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Two decades after initiating an imperial policy designed by the Neoconservatives who had captured his administration, George W. Bush’s campaign to transform and democratize...
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Recently, voices in both South Korea and Poland have seriously suggested arming their countries with tactical nuclear weapons as a means of enhancing national...
In a move that defies strategic logic and undermines national security, Prime Minister Mark Carney has ordered a review of Canada’s commitment to purchase...
Where will the soldiers come from? As European leaders pledge to commit tens of thousands of troops to a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, there...
Khamenei May Want Iran to Be Bombed, But He’s Miscalculating: Just a day prior to the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy, Steven Erlanger,...
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...
The United States Army is moving into a new era. The engagements that put the U.S. Army at the center of overseas conflicts for...
Summary and Key Points: China’s new tail-less fighter, likely called the J-36, recently completed its second test flight, fueling speculation it’s a sixth-generation stealth...
Summary and Key Points: The Dassault Rafale fighter, initially slow in export sales, has recently seen a significant resurgence, with multiple countries including Greece,...
Summary and Key Points: China’s massive buildup of ballistic and anti-ship missiles aims specifically to challenge and deny U.S. naval access during a potential...
They used to say that Social Security was the “third rail of politics.” President George W. Bush used that term himself, back when he...
Donald Trump was elected in 2016 while using the popular vote and spent the majority of his first term with a negative approval rating....
The Washington, DC Metro Is Back: Just a few weeks ago, there was a series of stories speculating that the Washington, D.C., housing market...
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...
True to his nature of always trying to demean or diminish his opposite number in any interaction, Russian President Vladimir Putin was roughly an...
Summary and Key Points: The latest release of JFK assassination documents has failed to uncover a “smoking gun” or new proof of conspiracy. -President...
Article Summary and Key Points: Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine isn’t about influence or negotiations—it’s a battle to secure territories formally annexed into Russia’s...
There are a handful of short articles out there now, though most do not go into the level of how the New York Times...
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...
Two decades after initiating an imperial policy designed by the Neoconservatives who had captured his administration, George W. Bush’s campaign to transform and democratize...
After the decommissioning of its final battleship in 1992, the US Navy’s cruisers became the largest and most well-armed warships of the surface fleet....
Ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, over 100,000 Japanese soldiers invaded the Philippines. Within days, Japanese soldiers were landing on beaches in...
Hong Kong has experienced a series of unexpected political developments since 2019. The government proposed a new extradition law that would have allowed Hong...
Last year, in his all-important annual Jackson Hole Speech, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced a major monetary policy shift that now seems to...
