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Why We Should Take North Korea’s Latest Threat Seriously: In October 2021, standing beside his new, untested Hwasong-17 intercontinental-range ballistic missile at a defense...
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Key Points and Summary – President Trump’s surprise declaration that Venezuelan airspace is “closed” sparked fears of imminent U.S. intervention—and raised deeper questions about...
Key Points and Summary – Donald Trump’s anniversary proclamation for the Monroe Doctrine adds a “Trump Corollary,” vowing that only Americans will shape their...
Key Points and Summary – Japan is cautiously opening a debate that would have been unthinkable a decade ago: swapping ultra-quiet diesel boats for...
Key Points and Summary – Canada’s plan to replace its aging CF-18 fleet turned into a political and industrial drama that ultimately doomed Boeing’s...
Key Points and Summary – The recent NATO summit in The Hague, where European allies agreed to a new 5% of GDP defense spending...
The Trump administration made the Russia-Ukraine ceasefire its priority foreign policy initiative shortly after the inauguration. Setting aside Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric that he...
The strain in US-European relations under the second Trump administration stems primarily from a deepening ideological divide, not just policy disputes over trade or...
Since the ill-fated Oval Office meeting between Presidents Trump and Zelensky, the headlines have been dominated by pronouncements about the end of NATO, the...
Key Points and Summary – The F-14 Tomcat entered service as a Mach 2 fleet defender built around the AIM-54 Phoenix, able to kill...
Key Points and Summary – Canada’s fighter debate is flaring again as critics push Ottawa to ditch the F-35 for Sweden’s cheaper Saab JAS...
Key Points and Summary – Europe’s Future Combat Air System is billed as a true sixth-generation ecosystem: a stealth Next Generation Fighter, a powerful...
Key Points and Summary – The Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) and America’s NGAD F-47 are rival sixth-generation projects with very different approaches. -GCAP...
Key Points and Summary – After losing the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance contest to Boeing’s F-47, Lockheed Martin is pushing an aggressive...
The global financial and technological order is changing rapidly, and the U.S. must be at the center of these changes. As China aggressively pushes...
It is in the DNA of Star Wars to borrow from other genres. Indeed, George Lucas built his science fiction universe around the visual...
Key Points – Canada’s re-evaluation of its 88-unit F-35 fighter deal, driven by political tensions with the US, faces significant practical hurdles if Ottawa...
Article Summary: Washington’s proposed 28-point Russia-Ukraine deal—trading Ukrainian territory, NATO aspirations, and war-crimes accountability for a ceasefire and cash—would echo Munich by rewarding aggression,...
Key Points and Summary – Dr. Arkady Moshes argues that Russia’s war in Ukraine has exposed a glaring reality: Moscow has neither a viable...
In October 2024, Iran threatened to abandon the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and pursue a nuclear weapon if attacked by Israel. If history and...
In the wake of Israel’s first rounds of its preemptive military strike on Iran’s nuclear program, aptly named “Operation Rising Lion,” commentators rushed to...
Summary and Key Points: –North Korea‘s deployment of 15,000 troops to support Russia in Ukraine offers critical battlefield experience that could significantly enhance its...
Summary and Key Points: North Korea has faced catastrophic losses among its troops fighting alongside Russia in Ukraine, with nearly 50 percent casualties reported....
North Korea and the Change Question: More than two decades ago, a defense and foreign affairs writer could visit China and not be constantly...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is meeting with important allies during his Indo-Pacific trip, with one notable exception: South Korea, at a time of...
Why We Should Take North Korea’s Latest Threat Seriously: In October 2021, standing beside his new, untested Hwasong-17 intercontinental-range ballistic missile at a defense...
2017 was the year of “fire and fury” in American policy toward North Korea. Pyongyang tested its first ICBM on July 4th, and its...
Give President Joe Biden credit for talking with Vladimir Putin over the latter’s demands for security guarantees. Yet the way forward appears blocked by...
The situation in Ukraine remains tense as the U.S. is rallying NATO allies and friends while warning Moscow that an invasion would bring a...
For a half-century, Iraq has been among the world’s most difficult places to be a journalist. Saddam Hussein tolerated no independent journalism; to be...
