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Key Points and Summary: The Convair B-58 Hustler was an innovative supersonic bomber developed during the Cold War to outperform Soviet air defenses. First...
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Since President Donald Trump implemented his long-threatened tariffs on Canadian imports yesterday the potential scale of the damage they threaten to inflict on our...
The ongoing war in Ukraine, now surpassing three years of relentless conflict, continues to shape Europe’s strategic landscape profoundly. President Donald Trump’s unwavering stance...
The war in Ukraine, now entering its fourth brutal year, remains a geopolitical flashpoint that tests Western unity and resolve. Kyiv’s urgent calls for...
The United States and Russia are pushing forward with talks to end the Russia-Ukraine War, even after U.S. President Donald Trump hosted Ukrainian President...
The Munich Security Conference and the days that followed, including the senior level US-Russia meeting in Saudi Arabia, have witnessed massive turbulence in transatlantic...
Since the COVID pandemic, Europe has fallen on hard economic times, and the continent’s absolute and relative economic decline has deepened over the past...
As Donald J. Trump takes office as the country’s 47th President, American foreign and security policy are at an inflection point. While analysts routinely...
The United States is on the cusp of perhaps the most fundamental rethinking of its foreign policy since 1945. The inauguration of the second...
In November 2023, retired UK General Sir Richard Barrons addressed an audience of European leaders at the Lucerne Dialogue in Switzerland. Speaking to the...
Key Points and Summary: The British Royal Navy’s HMS Daring, a Type 45 destroyer, has spent more time in maintenance than active duty due...
Key Points and Summary: The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program, introduced in the 2000s to address coastal threats, included two designs: the...
Key Points and Summary: The U.S. Air Force has relocated its entire B-1B Lancer bomber fleet from Ellsworth AFB to Grand Forks and Andersen...
It’s generally understood that Social Security’s main trust fund will lose the ability to pay out full benefits at some point in the mid-1930s....
Donald Trump came back into office in January, promising a trade war. He’s not yet delivered on the war, but he’s certainly delivered much...
Since the start of the second Trump presidency, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been taking a hammer to the federal bureaucracy,...
Trump’s Tariffs Look Like a Giant Mistake: It was said of the Habsburgs that they learnt nothing and forgot nothing. Something similar might be...
Key Points and Summary: If U.S. military aid to Ukraine stops, Europe’s defense industries would struggle to fill the gap, experts say. American assistance...
Reports that Russia and the United States would meet in Riyadh without representatives from Ukraine or the rest of Europe sent waves of panic...
If anything has become crystal clear over the last few days it is that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wants long-term security guarantees from the...
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance threw down the gauntlet in their Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Three years...
To the horror of many South Koreans, Donald Trump has returned to the White House. No one, including perhaps President Trump, knows what he...
South Korea’s political turmoil of martial law, impeachments, and vitriolic attacks among its political parties has entered its third month—and it’s likely that several...
The North Korean regime must be celebrating. After years of bad news on its foreign relations, the regime is finally getting what it presumably...
North Korea fired a shot across the stern of the outgoing Biden administration by launching a missile during Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit...
Key Points and Summary: The Convair B-58 Hustler was an innovative supersonic bomber developed during the Cold War to outperform Soviet air defenses. First...
Article Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer experienced a long evolution, overcoming mission changes and design alterations since its initial...
Key Points and Summary: The Pentagon’s budget review under the Trump administration has sparked anxiety about potential defense cuts. However, despite budget efficiency measures,...
Key Points and Summary: Advances in non-acoustic submarine detection could undermine traditional stealth advantages. Technologies exploiting magnetic field disturbances, bioluminescent organisms, submarine-generated waves, thermal...
Just six months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, defense contractor General Dynamics introduced a new version of the iconic M1 Abrams tank. The tank,...
