cargo pods on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, riding...
On January 26, 1966, Lockheed test pilot Bill Weaver was flying SR-71 Blackbird 61-7952 at Mach 3.18 and 78,800 feet when an engine unstart...
Eight months into the Iran War, with sailors aboard USS Abraham Lincoln running low on some food, the Pentagon has doubled hostile fire pay...
“When in doubt, attack.” The line has been handed to chess players and to Marc Antony on HBO, but it belongs, by reputation if...
The SR-71 Blackbird’s two Pratt & Whitney J58 engines produced 32,500 pounds of thrust each and pushed the jet to Mach 3.2, but no...
