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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...
"We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against an enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds."...
The YF-118G Bird of Prey was a stealth jet built at Area 51 from spare parts: King Air landing gear, a Harrier ejection seat,...
A B-2 Spirit carried an LRASM from Whiteman to Guam and, on June 27, 2026, fired it from inside its bomb bay at USS...
SR-71 pilot David Peters took off from Kadena at 10 a.m. Saturday, swept the Korean DMZ and Kamchatka, tanked twice, and sat down at...
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...
The Navy has sold conventional aircraft carriers to breakers for one cent, because the scrapper keeps the recovered metal. Nuclear carriers work the other...
Thousands of full-charge rounds wore the rifling out of the Iowas' 16-inch guns, and the Navy replaced barrels after the war. The spares came...
When France fell in June 1940, Jean Bart was 77 percent complete with only one of her two main turrets installed. She escaped to...
Across 30 years of service, USS Parche accumulated nine Presidential Unit Citations, ten Navy Unit Commendations and 13 Navy Expeditionary Medals — more than...
USS Constellation was decommissioned in August 2003 after 42 years and later sold for scrapping — the fate of most conventionally powered US carriers.
