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After a week in which the story flipped from Tehran trouncing Trump to the Iranians being in serious trouble, it is time to look...
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...
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...
Rostec has announced sixteen separate deliveries of Su-35S fighters since 2022, each consisting of two or three aircraft. That puts Russian receipts somewhere between...
In 1979 the supercarrier USS Ranger collided with the Liberian-flagged tanker SS Fortune roughly 30 miles east of Singapore, in one of the busiest...
Nimoy came back only for the promised death — then it leaked, fans bought protest ads, and the ending was rebuilt to the last...
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...
Rezaei's threat goes beyond the strait: no oil leaving the Gulf by any route if neighbors cooperate. In practice that would mean strikes on...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Trump lead narrows on Ron DeSantis? New poll says so: According to a new poll YouGov/Economist poll, Trump leads Ron DeSantis 49 percent to...
Vice President Kamala Harris, like her boss President Joe Biden, has been in the news a lot lately for verbal gaffes, or “word salads.” The...
Charles C.W. Cooke, writing for the reliably right-wing National Review, has issued a rather straight forward rebuke of President Biden’s character. Titled ‘Joe Biden is...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has been urging North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies to extend membership to his country for many months. Since Russia first invaded...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did not leave the NATO summit in Vilnius with a concrete timeline for a potential Ukrainian membership bid, but he...
