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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 US Navy has said for months that it will select a final prime contractor for the sixth-generation, carrier-capable F/A-XX by the end of...
In 1986 the Air Force planned to buy 750 F-22s. It built 187. Only 184 remain in the inventory today, and one currently flying...
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 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...
China's first carrier, the Liaoning, was a refitted Soviet hull with a ski jump and no catapults when it entered service in 2012. Fourteen...
Having used the M16A1, M16A2, and the M4 Carbine, I can say that Colt's family of weapons is excellent. The M16 for sure improved.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle told reporters on 22 August that the Navy had completed its work on the F/A-XX and that...
The vote was 424 hands in a half-empty hall on the assembly's last day, and the definition's third clause — cleared the neighborhood —...
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...
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...
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...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
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...
We are becoming used to the most terrifying country in the world possessing nuclear missiles which can strike most of the planet. This is...
At a confirmation hearing earlier this month, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown spoke of plans to retire 119 F-15E Strike Eagles...
This week, the open-source intelligence group Ukraine Weapons Tracker published footage depicting the destruction of a Russian 9A331M TLAR of the 9K332 Tor-M2 air...
If you ask Conservatives and Liberals about Hunter Biden or his father President Joe Biden you will get two different narratives. Each side selectively...
After the Supreme Court voted down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program in June, the president promised to continue fighting to provide relief to...
