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Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...
Three diplomatic events in ten days — a Kremlin meeting with Witkoff and Kushner, an hour on the phone with Trump, and talk of...
Moving past the F-16: Every new-build fighter now scheduled for Ukraine is European. Twenty JAS-39E/F Gripens are on contract against a letter of intent...
In 2001 the People's Liberation Army fielded a handful of fourth-generation fighters, most bought from Russia or built under Russian licence. It was not...
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...
Switzerland selected the F-35A on the understanding that CHF 6 billion bought 36 aircraft at a locked price. The lock did not exist. Under...
Nimitz was born in Fredericksburg, Texas, in 1885, wanted West Point, settled for Annapolis at sixteen, and put his first command on the bottom....
Riyadh is asking allies for military aid against the Houthis. Pakistan and Turkey have declined; the US and Israel are reportedly sharing intelligence. If...
America drew a battleship to beat Yamato and never cut the steel. The Montana-class was authorized under the Two-Ocean Navy Act, named in December...
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...
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...
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 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....
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...
Two armed drones were shot down after they approached an Iraqi base that houses U.S. troops near the Baghdad airport on Monday, a U.S.-led...
A U.S. Navy nuclear aircraft carrier strike group has altered its deployment schedule to be close to Ukraine in the event of a Russian...
As the new year began, President Joe Biden reaffirmed U.S. support to Ukraine in the event of a Russian invasion. The reaffirmation of support...
The United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, and China, the countries with the most nuclear weapons and fully declared nuclear weapons states, issued a...
Jan.6: A Collective Warning to America? A year ago, diehard supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol to disrupt the certification of the...
