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Why the UK Just Promised Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine – Speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on February 18, British Prime Minister...
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F/A-XX Update: The CNO, the Defense Secretary and the Acting Navy Secretary all said August. September has arrived with no announcement, and the decision...
American forces struck Iranian positions preparing to fire mine-carrying missiles into the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran answered with a handful of missiles that reportedly...
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...
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...
Withdrawn in the late nineties after a short career, the Kirov-class ship waited years for a contract, then years more for funding. The hull...
The INS Drakon was handed to the Israeli Navy in July 2026, described by its German builder as the last of the Dolphin AIP...
Images circulating since August 15 show China's J-35 stealth fighter with a mirror-like finish. The obvious guesses are a new radar-absorbent coating, a trick...
While the platform is combat-tested, it doesn’t mean the Su-57 Felon is flying regularly in the most dangerous pockets of Ukraine for the Russian...
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.
Why the UK Just Promised Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine – Speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on February 18, British Prime Minister...
The war in Ukraine continues on day 361. Russian forces are still in search of a breakthrough in the Donbas, without any success as...
The U.S. has accused Russia of committing crimes against humanity in Ukraine. In a speech at the Munich Security Conference, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris stated...
Donald Trump hits DeSantis on Social Security and Medicare: In a Truth Social post, the former president hit at his likely rival Ron DeSantis,...
What Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine War has Taught the World Over the Last Year: Without justification, Russia’s Vladimir Putin unleashed the horrors of hell upon...
