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Though Ukraine’s long-anticipated spring offensive was slow in coming, and throughout the summer failed to achieve the success many likely expected – Russia remains...
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev appears to relish embarrassing the State Department. Just weeks after the now-voided ceasefire, Aliyev castigated on live television Andrew Schofer, at the...
While the U.S. has allies that have tanks and fighters it can always depend on; it stands alone against these near-peer adversaries when it...
North Korea has provided support in the civil wars in Ethiopia, Angola, Sri Lanka, and Yemen. Though the number of troops was small, North...
If successful, in short, the B-21 will present U.S. and allied commanders the opportunity to exploit command of the air before winning it.
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks set defense commentators aflutter last month when she announced “Replicator,” an initiative meant to field “small, smart, cheap” uncrewed,...
Endorsed! This month over at the Naval Institute Proceedings, coastguardsman Steve Hulse urges the U.S. Navy to procure a flotilla of Sentinel-class fast response cutters...
The odds still favor Russia, both by Moltkean logic and by virtue of Russia’s massive demographic, economic, and military preponderance over Ukraine. But combatants...
The F-16I Sufa Is One Tough Fighter – The Israel Defense Forces fly the largest contingent of the F-16 outside of the U.S. Air Force,...
Since the onset of Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian officials have requested a litany of advanced weaponry and military equipment from the U.S. and its North...
Reports compiled by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggest that a number of key units of the Russian army...
Ukraine will soon have a number of U.S.-made M1 Abrams main battle tanks (MBT), United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said at the...
China is facing a storm of challenges that could bring down its mighty empire in a decade, according to geopolitical expert Peter Zeihan.
Even though there’s no way the president can set gas prices, presidential candidate Ron DeSantis’ energy plan has been released, including a promise of...
After some alarming new numbers about rising child poverty, some are wishing for the return of a temporary policy from early on in the...
Donald Trump describes the idea of a tariff on essentially all imports to the U.S. as a “ring around the U.S. economy,” but such...
In early February of last year, analysts, planners, and military leadership all thought that should Russia actually decide to invade Ukraine, the conclusion was foregone. Many...
President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came together on Wednesday, expressing a shared commitment to advancing a historic agreement aimed at...
The United States and the G7 are beginning to admit it: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is going to drag on for years. What...
Armenia is flipping. In 1920, 1999, and 2020, Washington was asleep at the switch. It must not make the same mistake four times.
Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, does not believe that federal mask mandates will return even...
There has been just enough distance and peace from COVID-19 restrictions and paranoia to let the horrible memories of those terrible two years fade...
Kirillov didn't just suggest that the United States was responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic but also claimed that the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and...
For much of this year, it looked like the COVID-19 pandemic was finally over. But in recent weeks, there have been signs of a...
President Joe Biden earned the praise of New York City Mayor Eric Adams after the chief executive recently granted temporary protection from deportation –...
The Biden administration apparently wants to transform the United States into a poorly managed economic zone. It’s hard to conclude otherwise amid the latest...
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California is not running for president, which he’s been very clear about, having long ago backed President Biden. But that...
During a campaign reception in Manhattan, President Joe Biden repeated a story almost verbatim, raising fresh concerns about his age and fitness for office.
A vague North Korean-Russia alignment adds a new headache to East Asian security. But without China, it is still underpowered.
The Biden team believes it can shame North Korea into being a responsible actor. But Kim cares not about international prestige but about survival,...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will reportedly travel to Vladivostok this month to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. The pair appears to be...
The North Korean navy has grown even more dangerous over the last few years, creating more problems for the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific region.
The closer the United States and its allies come to fielding a cohesive democratic armada, the better their chances of deterring aggressors and shoring...
Editor’s Note: We recently spoke with Dr. Andrew Erickson, a professor of strategy in the U.S. Naval War College (NWC)’s China Maritime Studies Institute...
Congress has done the right thing in finalizing a nearly $900 billion coronavirus stimulus package. Welcome as that might be, it is another matter...
19FortyFive is about change. We normally think of institutional culture as an impediment to healthful change, and oftentimes it is. Bureaucracies are machines designed...
The global spread of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic sent international fossil fuel futures to record lows by March of this year. The virus also...
