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The late Sir Winston Churchill once suggested, “There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies and that is fighting without them.” This...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Survivability drove the requirement. In an environment where cheap drones hunt armored vehicles constantly, the Army specified active protection systems, modular armour and signature-management...
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.
The late Sir Winston Churchill once suggested, “There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies and that is fighting without them.” This...
The U.S. military has very limited experience in and a very mixed record with providing the Bradley Fighting Vehicle to foreign partners. (Subscribe to...
Can the Impeachment Hammer Fall on Joe Biden? – The founders of the American government never foresaw that impeachment against a sitting president would...
On January 6, 2023, a Turkish Air Force cargo plane landed at Goma’s airport in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Onboard, reportedly, was equipment...
An article in British weekly, The Spectator, has taken the time to dissect one of the (many) burgeoning conspiracy theories in American politics: that...
