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Can we turn Ukraine into Austria? Or perhaps Finland? Along with a host of others, former Greek Minister of Finance Yannis Varoufakis has argued...
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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.
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 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...
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...
One RIM-7 Sea Sparrow from aircraft carrier USS Saratoga struck the Turkish destroyer's bridge area, killing five sailors including her commanding officer, Captain Kudret...
Avro Canada VZ-9 is a real-life flying saucer you can see right now at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton,...
The F-35 review Mark Carney launched after a tariff row was supposed to finish last autumn and is still running. Meanwhile the budget has...
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,...
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...
Since Khamenei took over in March, Iran's Supreme National Security Council has had three secretaries. Ali Larijani was killed in an airstrike a few...
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...
Can we turn Ukraine into Austria? Or perhaps Finland? Along with a host of others, former Greek Minister of Finance Yannis Varoufakis has argued...
The U.S. Justice Department has charged Charles Littlejohn, an IRS contractor, with stealing former President Donald Trump’s tax returns and leaking them to the...
Back in 1990, when the FBI adopted the Smith & Wesson Model 1076 10mm pistol as the first ever standard-issue semiautomatic pistol for its...
Donald Trump emerged from the second Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library as the clear winner even though he opted not to...
This time, an Economist/YouGov poll shows Joe Biden up by five points over Donald Trump among registered voters in a hypothetical matchup.
