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AUKUS is best known for promising Australia nuclear-powered submarines: rotating U.S. and UK boats, Virginia-class SSNs in the 2030s, then SSN-AUKUS. But U.S. yards...
On September 17, the State Department approved a possible foreign military sale of 48 F-35 Lightning II fighters to Saudi Arabia, a deal estimated...
Surely there is reluctance among a part of the Russian population – especially those living in major cities – to see their sons dragged...
Almost all of the names are in their late forties to mid-fifties, and that is the point. Putin's own generation — men like FSB...
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...
On May 14, 1916, George Patton used three cars in a raid near San Miguelito and killed Julio Cardenas. In 1943 his Seventh Army...
Britain’s Challenger 3 is a new turret and L55A1 smoothbore on a lighter Challenger 2 hull. America’s M1A2 SEPv3 is decades of Abrams upgrades,...
Satellite images show Russia stretching nets over submarines at Rybachiy on the Kamchatka Peninsula, including Borei-class ballistic-missile boats of the Pacific Fleet, about 4,600...
George C. Marshall put Dwight D. Eisenhower in War Plans in 1941. Ike then ran Operation Torch, Sicily, and Italy before commanding Operation Overlord...
Four ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz Thursday against a 10-day average of 16. Iran said it hit tanker Trend on Friday. Brent is...
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...
Volodymyr Zelenskiy is set to meet with US President Donald Trump and discuss current and possible new initiatives aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
The Duma is a rubber-stamp parliament and United Russia is not going to lose it. The election still matters to Putin, for two reasons...
On the morning of September 14, a Russian drone exploded beside a train carrying delegates home from the Yalta European Strategy summit, about 1.2...
Russia's negotiating position has not shifted across eight visits to Moscow by Steve Witkoff, and Putin's precondition remains the whole of Donetsk oblast —...
Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...
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...
In the 1950s, then-Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin famously observed that “inflation is a thief in the night and if we do not...
Over the Summer we’ve seen the debate over the tactics of withdrawal from Afghanistan ebb and flow as headlines announce more bad news. Those...
Russia’s cutting-edge T-14 Armata tank was first displayed publicly on May 9, 2015, at the Moscow Victory Day Parade in Red Square, and during...
The pandemic has impacted pricing with the cost of bicycles, backyard pools, frozen pizzas, and of course firearms ammunition–all increasing to record levels over...
It is a truism of American political consulting that it is difficult and pointless to try to convince American voters that foreign policy matters....
