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The Navy commissioned USS Cleveland, the sixteenth and last Freedom-class littoral combat ship, on May 16. Ten weeks later it decommissioned USS Fort Worth...
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...
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...
Australia set four requirements in 1978: suited to Australasian waters, advanced combat systems, supported by Australian industry, usable in peace and war. It wanted...
In early 2015, during a Composite Training Unit Exercise off the coast of Florida, the French Navy's Saphir, a Rubis-class nuclear attack submarine commissioned...
France embargoed Israel in 1967 and took its main aircraft supplier away overnight. By 1974 the Israeli Ministry of Defence was asking Washington for...
HMS Queen Elizabeth, Britain's largest warship, left Portsmouth on September 5 for three months of operations and training, the first step toward replacing HMS...
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...
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 —...
Two shortfalls are converging on Ukraine before winter. The first is fiscal: a $27 billion defense funding gap, roughly $4 billion in European Union...
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...
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...
I was lucky to have Tom Nichols as a mentor and professor rough a decade ago and I have always found his honest and...
The following was a rushed transcript from an MSNBC segment featuring former national security adviser H.R. McMaster (see the video above). While H.R. still...
If you are a reader of this publication you know quite well I have given up on any hopes of North Korea agreeing to...
I had a chance to catch up with famed economist Milton Ezrati on the state of the U.S. economy and how it is still...
The following is the full transcript of remarks by North Korea’s UN Ambassador, Kim Song, to the UN General Assembly yesterday that made some...
