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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...
USS Abraham Lincoln will have logged 295 days on deployment by September 12, the second-longest carrier run since the Cold War, behind USS Gerald...
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...
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 kill chain ran through the rear cockpit: the Combat Tree interrogator, the radar lock, the Sparrow geometry — and the Air Force gave...
The F-22's combat radius is typically cited at 450 to 500 nautical miles. Guam sits roughly 1,500 nautical miles from Taiwan - about three...
On this day in 1965, ten men entered SEALAB II off La Jolla — and Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter stayed 30 straight days on...
A carrier commissioned eight days after Japan surrendered launched a German ballistic missile from her flight deck, then flew F/A-18s against Saddam Hussein 44...
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.
Russia Warns Against Supplying Ukraine With Patriot Missiles: Russia’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday threatening consequences if the White House goes ahead...
How long will the United States support Ukraine with money and weapons? The Pentagon is supplying advanced Patriot missile defense systems to Kyiv. That’s a sign...
The expanded child tax credit was simultaneously one of the great successes and great failures of the Biden presidency to date. The expanded credit,...
The House Ethics Committee is investigating New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Last week, the committee released a statement that said a probe into AOC’s...
The U.S.-African Leaders Forum winds down today. From the White House point-of-view, the three-day summit was a success. President Joe Biden and his team...
