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Could the Ukrainian counteroffensive end the war? It depends. If the Ukrainian military manages to inflict heavy blows on the Russian forces and threaten...
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Both sides would use a Ukraine war pause to rearm, and a longer pause may mean a bloodier spring. Michael Rubin argues Kyiv should...
Tirpitz's "risk theory" was not a plan to defeat Britain but to make defeating Germany so costly that Britain would seek accommodation. It required...
An Iowa-class battleship carried about 3,000 officers and sailors in the Second World War and still needed nearly 1,600 after 1980s modernization — a...
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 Trump administration’s deal to allow Russian diesel into the United States blindsided Kyiv and Europe alike — halting peace talks, triggering threats to...
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...
Destroyers are specialists, frigates are generalists, and the US Navy currently has none of the latter. Sean Spoonts, a Navy veteran, traces how that...
The F-35 Will Soon Have the AIM-260 Missile: For all of the impressive capabilities of the Lockheed Martin “Skunk Works” F-35 Lightning II 5th...
Christian D. Orr revisits why the F-22 Raptor line, closed by Bob Gates in 2009 at 187 of 381 planned jets, will not restart:...
The Navy’s Middle East blockade line has backed hundreds of kilometers away from the Strait of Hormuz and into what looks like Pakistani waters...
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...
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...
Dr. Robert Kelly argues that Donald Trump’s second term is alienating allies as no president has since 1945: refusing Saudi Arabia’s request to strike...
Signing the largest Russia sanctions package to date and then floating a diesel arrangement looks contradictory only if one assumes the two acts are...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls Ukraine a “dangerous stalemate,” and the Kremlin agrees. Russia netted 104 square kilometers from January to late May,...
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...
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...
Could the Ukrainian counteroffensive end the war? It depends. If the Ukrainian military manages to inflict heavy blows on the Russian forces and threaten...
The visitor logs establish a closer personal relationship between the president and Hunter Biden’s business partners than was previously publicly known. Earlier this month...
Iraq’s partners should maintain diplomatic and financial pressure upon the Sudani administration to unwind that grasp, but there are no shortcuts to power. Kadhimi’s...
Leopard 2 tanks are considered some of the best modern main battle tanks in Europe. In the wake of the announcement, Ukraine’s ambassador to...
The U.S. Army has also selected Raytheon Technologies to advance its design for the Long Range Maneuverable Fires program, intended to become PrSM Increment...
