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U.S. Intelligence Says No Taiwan Invasion by 2027. Critics Say That’s Naive The subject of China’s plans to invade Taiwan provokes steady debate, and...
Operation Epic Fury Is Entering Its Fifth Week — Trump’s Iran War Timeline Aligns With the Pentagon’s Original Planning Window U.S. President Donald Trump...
11,000 Munitions Gone in a Month in the Iran War. Now, Imagine Fighting China If the United States cannot secure a clean victory over...
The Memphis Belle World War Two Bomber Is Unforgettable This airplane is the pride of the Volunteer State. The B-17 bomber known as the...
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 strain in US-European relations under the second Trump administration stems primarily from a deepening ideological divide, not just policy disputes over trade or...
The SR-71 Blackbird Grew Out of the CIA’s A-12 Oxcart Program — And Immediately Competed With CORONA Reconnaissance Satellites for Funding At 19FortyFive, part...
The X-32 is one of the more intriguing “what if” stories from the first decade of the post-Cold War era. Designed in the 1990s...
U.S. Aircraft Carriers Must Stay Beyond Visual Range to Survive China’s Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles — That Reduces Their Fighter Wings’ Effectiveness The People’s Liberation...
We Visited the USS Iowa in Los Angeles and Photographed the Last Battleship Class the U.S. Navy Ever Built — These Are Our Original...
The Iran War Is Now Becoming a Strait of Hormuz Showdown The war in Iran began just over a month ago, when the United...
The U.S. Air Force probably wouldn’t land on anyone’s list as a top-paying employer. However, learning a valuable skill in the Air Force—especially one...
The U.S. Navy Built 24 Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers. It Can’t Pull That Off Again The U.S. was able to build twenty-four Essex-class aircraft carriers...
From Chernobyl’s Reactor to DARPA’s Lab to the International Space Station: How a Fungus Became a Pentagon Priority Nearly 40 years ago, in April...
The 2023 NDAA Blocks Unilateral NATO Withdrawal Without a Two-Thirds Senate Vote — But a De Facto Exit Is Far More Feasible In April...
Forget Iran: China’s DF-21D and DF-26 Carrier-Killer Missiles Can Hold U.S. Surface Ships at Risk Beyond the First Island Chain More than a month...
Iran Can Never Be Allowed to Have Nuclear Weapons. America Must Keep Going When the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran broke out in late February,...
Trump Said the Iran War Will Continue: We Have More Questions Than Answers After His Speech The world was on pins and needles waiting...
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...
The Taiwanese Navy may be far smaller than that of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of mainland China, but the island nation has...
Russian has significantly increased its efforts to track and monitor the movements of NATO warships in the Black Sea. Just days after Russian warships...
The number “35” isn’t unique as multiple military aircraft use that particular model number. In addition to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, there...
A Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II is now undergoing final checks at the Cameri airbase in Italy – home to the European country’s F-35...
As President Joe Biden met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in mid-June about the spate of Russian-origin cyber-attacks on America, a growing number of...
