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For twenty years, HMS Hood, the lead ship of her class of four planned battlecruisers, was the largest warship in the world. Sadly, her...
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At last. Washington is calling a halt to the Twenty Years’ War in Afghanistan—and performing what Naval Diplomat colleague and pal Marc Genest took...
The North Korean Artillery Threat North Korea’s continued development of its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile capabilities remains a top national security threat. These...
A specter is now haunting the emerging market economies. It is the specter of U.S. economic overheating that will raise interest rates and provoke...
All eyes are on Afghanistan after President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will withdraw American troops from the country by September 11, 2021. While...
An old book from the 1950s explains How to Lie with Statistics. Author Darrell Huff alerts readers to be on guard against those who...
A common refrain in these pixels is that strategic competition is an armed debate in which debaters—great powers, usually—flourish implements of war in an...
19FortyFive explores the causes and effects, dangers and opportunities of rampant change to the international system. So does this blog. It is 19FortyFive with...
Riddle me this: does a contender intent on overthrowing the international system harbor “limited” or “unlimited” political goals? This may sound like an idle...
Something must be said of the fighting spirit of the men who come from the British Isles, and the might Royal Marines. During the...
This week the White House told Congress that it will proceed with a more than $23 billion deal to sell weapons to the United...
The Royal Navy had been able to maintain its dominance over rival navies both in sheer numbers, but also in having the most advanced...
Moscow warned the U.S. Navy to stay away from Crimea “for their own good,” and called the deployment of U.S. warships to the Black...
Judging by Fed Chief Jerome Powell’s recent pronouncements, today’s slightly higher than expected consumer price inflation numbers are almost certain to be dismissed by...
“The Interstate Highway System transformed the way we traveled, lived, worked, and developed,” said President Biden in the March 31 speech introducing his American Jobs Plan. “Imagine...
Hyman Minsky, the late renowned credit market expert, must be rolling in his grave at the sight of Italy, the Eurozone’s very troubled and...
As part of his infrastructure plan, President Biden is proposing to raise the federal corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent and broaden...
President Joe Biden announced yesterday that he would withdraw all remaining U.S. forces from Afghanistan to end the “forever war.” Bizarrely, he made the...
The United States has poured billions of dollars into Somalia in recent years, not only for aid and development but also to support police...
In President Biden’s first press conference, he was asked about Afghanistan and on this subject, two aspects of his answers stood out. The first...
On April 11, 2021, a blackout struck Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility causing it severe damage a day after President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated new,...
In general, no federal law prohibits businesses from asking for proof of vaccination as a condition of consumer services or employment. Kathryn Watson of...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is recommending the federal government and state governments stop administering Johnson & Johnson’s Covid‐19 vaccine. Some 7 million Americans have...
President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 in early March. The first major piece of legislation to pass in the...
The ongoing mutations of the novel coronavirus that have already produced several highly contagious variants could render current vaccines ineffective within a year, according...
Democratic lawmakers have taken up the call from President Joe Biden by introducing new gun control legislation. This has included bills that could ban...
During his Rose Garden address earlier this month, President Joe Biden spoke about gun violence and was direct to the point, “Gun violence in...
History has a way of repeating itself. As President Joe Biden pushes his gun control agenda it could end up costing the Democrats control...
Anyone who has headed to a gun shop or browsed online for ammunition knows nearly every caliber is in short supply, but help is...
19FortyFive has confirmed that North Korea is near completion of a submarine that is most likely configured to fire a ballistic missile, according to...
The Korean Peninsula remains one of the world’s most dangerous hotspots, with the potential for the outbreak of a truly calamitous conflict. Much of...
North Korea’s recent testing of “newly-developed tactical guided missiles” has raised the specter of possible North Korean development of tactical nuclear weapons. Indeed, North...
In late March, North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) towards the East Sea, marking the country’s first ballistic missile launch since President...
For twenty years, HMS Hood, the lead ship of her class of four planned battlecruisers, was the largest warship in the world. Sadly, her...
There is an old joke: how can you tell when a politician is lying? The answer: his lips are moving. In the case of...
The second vessel of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the state of Wisconsin, the Iowa-class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64)...
After the conclusion of Korean War hostilities, the South Korean government found itself economically healing, but with a near-total reliance on the United States...
Much attention has been made of the Sukhoi Su-35, Russia’s multirole fighter that was originally developed by the Soviet Union from the Su-27. However,...
