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Tight alignment with Canada means the United States need not garrison a 5,500-mile border, fear cross-border infiltration, or hold military units at home to...
The consequences of 9/11 ran straight into the procurement system. The Navy, unable to explain its role in a war on terror, committed to...
Michael Rubin's argument at 25 years is that almost nothing was learned. The hijackers were neither poor nor occupied, yet the assumption that grievance...
Twenty-five years on, the familiar verdict is that American intelligence agencies failed to warn. Lieutenant General Wallace "Chip" Gregson argues the failure was broader...
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...
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...
USS South Dakota: Nine 16-inch/45 Mark 6 rifles in three triple turrets, twenty 5-inch/38s, and by 1945 some 76 Bofors 40mm and 67 Oerlikon...
USS Indiana: Nine 16-inch/45 Mark 6 rifles in three triple turrets, twenty 5-inch/38s, and then the real wartime armament: 76 Bofors 40mm and 67...
On May 12 the Air Force and Boeing announced a readiness plan with an unusual first item: five early-production KC-46s that were not due...
For the SR-71 Blackbird, Corning spent years and millions developing solid quartz windows because ordinary glass would have distorted. The wing skin was deliberately...
"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...
Rezaei's threat goes beyond the strait: no oil leaving the Gulf by any route if neighbors cooperate. In practice that would mean strikes on...
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 US and Canada have 3 unsettled maritime disputes: the Beaufort Sea, the Northwest Passage, and a rock in the Bay of Fundy. None...
Splitting Russia into 4 or 5 states would be neither unprecedented nor strange. There are more than 20 Arab countries. Somalis live across 5....
Wars rarely win elections. George H.W. Bush ended the Cold War, won the most decisive American military victory in modern history, and lost in...
Speaking in Baghdad on August 20, Iran's parliament speaker warned that military power counts for nothing if the people are hungry. Four days later...
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...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine since late 2023. The early shots missed by kilometers. Later ones did not. That combat...
Ukraine Crisis: Russian Cyberattacks on America Could Be Imminent – On Monday, President Joe Biden urged American companies to do everything they could to...
Israel Says Russia No Longer Wants to Depose Zelenskyy – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said this week that Russian President Vladimir Putin has...
Did Russia Accidentally Admit the True Russian Soldier Death Count? – Russian tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda this week published and then quickly removed a...
All Signs Point to Putin Using Chemical Weapons – Following reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be considering instructing his armed forces to...
Putin’s Big Plan to Seize Odesa? – On day 27 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops continue to struggle. Despite the constant shelling,...
