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Another Republican primary debate occurs on Wednesday, and its looming question is whether Florida Governor Ron DeSantis can hang on as the second-place candidate...
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Space Force Matters: Four squadrons carry missions with no acceptable failure rate: the GPS constellation, worldwide ballistic missile warning, every military satellite link, and...
Dr. Michael Rubin turns China’s territorial logic back on Beijing. Mao told Edgar Snow in 1936 that Formosa, like Korea, deserved independence from Japan,...
Signing the largest Russia sanctions package to date and then floating a diesel arrangement looks contradictory only if one assumes the two acts are...
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...
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...
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...
Britain sent 14 Challenger 2s to Ukraine in 2023, watched the 82nd Air Assault Brigade turn them into long-range fire support, lost at least...
Satellite imagery of the Dalian shipyard shows the Type 004 aircraft carrier taking shape: a hull that could reach 1,112 feet.
USS Boston (CA-69) and USS Canberra (CA-70) were Baltimore-class heavy cruisers, 673 feet and 17,000 tons with nine 8-inch guns, when the war ended....
Lockheed once sketched a carrier-based Blackbird. The A-12CB would have left an aircraft carrier deck with Rocketdyne boosters borrowed from the F-104G zero-length-launch program,...
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...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls Ukraine a “dangerous stalemate,” and the Kremlin agrees. Russia netted 104 square kilometers from January to late May,...
Iran is reinforcing its borders and nuclear sites, piling dirt mounds around Natanz and Pickaxe Mountain, and urging civilians to take free weapons training...
Nine months after Riyadh gutted Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council, the Houthis took the port of Mokha on the Bab el-Mandeb, then struck King Khalid...
The rial has hit 2.5 million to the dollar, inflation is projected near 69 percent, and Iranian oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz...
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...
Another Republican primary debate occurs on Wednesday, and its looming question is whether Florida Governor Ron DeSantis can hang on as the second-place candidate...
Political races could be fairly described as popularity contests, but presidential races have changed. Increasingly they are about voting for the lesser of two...
Many a successful full-sized semiautomatic pistol has in turn spawned a compact and/or subcompact edition. The Glock 17 begat the compact G19 and “baby...
The friction within the Republican party continued as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy faced pressure from Freedom Caucus members over 11 spending bills last week.
Remarks presented by our own Dr. James Holmes at Global Security Forum ’23, World Affairs Council of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, September 22, 2023. The...
