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If Taiwanese drones are still finding targets over a beachhead in week three, Chinese units moving supplies inland, widening a lodgment, or reopening a...
The Army has put more than half a billion dollars into expanding General Dynamics' Valleyfield plant near Montreal, which supplies the M31A2 propellant for...
The AIM-424's maximum range far exceeds the detection range of the radars on the fighters carrying it. Shooting at full distance requires external sensors...
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...
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 F-16 was not selected by accident. It is a mature aircraft with a robust industrial base, highly maneuverable thanks to fly-by-wire controls, and...
The creed survives on two tracks: the spoken line preserved by a lieutenant who heard it, and the written Message published that same March....
The 688I Los Angeles-Class boats were built to hunt Soviet submarines and surface ships in a war with the Soviet Navy. That war never...
The record preserves the letter of reprimand, the apologies, the broadcast, and the speech, in that order — and nothing in the documents announces...
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,...
Washington redirected 55 commercial vessels away from Iranian ports as of Sunday, up from 35 a week earlier, while the Kpler intelligence firm counted...
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 impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will reverberate across the international system for years and possibly for decades. (Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel...
Video Reportedly Shows Wagner Mercenaries Criticizing Chief Of Russian General Staff: A video that emerged online in recent days allegedly shows two Russian mercenaries...
The Ukraine War Continues: With the new year approaching, the Russian military is bracing for further Ukrainian counteroffensives in the east and the south. ...
Kalashnikov Group Using Ukraine War to Refine Weapons Like Chukavin Sniper Rifle: Field testing remains an important component in evaluating any new weapon system....
Last week, Japan announced that it will increase defense spending by more than a quarter next year. Among the high-ticket items that will be...
