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The Russian campaign in Ukraine isn’t going well. That is no secret to anyone who has been even vaguely following the 19-month conflict.
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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’s next main battle tank, the Challenger 3, has driven 2,000 kilometers and fired more than 200 rounds in testing, with harder trials due...
Kelly Johnson’s YF-12A took the A-12 Oxcart airframe, added a second crewman, the Hughes AN/ASG-18 pulse-Doppler radar and bays for AIM-47A Falcon missiles, and...
General Dynamics stretched an F-16 by 56 inches, replaced its wing and tail with a cranked-arrow delta of graphite composites 600 pounds lighter, and...
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...
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...
The Russian campaign in Ukraine isn’t going well. That is no secret to anyone who has been even vaguely following the 19-month conflict.
Debates are won or lost based on personal charisma. Vivek Ramaswamy clearly showed that during the presidential debate on Wednesday night. A lot of...
Reliability was the biggest letdown of all on the Glock 41. There were two premature slide locks and three failures to go into battery...
A disturbing characteristic of Jerome Powell’s Federal Reserve is how US-centric it has become. In following its data-dependent interest rate policy, the Fed makes...
It should be no surprise that Donald Trump was the name on everyone’s lips after Wednesday's Republican debate. It seems his Tucker Carlson interview...
