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Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Ukraine’s armed forces have so far blended their Soviet-military tradition with an influx of Western methods and technologies. Time will tell whether that ongoing...

Politics

There may be additional long-term fallout from the Trump prosecution. While most legal claims against the Clinton and Biden families are regarded as specious...

Politics

Can Donald Trump Keep Indictment Outrage Going Into 2024? – Former President Donald Trump has the potential to turn the New York indictment, something...

Politics

Trump has never won the popular vote. He squeaked into the presidency via the Electoral College in 2016. He also has poor coattails. Trumpian...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

As a rule military folk do the bidding of political grandees out of duty and honor, agree or not. But military history implies that...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

The framework seems sound; now let’s see what substance the Pentagon and Biden administration hang on it. Last month the Joint Chiefs of Staff...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

This week I returned to the mothership for the first time in a dozen years, to take part in a conference at Vanderbilt University...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

Of late there’s been a lively discussion in the halls of U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I. (where I serve as the  J....

Smart Bombs

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

The U.S. military’s X-37B made history last year when it touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after spending 908 days in orbit.

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

The clip ends suddenly as the kamikaze drone detonated – essentially ensuring that the Russian main battle tank (MBT) won't be returned to service.

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Despite more than 13 months of war, the Russian military hasn’t not only gotten stuck in Ukraine but has lost an unimaginable number of troops in...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

While the F-22 was selected by the U.S. Air Force, future aviation analysts may question the decision. There will forever be speculation on which...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

A big part of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appeal to the Republican electorate in a presidential nominating contest is that he’s willing to go...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Yesterday’s decision by the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates by 25 basis points rather than by 50 basis points was the right decision under the...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

“Mr. Biden essentially embraced the progressive’s modern monetary theory, which admittedly became universal amid the pandemic, positing that the U.S. government could print and...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

America is Going to Default This Summer – Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wants to have a confab with President Joe Biden...

The Embassy

The Embassy

To counter China and Russia’s interests on the continent, the best way forward would be to guarantee free and fair elections in Liberia. Only...

The Embassy

The United States needs to get its domestic house in order; it cannot sweep the issues peaking in the Trump trial under the rug....

The Embassy

The Russian forces continue to bleed on the fields and cities of Ukraine. Bakhmut, in particular, has proven to be the graveyard of the Russian Wagner...

The Embassy

To be clear: we’re talking about unilateral military strikes and troop deployments against Mexico, a sovereign state and formal partner of the United States...

Coronavirus

Coronavirus Chaos

China’s dramatic shift from draconian restrictions to relaxed COVID-19 rules is likely to cause more economic disruptions than benefits. The poorly performing economy will...

Coronavirus Chaos

This was the year the word “tripledemic” entered the lexicon. That’s the term for the three different types of illnesses, COVID-19, flu, and RSV,...

Coronavirus Chaos

Perhaps as many as 90% of China’s 1.41 billion people will come down with COVID-19, said Feng Zijian, former deputy chief of China’s Center...

Coronavirus Chaos

A new virus has emerged in China and infected around 35 people, sparking concern that a new pandemic could be on the way. Scientists...

Politics News

Politics

Kamala Harris is the vice president of the United States. She’s got a hell of a platform to operate from (as the ongoing Africa...

Politics

Hunter Biden allegedly funneled secret FBI information to his business partners who had close ties with Chinese military intelligence, the Daily Mail reports.  It...

Politics

In the preceding weeks, Ron DeSantis has witnessed his national poll numbers begin collapsing as Trump has consumed more media attention and played up...

Politics

The investigation into Hunter Biden could yield more legal paydirt. If the mainstream media started covering it as much as the conservative press is,...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

In recent days it has been reported in the Chosun Ilbo (one of South Korea’s most widely read daily newspapers) that if North Korea...

Hermit Kingdom

North Korea’s Kim Yo-jong is at it again, making extreme threats. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Indo-Pacific commander, Adm. John Aquilino, reportedly said that...

Hermit Kingdom

On Thursday morning, North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the Yellow Sea just days after Kim Yo Jong, sister of leader Kim...

Hermit Kingdom

On March 6, Seoul announced a new plan for resolving the lingering dispute with Japan over compensation for South Koreans forced to labor for...