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Has it all been for naught? Have the financial sanctions that the United States and the West have levied upon Russia had any noticeable...
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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...
On August 14, 2025, a Ukrainian sniper team killed two Russian soldiers with a single 14.5mm round at 4,000 meters, 2.49 miles, the bullet...
A July 31 GAO report found the Air Force’s $21 billion B-52J upgrade’s two biggest programs, Rolls-Royce F130 engines and an AESA radar, more...
On March 21, 1984, Soviet submarine K-314 surfaced with no lights in the path of the USS Kitty Hawk, 150 miles east of Pohang....
The Royal Navy cannot keep its five Astute-class submarines maintained with only two British shipyards certified for nuclear submarines, yet it plans 12 SSN-AUKUS...
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...
Has it all been for naught? Have the financial sanctions that the United States and the West have levied upon Russia had any noticeable...
Prior to, and of course, during the Second Indo-China War – more commonly known as the Vietnam War – the Republic of Vietnam (South...
West Casts Doubt On Ukraine’s Ability to Retake Crimea: While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly promised to leverage Western military support into a...
Ukraine Says Russia Preparing Fresh Assault On Kyiv: When Russian forces withdrew from Kyiv just weeks into the invasion, it was a huge setback...
Is Putin Headed to the Sick Ward?: Most of the world, aside from his enablers in Iran and North Korea, would prefer that Vladimir...
