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F-15I Was Built for Long-Range Strikes—and the F-15EX Wasn’t: Summary and Key Points for This Article -The F-15 began as an air-to-air dominance fighter,...
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All five of Britain's Astute-class nuclear attack submarines are sidelined in port at once, awaiting maintenance the Royal Navy lacks the dry docks and...
Ukrainian-linked hackers obtained internal documents on Russia's PAK DA stealth bomber, Moscow's answer to the B-21 Raider. The files reveal a program still assembling...
American analysts keep mirror-imaging China's J-20 as a rival dogfighter to the F-22. That's the wrong lens. The Mighty Dragon is evolving into a...
Chinese military analysts believe the J-35 stealth fighter may be able to carry four YJ-15 supersonic anti-ship missiles internally — hidden, with no radar-signature...
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...
The B-21 Just Cleared Another Major Milestone The B-21 Raider program continues to progress rapidly, and on June 11, Edwards Air Force Base confirmed...
The Navy wants 15 nuclear-powered Trump-class battleships — 40,000-ton arsenal ships armed with hypersonic missiles — with the first, USS Defiant, due by 2036....
The F-35C's engine exhaust reportedly hits 3,600°F — far hotter than the Ford's flight deck was built to take. So the $13 billion supercarrier...
A new GAO report finds the F-35 can perform all its assigned missions only about a quarter of the time — a readiness rate...
President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for a 2-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump is the first sitting U.S. president...
Canada committed in 2023 to buy 88 Lockheed Martin F-35A stealth fighters to replace its CF-18 fleet — today it has firmly committed to...
Two classified Russian military satellites maintained a 10-foot gap in low Earth orbit on April 28, while traveling at 17,000 miles per hour. The...
A new study has uncovered a deeply troubling problem in the world’s network of undersea commercial tunnels: rubber GINA gaskets are degrading 35% faster...
Under a revised AUKUS deal confirmed May 30, Australia will buy three secondhand Virginia-class submarines from the US Navy instead of the mix of...
Summary and Key Points: At the 1985 Geneva Summit, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev issued a joint statement declaring that a...
On May 9, 2026, Russia held its annual Victory Day parade in Red Square. It was the shortest in the event’s history. Just 43...
The U.S. war with Iran has now lasted more than two months. Pentagon munitions stockpiles are critically short. The Pentagon recently attempted to reclaim...
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...
F-15I Was Built for Long-Range Strikes—and the F-15EX Wasn’t: Summary and Key Points for This Article -The F-15 began as an air-to-air dominance fighter,...
Summary and Key Points: USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7), a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, is slated for a major maintenance period after its recent deployment,...
Summary and Key Points – General George S. Patton’s legendary success wasn’t merely a byproduct of aggression; it was defined by the calculated selection...
Summary and Key Points: China is ramping up stealth aviation, fielding hundreds of J-20s and moving the newer, twin-engine J-35A toward production. -That sets...
Summary and Key Points: Building two stealthy sixth-generation fighters in parallel—F-47 and F/A-XX—would strain a U.S. industrial base that has consolidated into a handful...
