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Key Points and Summary – Ottawa is reviewing its $19B CAD F-35 purchase amid trade tensions and supply concerns, prompting speculation about swapping remaining...
Key Points and Summary – As Russia escalates its drone war on Ukraine, deploying massive swarms of increasingly sophisticated Shahed-type drones, Kyiv is fighting...
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...
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...
New Photos Give Sneak Peek Of B-21 Raider’s Exhaust Design: A newly published photograph of the second B-21 Raider, snapped shortly after takeoff, has...
PUBLISHED on August 8, 2025, 02:19 PM EDT – Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Navy is facing a critical readiness crisis, with...
The Komsomolets is a classic example of a "system accident," where the catastrophe was not caused by a single failure but by the unforeseen...
The Akula-Class Submarine: Everything You Always Wanted to Know In the clandestine, high-stakes undersea chess match of the Cold War, the sudden appearance of...
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...
Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—collectively known as the Union—took power after securing the largest block...
Europe’s increasingly stodgy and intolerant political establishment continues to celebrate an unexpected electoral triumph in Romania. It was a badly needed victory for the...
With nukes off the table, Putin has invested in the rapid production of drones to carry out mass conventional attacks.
As Sir Niall Ferguson has written, it is far too easy to ridicule President Trump and his Administration’s statements and policies on Russia’s aggression...
Iran is facing crunch time on its continued talks with the United States over a potential new deal regarding its nuclear program. Iran’s Foreign...
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...
Two Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers made a long-haul flight from the American Midwest this month to aid in efforts to secure efforts to bring...
This past weekend, the U.S. Navy christened its newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers (DDGs), the future USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG-123). The warship is...
The Rockwell B-1B Lancer bomber has been flying high since the 1980s and the United States Air Force has recently conducted tests to determine...
Early in the Biden administration, there may have been a significant change in the assessment of the scope of the Chinese nuclear threat. In April...
The fifth Astute-class attack submarine was launched this week at the BAE Systems site in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, the company announced earlier this month. The...