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In March 2026, France named its next carrier the France Libre and began building the most ambitious warship in European history, an 80,000-ton nuclear...
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American-flagged vessels account for less than 0.3 percent of the shipping carrying U.S. trade, and the country graduates several hundred naval architects a year...
Both sides would use a Ukraine war pause to rearm, and a longer pause may mean a bloodier spring. Michael Rubin argues Kyiv should...
Tirpitz's "risk theory" was not a plan to defeat Britain but to make defeating Germany so costly that Britain would seek accommodation. It required...
An Iowa-class battleship carried about 3,000 officers and sailors in the Second World War and still needed nearly 1,600 after 1980s modernization — a...
The Trump administration’s deal to allow Russian diesel into the United States blindsided Kyiv and Europe alike — halting peace talks, triggering threats to...
Sabotage at Leipzig, Swindon, and Skarżysko-Kamienna. A curfew across the river from Narva. New garrisons at Petrozavodsk, Lupche-Savino, and Pechenga pointing at Finland's 830-mile...
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...
A July 31 GAO report found the Air Force’s $21 billion B-52J upgrade’s two biggest programs, Rolls-Royce F130 engines and an AESA radar, more...
On March 21, 1984, Soviet submarine K-314 surfaced with no lights in the path of the USS Kitty Hawk, 150 miles east of Pohang....
The Royal Navy cannot keep its five Astute-class submarines maintained with only two British shipyards certified for nuclear submarines, yet it plans 12 SSN-AUKUS...
The war in Ukraine has shown that drone swarms and cheap anti-tank munitions have wrecked main battle tanks on both sides, 19FortyFive’s Brandon J....
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...
For four and a half years the request was essentially a check, and the argument was that a properly supplied David could match Goliath....
Let Trump be Trump—which he will be anyway. Even if his peace efforts fail (which is entirely possible), American interests will be protected, and...
Dr. Robert Kelly argues that Donald Trump’s second term is alienating allies as no president has since 1945: refusing Saudi Arabia’s request to strike...
Signing the largest Russia sanctions package to date and then floating a diesel arrangement looks contradictory only if one assumes the two acts are...
President Trump says he gets along with Kim Jong Un and wants a new summit before the end of 2026, along with smaller US-South...
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...
In March 2026, France named its next carrier the France Libre and began building the most ambitious warship in European history, an 80,000-ton nuclear...
On November 18, 2026, Voyager 1 will cross a milestone no machine has ever reached: it will sit a full light-day from Earth. From...
For most of a century the US and Canada have shared the longest undefended border on Earth. For part of that century, both capitals...
For years, Saab was Europe's outlier, the one major builder openly questioning whether the answer to the sixth-generation fighter was even a crewed jet,...
Taiwan's army has begun its 2026 Shen Gong live-fire exercise, with particular emphasis on the US-supplied FIM-92 Stinger, fired from four different launch platforms...
