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Forrestal, Saratoga, Ranger, Kitty Hawk and John F. Kennedy each went to shipbreakers for one cent. Dismantling USS Enterprise, the first nuclear carrier, will...
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Tehran's strategy was to wait out the midterms. Instead the US kept the war going past Memorial Day, cleared the strait, tightened the maritime...
A ground war in Iran would be a mistake, argues Dr. Robert Kelly. Holding a country the size of Alaska with 90 million people...
Tim Conners, NASA's former lead propulsion engineer for the Blackbird, says the J58 engines are unserviceable after 27 years, the fuel is no longer...
The nuclear aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford returned to Norfolk after 326 days, the longest US carrier deployment since Vietnam, beating USS Abraham...
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...
China mounted a railgun on the landing ship Haiyangshan in 2018 and never took it off. Its researchers claim Mach 6, 100 to 200...
America's biggest battleship never built: 71,000 tons, 921 feet, twelve 16-inch guns, a 16.1-inch belt, and a 121-foot beam too wide for the Panama...
The first F-15J rolled out in St. Louis on June 4, 1980, with its nuclear wiring removed and American jammers withheld. Mitsubishi built the...
A clean F-22 Raptor has a combat range of about 590 nautical miles, less than the Su-57's 670 or the J-20's 1,100, and it...
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...
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...
Twenty-five years on, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the US mistook quiet for peace. A RAND strategist argues it is doing...
The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies have all warned of an escalating Russian gray...
Surely there is reluctance among a part of the Russian population – especially those living in major cities – to see their sons dragged...
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...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
Forrestal, Saratoga, Ranger, Kitty Hawk and John F. Kennedy each went to shipbreakers for one cent. Dismantling USS Enterprise, the first nuclear carrier, will...
RIMPAC 2026 sank ex-USS Mobile Bay and ex-USS Peleliu after attacks from crewed aircraft, submarines, Army helicopters, land-based launchers and Navy uncrewed surface craft....
QUICKSINK takes an ordinary air-delivered precision bomb and adapts it to sink ships, at far lower cost than a purpose-built anti-ship cruise missile. A...
The US Navy planned at least 20 Constellation-class frigates to restore a blue-water escort it had not had since 2015. In November 2025 it...
Britain has stored retired nuclear submarines since 1983. Its first dismantling is due in 2026, but costs and delivery risks keep rising.
