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When Trump's Iran war ends with a signed settlement, the verdicts will come fast — and most will be premature. The questions that actually...
The Iran Deal Won’t Buy America Security. It Will Cost It: Proponents of the emerging nuclear agreement with Iran have settled on a convenient...
Europe's most ambitious fighter program is dead: the Franco-German FCAS collapsed after Paris and Berlin couldn't agree on control. Now eight German and Spanish...
A new GAO report finds Boeing's KC-46A Pegasus has missed its availability and capability standards every year since 2019, leaving the Air Force dependent...
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...
On a spec sheet the USS Gerald R. Ford beats China's new Fujian aircraft carrier on nearly every number — bigger, nuclear, more aircraft,...
America and China agree the future of air combat is a stealth fighter directing a swarm of drones. They disagree on who commands it....
A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base in California at 11:20 a.m. Monday, sending up a...
China has been flying two sixth-generation fighter prototypes — the three-engine J-36 and the J-50 — in open daylight for 18 months, while America's...
Greece has selected Embraer's C-390 over a new Lockheed C-130 to replace its aging Hercules fleet, approving €600 million for three jets. It's the...
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...
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...
Seemingly private technology companies lead China’s military modernization efforts. Not surprisingly, the national security community and the American public are suspicious of them, but...
The Biden administration recently announced a new condition for the successful withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. A peace agreement between the Afghan government and...
Two Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers made a long-haul flight from the American Midwest this month to aid in efforts to secure efforts to bring...
This past weekend, the U.S. Navy christened its newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers (DDGs), the future USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG-123). The warship is...
The Rockwell B-1B Lancer bomber has been flying high since the 1980s and the United States Air Force has recently conducted tests to determine...
