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The United Nations Charter was signed on June 26, 1945, seven weeks after the end of the Second World War in Europe. The war...
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While everyone knows about the iconic F-22 Raptor and the ubiquitous F-35 Lightning II, China’s Chengdu J-20 (as well as their J-35) fifth-generation warplane...
USS Long Beach commissioned in 1961 as the first nuclear-powered surface warship, and she looked like nothing else afloat — a slab-sided superstructure built...
A cruise missile came down about 90 kilometers inside Poland and hurt no one. That incident will be logged and forgotten. The question underneath...
Ottawa is still debating whether to complete its purchase of 88 F-35s, and the arithmetic has moved against it. The original figure was about...
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...
Western analysts fixate on North Korea's missiles. The real danger is speed — a mass artillery-and-missile salvo in the war's first hours, backed by...
The second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
USS Midway entered service with 18 five-inch guns, room for 120 aircraft and a 3.5-inch armored flight deck. Four steam turbines produced 212,000 shaft...
Built for $52.8 million, USS South Dakota displaced 44,519 tons at full load and fired a 24,300-pound armor-piercing broadside. “Battleship X” survived Santa Cruz...
USS North Carolina combined 44,800 tons, 121,000 horsepower and nine 16-inch guns in one treaty-era battleship. She survived a Japanese torpedo, earned 15 battle...
USS Massachusetts cost about $80 million, displaced 44,519 tons at full combat load and carried nine 16-inch guns able to throw a 24,300-pound armor-piercing...
No vessel entered any of the three Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on Wednesday, the first such day since the grain corridor opened...
Oil futures are signaling that traders expect prices to fall over the coming months, despite the war and the disruption around Hormuz. The bet...
Ukraine's long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries have spread the fuel crisis into the countryside just as harvest begins, one analyst argues, with farmers...
Two tankers loaded with Saudi crude reversed course in the Red Sea — without being fired on — after the Houthis threatened any ship...
Getting to Somaliland used to be simple. Then Somaliland refused more than a quarter of a billion dollars to drop Taiwan, and the routes...
Zelensky met Raytheon executives in Kyiv, saying Ukraine is moving to co-produce Patriot missiles under plans he discussed with Trump — though waiting lists...
In a new analysis, national security expert James Jay Carafano argues President Trump has already achieved America's key objectives against Iran and is de-risking...
The Pentagon's official count of American troops killed in the Iran conflict dropped from eighteen to fourteen between Wednesday and Thursday, the New York...
North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives...
Xi's first Pyongyang visit in seven years, a ratified Russia pact, and a declaration that the arsenal is permanent: Andrew Latham on why the...
Last year North Korea's newest destroyer rolled over at its own launch, and the world assumed the program was finished for years. Instead Pyongyang...
The KN-23, North Korea's version the Russian Iskander missile, showed up to fight in the Ukraine war. And it isn't the same platform as...
The United Nations Charter was signed on June 26, 1945, seven weeks after the end of the Second World War in Europe. The war...
March 8 is International Women’s Day. Officially recognized by the United Nations since 1977, it’s a big deal in the formerly communist countries of...
At a time when China has become, by all accounts, the second most important country in the world, many ask whether it should still...
Has China ever been at the center of the global economy? It has become a trope of both Western and Chinese writing about China’s...
In the famous Norman Rockwell painting “Runaway,” seen on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1958, a kindly police officer and a pubescent boy sit at...
