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Russia and Iran signed a mutual trade agreement this week, establishing trade centers in Saint Petersburg and Tehran. The “memorandum of understanding” (MoU) will...
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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...
Analysts dismissed American control of the Strait of Hormuz as a near-impossible task. The US government now says it has been helping tankers move...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Wallace "Chip" Gregson warns that the U.S. Navy is clinging to steam catapult doctrine while the problem set has moved....
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...
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 three words were the Academy's motto, not his — what he brought to them was the century's most spectacular military life: the first...
Most of the carrier-design specialists who spoke to 19FortyFive were also quick to point out the negative implications of going back to a steam-powered...
He spoke from memory because reading was his lifelong enemy — and that provenance detail unlocks the real Patton: the repeated year at West...
MANTA remained a largely conceptual plane. In 2003, NASA even published a history of its experimental aircraft concepts, including the X-44 in that compendium...
Of the 1.5 billion barrels in emergency stocks, the IEA cannot order the commercial half released, leaving governments under a billion. The American reserve...
The Houthis have no warships. It doesn't need any. A blockade holds if shipowners and insurers decide the passage is not worth the risk,...
Washington redirected 55 commercial vessels away from Iranian ports as of Sunday, up from 35 a week earlier, while the Kpler intelligence firm counted...
Supply boats bring food and water. Wages arrive late or not at all. A union leader likens it to imprisonment, and one Indian sailor...
Drones reached Moscow on three of the last five nights. A ballistic missile would not extend Ukraine's reach so much as compress Russia's warning...
Georgia Gilholy reports on Trump's map post declaring Hormuz 'New U.S. Territory,' a vessel struck off Oman hours earlier per UK Maritime Trade Operations,...
When it comes to severe economic pressure, Washington has massive options between everything and nothing. Something in the middle that hurts Iran a lot...
Even during genuine unipolar periods, pursuing excessively ambitious goals placed severe strain on America’s military, economic, and political systems. Attempting to do so now...
Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine since late 2023. The early shots missed by kilometers. Later ones did not. That combat...
Iran's Shahab-1 came from the Scud-B and reached 300km. The Khorramshahr, derived from North Korea's Musudan, reaches 2,000km — a 6.7-fold increase in reach.
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...
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...
Russia and Iran signed a mutual trade agreement this week, establishing trade centers in Saint Petersburg and Tehran. The “memorandum of understanding” (MoU) will...
Like killer bees on the battlefield, Stinger shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles are still punishing Russian aircraft and reminding the invaders that they do not have...
Loitering Munitions (known as Suicide Drones) Continue to Make Waves in Ukraine – At first glance, the grueling battle currently evolving in Ukraine’s Donbas...
Russia Blusters over Kaliningrad, Lithuania Maintains Rail Restrictions – Lithuania’s June 18 announcement that it had imposed a ban on the transit of Russian...
No F-22 Raptor Retirements? The U.S. House and Senate Armed Services Committees are working to mandate the Air Force to upgrade its fleet of F-22...
