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Berlin is positioning to become Kyiv's chief postwar patron. Andrew Michta on the German-Polish competition for Ukraine — and why the strained Warsaw-Kyiv partnership...
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The maximalists wanted regime change, the minimalists wanted nothing, and the doubters see only waffling. Carafano's answer: the victor gets to define victory —...
Reports indicate that American short-range ballistic missile inventories have been nearly exhausted and Tomahawk stockpiles badly depleted during the war with Iran. Patriot interceptors...
A peace settlement would have to resolve occupied territory, Ukraine's relationship with the West and sanctions, and neither government is close enough to the...
On July 20, a China Coast Guard team in a small boat closed on Philippine sailors near Second Thomas Shoal and repeatedly struck one...
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...
Western analysts fixate on North Korea's missiles. The real danger is speed — a mass artillery-and-missile salvo in the war's first hours, backed by...
The second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
Flying the Korean DMZ out of Kadena on a moonless night, former SR-71 pilot David Peters described a view unavailable from the ground: "We...
Most people associate Apollo exclusively with the Moon, which makes sense, given that Apollo only ever went there. But after the lunar landing, NASA...
Canada signed for 88 F-35As in 2023 with deliveries beginning this year, then reopened the question. Defence Minister David McGuinty has confirmed the review...
Mitsubishi Electric will build three facilities for electronics and components on the Global Combat Air Programme, and its chief financial officer expects that work...
No vessel entered any of the three Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on Wednesday, the first such day since the grain corridor opened...
Oil futures are signaling that traders expect prices to fall over the coming months, despite the war and the disruption around Hormuz. The bet...
Ukraine's long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries have spread the fuel crisis into the countryside just as harvest begins, one analyst argues, with farmers...
Two tankers loaded with Saudi crude reversed course in the Red Sea — without being fired on — after the Houthis threatened any ship...
Ukraine on Tuesday executed a series of drone strikes on an industrial zone near Moscow, and across the whole country, strikes on three warehouses...
A cruise missile came down about 90 kilometers inside Poland and hurt no one. That incident will be logged and forgotten. The question underneath...
Getting to Somaliland used to be simple. Then Somaliland refused more than a quarter of a billion dollars to drop Taiwan, and the routes...
Zelensky met Raytheon executives in Kyiv, saying Ukraine is moving to co-produce Patriot missiles under plans he discussed with Trump — though waiting lists...
North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives...
Xi's first Pyongyang visit in seven years, a ratified Russia pact, and a declaration that the arsenal is permanent: Andrew Latham on why the...
Last year North Korea's newest destroyer rolled over at its own launch, and the world assumed the program was finished for years. Instead Pyongyang...
The KN-23, North Korea's version the Russian Iskander missile, showed up to fight in the Ukraine war. And it isn't the same platform as...
Berlin is positioning to become Kyiv's chief postwar patron. Andrew Michta on the German-Polish competition for Ukraine — and why the strained Warsaw-Kyiv partnership...
Every source gives a different missile count for the Eagle II: 12, 22, 23, even 28. The audit sorts it out. Twelve air-to-air missiles...
They rehearsed the helicopter catch eleven times without a miss. Then four switches, installed upside down to a drawing nobody questioned, sent three years...
Venus melts lead, crushes machines under ninety atmospheres, and rains sulfuric acid, which is why Soviet engineers built the Venera landers like submarines and...
A Ukrainian defense advisor reports Russia has mounted a simple magnetic compass on its cheap Molniya attack drones, read by the onboard camera, to...
