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Tehran's strategy was to wait out the midterms. Instead the US kept the war going past Memorial Day, cleared the strait, tightened the maritime...
A ground war in Iran would be a mistake, argues Dr. Robert Kelly. Holding a country the size of Alaska with 90 million people...
Tim Conners, NASA's former lead propulsion engineer for the Blackbird, says the J58 engines are unserviceable after 27 years, the fuel is no longer...
The nuclear aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford returned to Norfolk after 326 days, the longest US carrier deployment since Vietnam, beating USS Abraham...
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...
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...
Three 1980s upgrades gave each 57,500-ton Iowa-class battleship four Phalanx guns at 4,500 rounds a minute, 16 Harpoons reaching 150 nautical miles, and 32...
America built 187 F-22 Raptors and shut the line in 2011. Satellite imagery suggests Chengdu alone builds 100 to 120 J-20s a year, matching...
Australia’s noisy, troubled Collins-class earned its reputation when HMAS Waller evaded US, Japanese, Canadian, Chilean, Korean, and British forces and photographed aircraft carrier USS...
To survive 1,000-degree leading edges at Mach 3.2, the SR-71 Blackbird had to be about 90 percent titanium, and the world’s dominant supplier was...
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...
The rial has hit 2.5 million to the dollar, inflation is projected near 69 percent, and Iranian oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz...
Twenty-five years on, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the US mistook quiet for peace. A RAND strategist argues it is doing...
The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies have all warned of an escalating Russian gray...
Surely there is reluctance among a part of the Russian population – especially those living in major cities – to see their sons dragged...
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...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
The internet version says 24 missiles and 192 warheads. The verified version is smaller — and still beyond most nations' entire arsenals. Walk through...
Berlin is positioning to become Kyiv's chief postwar patron. Andrew Michta on the German-Polish competition for Ukraine — and why the strained Warsaw-Kyiv partnership...
Every source gives a different missile count for the Eagle II: 12, 22, 23, even 28. The audit sorts it out. Twelve air-to-air missiles...
They rehearsed the helicopter catch eleven times without a miss. Then four switches, installed upside down to a drawing nobody questioned, sent three years...
Venus melts lead, crushes machines under ninety atmospheres, and rains sulfuric acid, which is why Soviet engineers built the Venera landers like submarines and...
