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Canada Can Pick Between the F-35 and JAS 39 Gripen Fighters: The Choice Should Be Clear When it comes to machines, certain debates seem...
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The war began on 28 February with little public explanation. The administration did not make a full case to Congress or to the country,...
A modern Arleigh Burke Flight III destroyer costs about $3 billion. At $23.4 billion, USS Defiant represents nearly eight of them. Pursuing the battleship...
The maximalists wanted regime change, the minimalists wanted nothing, and the doubters see only waffling. Carafano's answer: the victor gets to define victory —...
Reports indicate that American short-range ballistic missile inventories have been nearly exhausted and Tomahawk stockpiles badly depleted during the war with Iran. Patriot interceptors...
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 US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
Earth takes 365 days to orbit the Sun and Mars takes about 687, so the two planets line up for an efficient transfer only...
Russia's military spending from 1 January 2022 through 31 March 2026 came to 53.1 trillion rubles — roughly $625 billion using year-by-year conversion. Net...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked Donald Trump during closed-door White House talks on 28 July to persuade Elon Musk to let Ukraine expand its use of...
The Navy now has seven Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarines under contract, but the lead boat is at least 18 months late. Public program data put...
No vessel entered any of the three Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on Wednesday, the first such day since the grain corridor opened...
Oil futures are signaling that traders expect prices to fall over the coming months, despite the war and the disruption around Hormuz. The bet...
Ukraine's long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries have spread the fuel crisis into the countryside just as harvest begins, one analyst argues, with farmers...
Two tankers loaded with Saudi crude reversed course in the Red Sea — without being fired on — after the Houthis threatened any ship...
Trump calls the strait "sort of open." Iran calls the arrangement "a new and different model." Last June, vague wording in a similar deal...
A peace settlement would have to resolve occupied territory, Ukraine's relationship with the West and sanctions, and neither government is close enough to the...
Ukraine on Tuesday executed a series of drone strikes on an industrial zone near Moscow, and across the whole country, strikes on three warehouses...
On July 20, a China Coast Guard team in a small boat closed on Philippine sailors near Second Thomas Shoal and repeatedly struck one...
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...
Last year North Korea's newest destroyer rolled over at its own launch, and the world assumed the program was finished for years. Instead Pyongyang...
The KN-23, North Korea's version the Russian Iskander missile, showed up to fight in the Ukraine war. And it isn't the same platform as...
Canada Can Pick Between the F-35 and JAS 39 Gripen Fighters: The Choice Should Be Clear When it comes to machines, certain debates seem...
The U.S. Navy’s Columbia-Class Is the Future of America’s Nuclear Weapons Strategy…and It Has Some Issues to Iron Out Fast In the literal sense,...
Russia’s Tiny Su-57 Felon Stealth Fighter Fleet Isn’t Built for Modern Warfare Russia’s Sukhoi Su-57 program is the definition of great power ambition colliding with industrial reality,...
Quote of the Day from General and President George Washington Still Shapes America in 2026 “If we desire to secure peace, one of the...
Video footage released on March 26 showed a very near miss by an Iranian man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS) on an F/A-18 Super Hornet. The...
