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Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

China’s navy is a growing threat because it is constantly being evolved to eventually challenge the advanced navies of the United States, Japan, and the other...

The Embassy

Fears of spiraling escalation seem, at this point, rather overblown. The war is fifteen months old and still limited to eastern Ukraine.

The Embassy

Ending the war based on a neutral Ukraine without express security guarantees from NATO would clearly be an unpleasant outcome for Kyiv’s leaders, but...

The Embassy

At best, trading F-16s and F-16 upgrades to Turkey in exchange for Erdogan lifting his veto on Sweden would be a pyrrhic victory.

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

That it’s springtime in the Black Sea is not enough reason to go on the march. Military reality—not the passing of the seasons—has to...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

Robert Work is the Rick Grimes of U.S. Marine Corps force design, forever blazing away at faulty ideas.

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

In The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power, just out from Yale, Kaplan brings a bleak outlook drawn from Greek tragedy...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

So Carl von Clausewitz, when properly understood, was right about how wars do or do not end. Even after a resounding triumph, it behooves...

Smart Bombs

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Meet the Brewster Buffalo: The Second World War provides such a fascinating study in contrasts. The Earth-shaking conflict is replete with fighter planes that...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Soviet overspending on defense contributed to the USSR’s collapse in 1991. One notable endeavor, emblematic of Soviet intentions to keep pace with America’s military,...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

The battle for the town of Bakhmut might have ended, but the town isn’t out of the news yet.  With the Wanger Group mercenaries...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

As I type these words, the 81st anniversary of the Battle of Midway is tomorrow. Accordingly, this reporter will continue a tradition started last...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Now with any future budget stimulus off the table, the Fed needs to reassess its monetary policy stance - and soon.

Trillions - 19FortyFive

A state-sponsored Chinese hacking group called Volt Typhoon penetrated critical U.S. computer networks throughout the continental U.S. and Guam. The group was reportedly able...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

“No corner of the global economy will be spared,” was what Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics told AP News in a...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

The USA can survive just fine with a three year pause on loan repayments. Repayments should be paused indefinitely, or forgiven outright.

The Embassy

The Embassy

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is looking ahead to another five-year term. Erdogan won 52.15% of the vote this month in Turkey’s presidential elections,...

The Embassy

After an offensive operation that cost more than 100,000 men, Russia once more ceded Ukraine the strategic initiative.

The Embassy

Zelenskyy’s office released a video showing Lindsey Graham describing U.S. aid to Ukraine as the “best money we’ve ever spent.”

The Embassy

Thirty years ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan explained his goals: “Democracy is not our final goal,” he declared, “but rather a means to restore the civilization...

Coronavirus

Coronavirus Chaos

The United States spent a combined $6 trillion of money we didn’t have on responding to the novel coronavirus that leeched out of Wuhan,...

Coronavirus Chaos

Editor’s Note: As with all things COVID-19, we respect our author’s opinions and ideas on this issue – all of their ideas. With that...

Coronavirus Chaos

China’s dramatic shift from draconian restrictions to relaxed COVID-19 rules is likely to cause more economic disruptions than benefits. The poorly performing economy will...

Coronavirus Chaos

This was the year the word “tripledemic” entered the lexicon. That’s the term for the three different types of illnesses, COVID-19, flu, and RSV,...

Politics News

Politics

Despite calls by conservative activists to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy for his debt deal with President Joe Biden, it is highly unlikely that he...

Politics

Most presidencies follow grueling schedules. However, President Joe Biden has seen fit to keep a 30-hour workweek, which has led some to question whether...

Politics

The presence of Hunter Biden operating alongside top officials of the Obama Administration, using those connections to possibly enrich himself (and his whole family),...

Politics

Yes, Donald Trump is on 'Fire' mode to try and win the 2024 election. And he was on display during a recent Fox News...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

The North Korean threat is real. Pyongyang has proven in recent years that the DPRK intends to not only expand but modernize both its...

Hermit Kingdom

North Korea’s missile launches are in the headlines again, and a seventh nuclear test might be on the horizon. For most experts and pundits,...

Hermit Kingdom

Despite Biden’s best efforts with South Korea, the summit declaration merely puts a band-aid on a festering wound in the bilateral alliance. 

Hermit Kingdom

In recent days it has been reported in the Chosun Ilbo (one of South Korea’s most widely read daily newspapers) that if North Korea...