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How did we convince ourselves that naval power didn’t matter? Navies haven’t disappeared, of course, but reasons to believe in the decisive nature of...
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Article Summary: Putin publicly claims openness to a Ukraine ceasefire but continues pressing militarily, imposing surrender-like terms that highlight Russia’s true wartime ambitions. Russia’s...
Now that the United States and Ukraine have agreed on a ceasefire, the ball is, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, supposedly in...
Will Allies Embrace Nuclear Weapons after Trump’s Retreat?: It was a bad month for democracies under siege. First, President Donald Trump and Vice President...
Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has not gone the way anyone expected—for Russia itself, the results have been far worse than it hoped. More...
Secretary Marco Rubio’s announcement following the US-Ukraine negotiations in Saudi Arabia that Ukraine has agreed to accept a 30-day ceasefire and to enter into...
The increasingly fraught endgame to the Russia-Ukraine war reflects a larger ongoing debate in the US policy community about who is ultimately responsible for...
The Munich Security Conference and the days that followed, including the senior level US-Russia meeting in Saudi Arabia, have witnessed massive turbulence in transatlantic...
Since the COVID pandemic, Europe has fallen on hard economic times, and the continent’s absolute and relative economic decline has deepened over the past...
USS Nautilus: The Beginning of Rickover’s Nuclear Navy – Jules Verne’s 1870 novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea was more than prescient in predicting...
Article Summary and Key Points: Iran continues operating aging F-14 “Persian Cats,” initially acquired during the Shah’s reign. Cut off from U.S. parts and...
Russia’s November-Class Submarines, Explained: The Project 627 “Kit,” the Russian word for “whale,” became the first-ever series of nuclear-powered submarines in the Soviet Navy (VMF)....
A Mess No One Wants to Own: Nuclear Decommissioning: One of the most radioactive maritime regions within the former Soviet Union is the Arctic...
Donald Trump’s tariffs, which have been threatened, imposed, and pulled multiple times in the last several weeks, have primarily been directed at the nation’s...
It’s tax time, which has a lot of Americans rushing to get their taxes done to collect what they hope will be a sizable...
In a dramatic turn of events over the past 24 hours, President Donald Trump initially escalated the trade war with Canada by doubling tariffs...
Article Summary: The U.S. economy has shifted rapidly from optimism to recession fears, fueled largely by President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff policies and recent...
When President Donald Trump’s administration recently proposed a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s response was calculated and cagey as one might expect. He...
Is a Ceasefire in the Ukraine War a Good Idea?: Ask the average Ukrainian if they support a ceasefire in the current war that...
Not only did Lebanese celebrate Joseph Aoun’s rise to Lebanon’s presidency, but so too did many Americans, Europeans, and Arabs. Aoun—no relation to the...
Once again, Freedom House awarded Finland, Norway, and Sweden its top rankings in its annual Freedom in the World dataset. Finland received a perfect...
Will an infusion of fresh troops from North Korea significantly impact the war in Ukraine? Not a lot. However, the deployment of more North...
It looks like North Korea is building a nuclear-powered submarine. Two days ago, North Korean state media announced the project, showing Supreme Leader Kim...
To the horror of many South Koreans, Donald Trump has returned to the White House. No one, including perhaps President Trump, knows what he...
South Korea’s political turmoil of martial law, impeachments, and vitriolic attacks among its political parties has entered its third month—and it’s likely that several...
How did we convince ourselves that naval power didn’t matter? Navies haven’t disappeared, of course, but reasons to believe in the decisive nature of...
There is no shortage of dangerous jobs in the US military, and one of the more dangerous is that of an explosive ordnance disposal...
For decades the US special-operations community has had a set of “truths” to guide how it selects and train commandos and how it fights....
Some 53 years ago, in a faraway Special Forces camp in southeast Asia, Sergeant First Class Eugene Ashley Jr achieved immortality during one of...
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The Glasgow climate conference ended today but its legacy lives on less in its impact on climate and more in the virtue-signaling that follows....
