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Six months into the invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin’s terror campaign against Ukrainian civilians continues unabated. Putin, who has been obsessed with Ukraine...
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Surely there is reluctance among a part of the Russian population – especially those living in major cities – to see their sons dragged...
Almost all of the names are in their late forties to mid-fifties, and that is the point. Putin's own generation — men like FSB...
Dr. James Holmes, the last gunnery officer to fire a battleship's guns in anger, recalls USS Wisconsin's 1988 return from mothballs: parts scavenged from...
Iran and Russia have both demonstrated that a mediocre power can absorb enormous punishment without surrendering, and that doing so buys almost nothing strategically....
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...
The Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative emerged from US Army Europe and Africa and NATO's Allied Land Command as a concept for restoring deterrence by...
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...
France went a different way after the joint program with West Germany collapsed in 1982. The Engin Principal de Combat specification traded armor thickness...
Donald Tusk told the Polish parliament his government has assessments that Russia may strike NATO territory with drones or missiles within months, and Emmanuel...
Most rifle actions need tight-fitting parts to cycle cleanly. The AK-47s bolt carrier rattles around inside the receiver with room to spare, and that...
Boeing and Israel rebuilt the F-4 Phantom for more thrust and range. $12 million a jet. Neither Super Phantom entered production.
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...
Volodymyr Zelenskiy is set to meet with US President Donald Trump and discuss current and possible new initiatives aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
The Duma is a rubber-stamp parliament and United Russia is not going to lose it. The election still matters to Putin, for two reasons...
On the morning of September 14, a Russian drone exploded beside a train carrying delegates home from the Yalta European Strategy summit, about 1.2...
Russia's negotiating position has not shifted across eight visits to Moscow by Steve Witkoff, and Putin's precondition remains the whole of Donetsk oblast —...
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...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
Six months into the invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin’s terror campaign against Ukrainian civilians continues unabated. Putin, who has been obsessed with Ukraine...
Why the F-35 Rules – Thanks to Israel: When Israeli Defense Forces revealed in March that their F-35I Adir fighter jets last year successfully intercepted...
F-22s are headed right on Ukraine’s doorstep: Last week, the United States Air Force deployed six Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptors to Europe. The aircraft arrived at...
China Released Footage of DF-17 Hypersonic Weapon – As the question was pondered over the weekend: will she or won’t she – as in whether...
Soldiers Destroy Land Mines Using Sticks, Tires, and Tanks – Video footage shared on various Telegram accounts recently shows soldiers, and possibly even civilians,...
