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Putin is the Head of a Russian State on the Brink of Economic Collapse: Leonid Putin, meet Vladimir Brezhnev. Serious Russian economists are increasingly...
Washington has spent the better part of a decade arguing about the Ford class‘s electromagnetic catapults. Beijing spent roughly the same period building a...
China, Fuel, & The Indirect Approach: In his book Strategy, B.H. Liddell Hart wrote that “[t]he object in war is a better state of...
Russia pocketed several billion dollars in the first two weeks after the Strait of Hormuz closed. That figure is worth sitting with — real...
Iran: A War at the Wrong Time and Place: As the war in Iran continues and analysts debate how long it will last and...
Strategic expert Andrew A. Michta explores how Russia is capitalizing on the Iran War to consolidate gains in Europe. With U.S. resources drained and...
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...
This Nimitz-class aircraft carrier might have first sailed in 1977, but she is proving that even old supercarriers can make a big comeback. In...
From 1991 through 1999, NASA flew the SR-71 Blackbird after the aircraft was retired from the U.S. Air Force. The aircraft was flown for...
The Zumwalt-Class was supposed to be the future of the surface fleet. The Navy planned to build 32. It got three. Naval officials get...
Outgoing Navy Secretary John Phelan confirmed during the Sea-Air-Space symposium in Washington on Tuesday, April 21, that the U.S. Navy is conducting a new...
For many years, Elon Musk talked about Mars as if it were the sole reason that SpaceX came into existence. Though one project among...
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and then focus on improving your other innovations.” – Steve...
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me…Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful…that’s what matters to me…”...
Since 2020, Mexico has been building a 300+ kilometer-long land bridge connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic. The goal of the Interoceanic Corridor of...
An internal Pentagon email circulated this week by Elbridge Colby, the U.S. Defense Department’s top policy adviser, examined options for punishing NATO allies that...
As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year of hostilities, the dynamics on the ground and in the air are shifting. Having traveled...
Donald Trump’s Way of War: An American Tradition At first, conventional minds worried that President Donald Trump’s campaign against Iran would draw us into...
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Defense and aerospace industrial firms from the Islamic Republic of Iran that had been scheduled and confirmed to participate in Defense...
Fake Russian IDs, Orders Never to Be Captured, and 50% Casualties: Inside North Korea’s Secret War in Ukraine The Russian Army has sustained nearly...
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Bruce E. Bechtol Jr., a political science professor and proliferation expert, evaluates the strategic partnership between Iran and North...
Summary and Key Points: Reuben F. Johnson, a veteran defense technology analyst and Casimir Pulaski Foundation fellow, scrutinizes the Ninth Congress of the Workers’...
Korea’s Division Isn’t a Glitch Anymore. It’s a Feature of the New Order The division of Korea was always understood to be temporary. In...
Known as the “Big J” or “Black Dragon,” USS New Jersey (BB-62) has the distinction of being one of the most decorated battleships to have served in the...
Russia’s war on Ukraine entered a new phase early in April as Putin belatedly recognized the failure of his assaults on Kyiv. The decimated...
Pavlo Kyrylenko, the Ukrainian Governor of Donetsk Oblast, told CNN on Friday that Mariupol is still being defended by Ukrainian soldiers despite the city...
BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS—On Friday evening, Rwandan Paul Kagame arrived in Barbados, his latest stop in a whirlwind Caribbean tour. The meeting between Kagame and Prime...
U.S. Pledges Heavier Weapons To Ukraine, While Javelin Stocks Run Low – The United States has pledged an additional $800 million aid package to...
