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Does Russia Have a Force Generation Problem in Ukraine? Russia’s February 24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine was initially spearheaded by some of Russia’s most professional...
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An air ceasefire would take Russian missiles out of Ukrainian skies, and after another summer of ballistic missiles and mass drone attacks, even a...
In a new analysis, national security expert James Jay Carafano argues President Trump has already achieved America's key objectives against Iran and is de-risking...
North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives...
Ukraine says it struck thirteen more vessels from Russia's sanctions-dodging shadow fleet across the Azov and Black Seas in forty-eight hours, part of a...
For all the talk of spending targets, the Ankara NATO summit's real work happened elsewhere. Europe is being handed responsibility for NATO's conventional defense...
Western analysts fixate on North Korea's missiles. The real danger is speed — a mass artillery-and-missile salvo in the war's first hours, backed by...
The second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
Before Yamato had even entered service, Japan was studying its successor. Design A-150, later nicknamed the Super Yamato, was to carry six 51-centimeter guns,...
The most expensive warship ever built came home with a repair list. USS Gerald R. Ford has arrived at Norfolk Naval Shipyard after a...
The B-21 Raider carries more automation than any bomber before it, and the Air Force has now confirmed it will still fly with two...
USS Carl Vinson entered service in 1982 and has since fought over Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen, while also delivering aid after Haiti’s earthquake....
No vessel entered any of the three Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on Wednesday, the first such day since the grain corridor opened...
Oil futures are signaling that traders expect prices to fall over the coming months, despite the war and the disruption around Hormuz. The bet...
Ukraine's long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries have spread the fuel crisis into the countryside just as harvest begins, one analyst argues, with farmers...
Two tankers loaded with Saudi crude reversed course in the Red Sea — without being fired on — after the Houthis threatened any ship...
Zelensky met Raytheon executives in Kyiv, saying Ukraine is moving to co-produce Patriot missiles under plans he discussed with Trump — though waiting lists...
The Pentagon's official count of American troops killed in the Iran conflict dropped from eighteen to fourteen between Wednesday and Thursday, the New York...
Trump is underwater in all fifteen polls in the RealClearPolling average, and one election analyst traces the slide to Iran. A Washington Post survey...
American forces struck Iran for an eleventh straight night as the Houthis pressed their blockade threat against Saudi shipping. Only three commodity vessels crossed...
Xi's first Pyongyang visit in seven years, a ratified Russia pact, and a declaration that the arsenal is permanent: Andrew Latham on why the...
Last year North Korea's newest destroyer rolled over at its own launch, and the world assumed the program was finished for years. Instead Pyongyang...
The KN-23, North Korea's version the Russian Iskander missile, showed up to fight in the Ukraine war. And it isn't the same platform as...
On May 21, 2025, a brand-new North Korean destroyer rolled over and partially capsized at its own launch ceremony — with Kim Jong Un...
Does Russia Have a Force Generation Problem in Ukraine? Russia’s February 24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine was initially spearheaded by some of Russia’s most professional...
South Korea Rebuffs Chinese Attempts to Limit its Missile Defenses: To hear the Chinese tell it, Seoul has agreed to constrain its national security...
What if Ukraine launches its own offensive against Putin and it fails?
Another day, another big boast by Russia's military.
President Biden’s announcement that he was taking executive action to forgive portions of student loan debt has raised novel legal questions. For months, as the student...
