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How much trouble is the U.S. economy in? There is an old joke about someone having jumped off the Empire State building. When asked...
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US intelligence indicates Moscow now reads the Iran war as having depleted the United States, and sees that as an opening in Europe. CSIS...
The logic of the capital ship is impeccable. The impediments are daunting for the Trump-class. The Congressional Budget Office puts each hull at $18...
When the American military destroyed Saddam Hussein's army in Kuwait, Chinese planners were reportedly stunned by the ferocity and speed of it. For thirty-five...
USS Abraham Lincoln will have logged 295 days on deployment by September 12, the second-longest carrier run since the Cold War, behind USS Gerald...
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...
In 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft during an ultra-rare window of celestial mechanics that humanity would not experience again for roughly 175 years. The...
Set every argument about triggers and safeties aside and one thing settles it: the M9 has no modularity and no integrated rail. There is...
At around 10:05pm on March 21, 1984, a Soviet nuclear attack submarine surfaced almost directly beneath an American supercarrier in the Sea of Japan....
US Navy submarine USS San Francisco was navigating on charts originally surveyed in the 1960s. The region was not a high-value area for the...
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...
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,...
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.
How much trouble is the U.S. economy in? There is an old joke about someone having jumped off the Empire State building. When asked...
Since the moment the caustic images of crazed supporters of former President Donald J. Trump blanketed the airwaves on January 6, 2021, the day...
Ukraine’s stockpile of American High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) has played a major role in the country’s defense efforts against Russian invaders. Over...
Ukraine War Update: Why Russia Bombed Kyiv Last Night – Russian forces conducted the biggest barrage of missile strikes in weeks in the early...
Democrats May Finally Get to Charge Donald Trump With…Something – The New York Times reported on Thursday that prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney’s...
