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Over at RAND, researchers have published a new report on North Korea‘s conventional artillery that, while it doesn’t have the sex appeal of Pyongyang’s...
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Iran and Russia have both demonstrated that a mediocre power can absorb enormous punishment without surrendering, and that doing so buys almost nothing strategically....
Reagan's AWACS package looked inflated in 1981 and nobody explained why. Nine years later, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, American forces flew into Saudi air...
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...
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...
Summary and Key Points: “In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten; then he who continues the attack wins.”...
Pearl Harbor might have been a win for Japan on some levels, but history records the waking of a sleeping superpower that would later...
52 American boats were lost, and the Submarine Service had the highest loss rate of any U.S. force in the war. The holding had...
"A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guarantee of peace." Theodore Roosevelt delivered the line to Congress in...
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...
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 —...
Two shortfalls are converging on Ukraine before winter. The first is fiscal: a $27 billion defense funding gap, roughly $4 billion in European Union...
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...
Over at RAND, researchers have published a new report on North Korea‘s conventional artillery that, while it doesn’t have the sex appeal of Pyongyang’s...
July 23, 2020 will go down in history as the day Mike Pompeo launched his bid for the Presidency. No, he’s not challenging his...
In a historic speech yesterday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a blistering attack on China at the Nixon Library in California–talk about a...
India is increasingly seen as a potential strategic partner for the United States and other Western democracies. The South Asian giant is an important...
Australia last week released its first major defense policy update in four years. The one bombshell in Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement of billions...
