Realism and Restraint
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Every commander-in-chief in a protracted conflict gets the Rorschach treatment, writes Dr. James Jay Carafano — and after a midterm defeat, a failed impeachment...
The US Navy has outlined its vision for SSN(X), the next-generation nuclear-powered attack submarine intended to succeed the Virginia class. Rear Adm. Andrew Miller,...
Aliyev balanced Turkey, Israel, Russia, and the US at once. Ilan Berman on why the Caspian and the Russia-Iran drone pipeline may force Baku...
Last week’s midterm rout handed Democrats both houses of Congress — and Robert Kelly maps the four foreign policy fights coming in January. Trump’s...
Putin’s proposal for a U.S.-China-Russia trilateral in China — with Ukraine and Europe excluded — has revived Beltway enthusiasm for a “Kissinger-in-reverse” bid to...
The Trump administration’s deal to allow Russian diesel into the United States blindsided Kyiv and Europe alike — halting peace talks, triggering threats to...
Sabotage at Leipzig, Swindon, and Skarżysko-Kamienna. A curfew across the river from Narva. New garrisons at Petrozavodsk, Lupche-Savino, and Pechenga pointing at Finland's 830-mile...
The Witkoff-Kushner shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv ended, predictably, without a breakthrough — and Andrew Michta argues the failure reveals something deeper than bad...
A new Government Accountability Office report finds the Pentagon still cannot reliably track the spare parts supporting the F-35 Lightning II, despite audits dating...
The former USS Enterprise (CVN-65) left Newport News Shipbuilding on November 2, 2026, on her final voyage to Mobile, Alabama, where she will be...
China’s J-35 stealth fighter is moving from prototype to service. Both the carrier variant and the land-based J-35A appeared with in-service markings at a...
Russia’s Northern Fleet flagship, the Kirov-class nuclear battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy, has not sailed since 2022 and is unlikely to be modernized. A commission has...
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...
Both parties are reading the midterms as a mandate to walk away from Israel — Democrats making AIPAC a litmus test, JD Vance blaming...
Dr. Robert Kelly, a professor of international relations at Pusan National University, argues the separation of powers in American foreign policy has nearly collapsed,...
Both sides would use a Ukraine war pause to rearm, and a longer pause may mean a bloodier spring. Michael Rubin argues Kyiv should...
For four and a half years the request was essentially a check, and the argument was that a properly supplied David could match Goliath....
President Trump says he gets along with Kim Jong Un and wants a new summit before the end of 2026, along with smaller US-South...
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...
I’ve taken a close interest in civil‐military relations for decades. I was taught the importance of civilian control over the U.S. military as a young NROTC midshipman....
The hospital at which I work offered antibody serology tests to all medical staff last Wednesday. The test detects IgG, the immunoglobulin that appears in...
In a post last month, we raised concerns about the unforeseen and underappreciated costs of expanding export controls on U.S. technology. Either those concerns fell on...
