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Over the last few days, North Korea has been attacking South Korea and the United States in various statements after being relatively quiet for...
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Iran mostly didn't go after U.S. aircraft carriers or fighter jets. It went after the bases. Iranian missiles and drones broke through U.S. air...
It had a programmable round that could airburst over an anti-tank team, AI targeting that warned a gunner he might be aiming at a...
Everyone obsesses over the endgame, Dr. James Jay Carafano writes, and the endgame of Operation Epic Fury is already known: Iran without a nuclear...
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...
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...
In October 2002, Boeing unveiled the YF-118G Bird of Prey, a stealth demonstrator that McDonnell Douglas's Phantom Works began in 1992 and Boeing finished...
Aircraft AR-1, the first F-35 in Royal Canadian Air Force markings, flew from Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas, on September...
USS Gerald R. Ford was commissioned in 2017 with electromagnetic catapults and new arresting gear, but without the digital maintenance, logistics, and mission-data systems...
USS Nimitz was commissioned in May 1975 after seven years and almost $2 billion, and her design shaped nine more carriers through 2009. She...
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...
Surely there is reluctance among a part of the Russian population – especially those living in major cities – to see their sons dragged...
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.
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 Duma is a rubber-stamp parliament and United Russia is not going to lose it. The election still matters to Putin, for two reasons...
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...
Over the last few days, North Korea has been attacking South Korea and the United States in various statements after being relatively quiet for...
Social media today is flagging South Korean media reports that North Korea has completed new multiple ICBM and transport erector launchers (TELs). Could this...
As I noted a few days ago, North Korea is not exactly happy with South Korea these days. And, it would seem, they continue...
Overnight, Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un, lashed out at South Korea in a statement carried by KCNA. The...
There’s a big international weapons program that probably doesn’t pass the post-coronavirus pub test for supply chain security. As US President Donald Trump’s recently said, ‘It’s...
