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Aerospace & Defense

F/A-XX Update: The CNO, the Defense Secretary and the Acting Navy Secretary all said August. September has arrived with no announcement, and the decision...

The Embassy

American forces struck Iranian positions preparing to fire mine-carrying missiles into the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran answered with a handful of missiles that reportedly...

Aerospace & Defense

US intelligence indicates Moscow now reads the Iran war as having depleted the United States, and sees that as an opening in Europe. CSIS...

Aerospace & Defense

The logic of the capital ship is impeccable. The impediments are daunting for the Trump-class. The Congressional Budget Office puts each hull at $18...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

German Foreign Minister Wadephul's fourth Kyiv visit — two days before Ukraine's Independence Day — capped an accelerating shift: Berlin is becoming Ukraine's principal...

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...

Aerospace & Defense

Aerospace & Defense

Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta was founded in Gardone Val Trompia in 1526, which makes 2026 its 500th year in business. It sold arquebus barrels...

Aerospace & Defense

Adopted January 9, 1936 and retired in 1958, the M1 Garand armed American infantry through World War II and Korea. Over 5,500,000 were built...

Aerospace & Defense

Withdrawn in the late nineties after a short career, the Kirov-class ship waited years for a contract, then years more for funding. The hull...

Aerospace & Defense

The INS Drakon was handed to the Israeli Navy in July 2026, described by its German builder as the last of the Dolphin AIP...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

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...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Rezaei's threat goes beyond the strait: no oil leaving the Gulf by any route if neighbors cooperate. In practice that would mean strikes on...

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,...

The Embassy

The Embassy

Analysts dismissed American control of the Strait of Hormuz as a near-impossible task. The US government now says it has been helping tankers move...

The Embassy

Drones reached Moscow on three of the last five nights. A ballistic missile would not extend Ukraine's reach so much as compress Russia's warning...

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

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

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

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...

Hermit Kingdom

As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...

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.

The Embassy

Hamas’ brutal October attack on Israel has shined an uncomfortable spotlight on Qatar, a Persian Gulf state rich in oil and gas. Qatar hosts...

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