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While I do my best not to write on U.S. domestic politics, Donald Trump’s action yesterday to leverage multiple Executive Orders to give the...
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The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies have all warned of an escalating Russian gray...
Twenty-nine years ago today, on September 25, 1997, Sukhoi's Su-47 Berkut made its first flight with wings swept forward instead of back. Carbon composites...
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...
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...
Ten of the 12 Soryu-class boats run four Kawasaki-built Kockums Stirling engines that burn diesel with liquid oxygen, letting them stay submerged for up...
The Viking's goodbye took years. The fleet retired it in January 2009 in Jacksonville, but the VX-30 Bloodhounds at Point Mugu kept three flying...
By the early 1970s, layered Soviet air defenses of radars, surface-to-air missiles, and interceptors, along with the losses over North Vietnam, had convinced U.S....
Lockheed built the Orion from its Electra airliner after a 1957 Navy call to replace the P-2 Neptune, shortening the fuselage and adding a...
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...
While I do my best not to write on U.S. domestic politics, Donald Trump’s action yesterday to leverage multiple Executive Orders to give the...
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...
