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Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced on Tuesday that the Admiral Nakhimov nuclear-powered battlecruiser is expected to undergo sea trials by the end of...
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Canada has spent its way off Washington's list of NATO deadbeats, praised by name in Ankara for a two-year, $215 billion surge. The number...
For most of a century the US and Canada have shared the longest undefended border on Earth. For part of that century, both capitals...
What if Canada had aircraft carriers in 2026? It would look impressive, visit useful ports, and let ministers speak. It would also do little...
The U.S. Air Force has quietly outfitted the B-2 Spirit to carry the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile, reportedly up to 16 of them. It is...
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 US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
On July 9, Russia's state defense conglomerate Rostec announced fresh deliveries of Su-30SM2 fighters and Su-34 fighter-bombers, complete with factory-test boilerplate and a glowing...
In 1916, an agricultural works in Lincoln built the first tanks in history and sent them to the Somme. In 2002, Britain delivered the...
In March 2026, France named its next carrier the France Libre and began building the most ambitious warship in European history, an 80,000-ton nuclear...
For years, Saab was Europe's outlier, the one major builder openly questioning whether the answer to the sixth-generation fighter was even a crewed jet,...
A single Ukrainian drone forced Russia's largest refinery, in Omsk, to halt operations, knocking out units that make roughly 75 percent of its output...
Iran is moving to charge ships for passing through the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway that carries a fifth of the world's oil...
A film celebrating ten years of China's Y-20 transport slipped in something no other country has shown on official camera: a sixth-generation fighter refueling...
A decade after it surfaced, China's H-20 has no flying prototype and no production line. The reasons are industrial, not financial: an intercontinental flying...
National security expert James Jay Carafano argues that although the fighting grinds on, the war in Ukraine is strategically over — and Putin has...
President Trump arrived at the NATO summit in Ankara and threatened to withdraw substantial U.S. forces from Europe unless Denmark softens its grip on...
Cheap drones can make a Chinese assault on Taiwan bloodier and a quick victory less likely — but they don't repeal geography or remove...
The expectation that cutting U.S. aid would force Ukraine to fold is dead: Russia cannot win this war without a mass mobilization or nuclear...
Last year North Korea's newest destroyer rolled over at its own launch, and the world assumed the program was finished for years. Instead Pyongyang...
The KN-23, North Korea's version the Russian Iskander missile, showed up to fight in the Ukraine war. And it isn't the same platform as...
On May 21, 2025, a brand-new North Korean destroyer rolled over and partially capsized at its own launch ceremony — with Kim Jong Un...
Fake Russian IDs, Orders Never to Be Captured, and 50% Casualties: Inside North Korea’s Secret War in Ukraine The Russian Army has sustained nearly...
Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced on Tuesday that the Admiral Nakhimov nuclear-powered battlecruiser is expected to undergo sea trials by the end of...
Nikki Haley seems to have gone MIA recently, leaving the press with nothing to do but criticize her for not removing the confederate flag...
Ukraine did not immediately respond to the accusations, though both Kyiv and Moscow have repeatedly denied deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure.
The Hunter Biden story is a case of “classic corruption,” George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley wrote in The New York Post.
In the wake of the Bud Light/Dylan Mulvaney controversy, one would think that the major corporations of America were reconsidering their willingness to engage...
