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China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea aren’t just military infrastructure—they’re permanently staffed military nodes housing between 5,000 and 10,000 troops across 27...
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Germany hadn’t spent 1.5 percent of GDP on defense since 1996. Then came the Zeitenwende: €100 billion for the Bundeswehr and a 4,800-strong brigade...
A former US Navy ASW operator says the Kilo-class ‘black hole’ hype was a joke. Quiet only at 3 knots, it has to snorkel...
Tehran's strategy was to wait out the midterms. Instead the US kept the war going past Memorial Day, cleared the strait, tightened the maritime...
A ground war in Iran would be a mistake, argues Dr. Robert Kelly. Holding a country the size of Alaska with 90 million people...
Sabotage at Leipzig, Swindon, and Skarżysko-Kamienna. A curfew across the river from Narva. New garrisons at Petrozavodsk, Lupche-Savino, and Pechenga pointing at Finland's 830-mile...
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...
A B-52 carried him to 45,000 feet and let go. Sixty seconds of rocket burn emptied 15,400 pounds from the drop tanks, Knight jettisoned...
Running silent on batteries and hiding in the ocean’s thermal layers, a 2,450-ton Dutch Walrus-class submarine slipped through a US Navy escort screen in...
The Navy is retiring its biggest Tomahawk magazines: four Ohio-class SSGNs at 154 missiles each and Ticonderoga cruisers with 122 cells, replaced by Burkes...
China’s shipbuilding capacity is 200 times America’s. The Navy’s answer, the 10,000-ton, $8 billion SSN(X), slipped from the mid-2030s to the 2040s because Electric...
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...
The rial has hit 2.5 million to the dollar, inflation is projected near 69 percent, and Iranian oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz...
Twenty-five years on, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the US mistook quiet for peace. A RAND strategist argues it is doing...
The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies have all warned of an escalating Russian gray...
Surely there is reluctance among a part of the Russian population – especially those living in major cities – to see their sons dragged...
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...
China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea aren’t just military infrastructure—they’re permanently staffed military nodes housing between 5,000 and 10,000 troops across 27...
On November 15, 1967, Air Force Major Michael J. Adams was killed when the third X-15 broke apart at Mach 3.93 and 65,000 feet...
The U.S. Air Force just cleared a Critical Design Review for the new B-52J Stratofortress—the most powerful version of America’s iconic bomber ever built....
A new study has uncovered a deeply troubling problem in the world’s network of undersea commercial tunnels: rubber GINA gaskets are degrading 35% faster...
China’s island-building campaign is mostly addressed from a military angle. But ecologists often describe the decline as among the fastest in coral reef history....
