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Speaking in Baghdad on August 20, Iran's parliament speaker warned that military power counts for nothing if the people are hungry. Four days later...
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...
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 Type 45 destroyer is one of the most capable air defense warships ever built, and it does not like warm water. The WR-21's...
The Makarov is a traditional double-action (TDA) auto pistol, and just like the Beretta 92F, Walther PPK, and Walter P38, not to mention the...
Six months of American and Israeli air attacks destroyed Iranian radars, command centers and S-300 batteries. They did not destroy the network. The proof...
The Air Force did not retire the SR-71 because something better came along. Nothing better exists. On March 6, 1990, Lieutenant Colonel Ed Yielding...
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 Kremlin’s forces may have been driven back on nearly all fronts in Ukraine, and Kyiv may even be planning to launch an invasion...
Donald Trump Facing Tax Issues Now? Just days before the Republicans will take control of the United States House of Representatives, the Democratic-led House...
Does Kari Lake have a future in Republican politics? – Prior to the 2022 midterm elections, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake was being talked...
Since her initial rise in politics, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has often been in the news for saying outrageous things, many of them...
A 19FortyFive Tradition – We Look at Where World War III Could Start As We Prepare for 2023 – In 2022, the world came closer...
