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Ukrainian pilots probably won’t fly American-made F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets until 2024 at the earliest.
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Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Wallace "Chip" Gregson warns that the U.S. Navy is clinging to steam catapult doctrine while the problem set has moved....
The US Army's Mobile Tactical Cannon program has selected the Hanwha K9MH, which mounts the unmanned turret of the latest K9A2 tracked howitzer onto...
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...
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 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...
The closest the F-15SE Silent Eagle ever came to an actual order was South Korea's F-X Phase III competition, a roughly $7.3 billion program...
The only jet ever built to hunt submarines from a carrier deck never dropped a weapon on one. It fought in Iraq instead, passed...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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,...
When it comes to severe economic pressure, Washington has massive options between everything and nothing. Something in the middle that hurts Iran a lot...
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...
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...
Ukrainian pilots probably won’t fly American-made F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets until 2024 at the earliest.
New Hampshire will not be among the states removing former President Donald Trump from the ballot citing the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause.
The phrase “hellfire and brimstone” means different things to different people, depending on the context. In a religious context, it refers to the threat...
My favorite C.S. Lewis quote goes thusly: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most...
It’s unclear which of Donald Trump’s criminal cases will go to trial first, but it won’t be next month.
