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The AIM-424's maximum range far exceeds the detection range of the radars on the fighters carrying it. Shooting at full distance requires external sensors...
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...
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 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...
During the fire, the Sixth Fleet issued what’s known as a “Broken Arrow” alert after the collision because many feared that those W45 nuclear...
The US Air Force F-22 Raptor isn’t just about stealth and speed. It’s about sensors and weapons. And that’s why the F-22 Raptor will...
In 2012, the 195th and final F-22 was delivered before the production lines were completely shut down. Since then, the aircraft has received several...
The New Boeing F-47 NGAD stealth fighter might not be built in big numbers buy they will have some help: 'drone swarms' come included.
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.
As China’s finance minister reminded then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulsen at the height of the 2008 Great Recession: America’s debt is a grave national security...
It looks like 2024 could be a rematch between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. Right now, Trump would be defeated.
New revelations about the extensive ties between Hunter Biden and Jake Sullivan, however, opens an entirely new line of inquiry into Sullivan’s role in...
Under a 2019 contract, Warsaw will spend around $414 million (380 million euros) to purchase 18 advanced combat HIMARS launchers and two HIMARS training...
Video footage shared by the Ukrainian 95th Air Assault Brigade last week shows the moment a Russian T-64BV tank was destroyed by Ukrainian forces.
