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The Embassy

Aliyev balanced Turkey, Israel, Russia, and the US at once. Ilan Berman on why the Caspian and the Russia-Iran drone pipeline may force Baku...

Aerospace & Defense

Last week’s midterm rout handed Democrats both houses of Congress — and Robert Kelly maps the four foreign policy fights coming in January. Trump’s...

The Embassy

Both parties are reading the midterms as a mandate to walk away from Israel — Democrats making AIPAC a litmus test, JD Vance blaming...

Aerospace & Defense

Churchill called capital ships eggshells smiting one another with hammers, and Jutland, Pearl Harbor, and the Yamato proved him right. The Iowa-class battleships answered...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Putin’s proposal for a U.S.-China-Russia trilateral in China — with Ukraine and Europe excluded — has revived Beltway enthusiasm for a “Kissinger-in-reverse” bid to...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

The Trump administration’s deal to allow Russian diesel into the United States blindsided Kyiv and Europe alike — halting peace talks, triggering threats to...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

The Witkoff-Kushner shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv ended, predictably, without a breakthrough — and Andrew Michta argues the failure reveals something deeper than bad...

Aerospace & Defense

Aerospace & Defense

Summary and Key Points: USS Harry S. Truman, in service since 1998, the Nimitz-class carrier is at the midpoint of a roughly 50-year life,...

Aerospace & Defense

The Soviet Navy’s Sierra I-class submarines were nuclear-powered hunter-killers of about 8,000 tons, built to locate and torpedo NATO submarines. Their secret was a...

Aerospace & Defense

Former SR-71 pilot Brian Shul told the story in Sled Driver: a January mission out of RAF Mildenhall with RSO Walt Watson, bound north...

Aerospace & Defense

April 1984, off Rota, Spain: a U.S. attack submarine was trailing a Soviet Whiskey-class boat, and a young ASW operator in an SH-2F Seasprite...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

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...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

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...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

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 Embassy

The Embassy

Dr. Robert Kelly, a professor of international relations at Pusan National University, argues the separation of powers in American foreign policy has nearly collapsed,...

The Embassy

Both sides would use a Ukraine war pause to rearm, and a longer pause may mean a bloodier spring. Michael Rubin argues Kyiv should...

The Embassy

For four and a half years the request was essentially a check, and the argument was that a properly supplied David could match Goliath....

The Embassy

Let Trump be Trump—which he will be anyway. Even if his peace efforts fail (which is entirely possible), American interests will be protected, and...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

President Trump says he gets along with Kim Jong Un and wants a new summit before the end of 2026, along with smaller US-South...

Hermit Kingdom

Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...

Hermit Kingdom

American doctrine promises that any North Korean nuclear attack will end the Kim regime. The Iran war has just tested that assumption. The United...

Hermit Kingdom

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...