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UK Announces $304 Aid Package for Ukraine: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a new $304 million (£250 million) aid package for Ukraine during...
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American-flagged vessels account for less than 0.3 percent of the shipping carrying U.S. trade, and the country graduates several hundred naval architects a year...
Both sides would use a Ukraine war pause to rearm, and a longer pause may mean a bloodier spring. Michael Rubin argues Kyiv should...
Tirpitz's "risk theory" was not a plan to defeat Britain but to make defeating Germany so costly that Britain would seek accommodation. It required...
An Iowa-class battleship carried about 3,000 officers and sailors in the Second World War and still needed nearly 1,600 after 1980s modernization — a...
The Trump administration’s deal to allow Russian diesel into the United States blindsided Kyiv and Europe alike — halting peace talks, triggering threats to...
Sabotage at Leipzig, Swindon, and Skarżysko-Kamienna. A curfew across the river from Narva. New garrisons at Petrozavodsk, Lupche-Savino, and Pechenga pointing at Finland's 830-mile...
The Witkoff-Kushner shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv ended, predictably, without a breakthrough — and Andrew Michta argues the failure reveals something deeper than bad...
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...
Summary and Key Points: In the summer of 1984, SR-71 Blackbird 61-7974 suffered a double engine unstart at 83,000 feet off Murmansk while Soviet...
Summary and Key Points: US Air Force F-22 Raptors have deployed to Tsuiki Air Base in Japan for Keen Sword 27, the US-Japan exercise...
Summary and Key Points: Air Force test pilot Lt. Col. Skip Anderson named the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk himself when no one in his chain...
The F-16 Fighting Falcon, chosen over Northrop’s YF-17 in January 1975, pulls 9 Gs, reaches Mach 2 and has flown for 50 years, and...
Four ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz Thursday against a 10-day average of 16. Iran said it hit tanker Trend on Friday. Brent is...
Jobs dropped out of Reed College and stayed on as what he called a "drop-in," sitting in on classes that interested him. One was...
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has,...
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...
For four and a half years the request was essentially a check, and the argument was that a properly supplied David could match Goliath....
Let Trump be Trump—which he will be anyway. Even if his peace efforts fail (which is entirely possible), American interests will be protected, and...
Dr. Robert Kelly argues that Donald Trump’s second term is alienating allies as no president has since 1945: refusing Saudi Arabia’s request to strike...
Signing the largest Russia sanctions package to date and then floating a diesel arrangement looks contradictory only if one assumes the two acts are...
President Trump says he gets along with Kim Jong Un and wants a new summit before the end of 2026, along with smaller US-South...
Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...
American doctrine promises that any North Korean nuclear attack will end the Kim regime. The Iran war has just tested that assumption. The United...
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...
UK Announces $304 Aid Package for Ukraine: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a new $304 million (£250 million) aid package for Ukraine during...
Ukrainians Use Captured Russian Tank to Capture More Russian Tanks: Video footage shared on social media shows Ukrainian forces continuing to capture and redeploy...
The Russian forces are taking a heavy beating in Ukraine, with more than 100,000 casualties in less than tenth months of war. Even Russian...
On the 299th day of the war in Ukraine, the Russian forces are trying every trick in the book to stem the tides of...
The January 6 Select Committee on Monday held its final meeting and also issued a documentary described as the “Introductory Material to the Final...
