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Editor’s Note: This is part two of a two-part series on what a U.S.-China war over Taiwan could look like. You can read part...
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The Biden administration is working out more ways to hurt Russia, with an eye towards deterring an invasion of Ukraine. If that fails, the...
Years from now, when scholars look back at Russia’s contemporary descent into authoritarianism, they are liable to point to 2021 as the year the...
Ukraine is about Putin’s Post-Imperial Hangover, not NATO, Biden’s ‘Weakness,’ and So On: A Russian invasion of Ukraine would be a disaster for Russia....
Don’t look now, but we may be about to see a Russian version of Desert Storm in Ukraine. Allow me to explain Russia’s potential...
Earlier this month War on the Rocks carried an interview with General David Berger, commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. The interview was mostly...
Warship design is a political process as much as an engineering challenge. Never was that more true than during the interwar decades, the heyday...
A Chilean friend asks whether the craze for building “icebreakers or polar ships” will continue and whether it’s coming to the Antarctic. My rambling...
David Berger wants to give Xi Jinping an ulcer. Early this month the U.S. Marine Corps commandant signed out the “Concept for Stand-in Forces,”...
We’re Focused on Ukraine But Look Out For the Russian Threat to the Baltics: It was a shot heard around the world in the...
The vaunted Russian special forces ops group Spetsnaz have disrupted Ukraine once during Moscow’s operation in Crimea in 2014. Now the Spetsnaz are reportedly...
What Is the Russian Navy Doing? That Russia would want to send its navy and air force into Western European waters is not a...
Right at this moment, an American nuclear aircraft carrier of more than 105,000 tons is sailing the waters of the Indo-Pacific. At its helm...
How the Extended Child Tax Credit Could Make a Comeback: In January, the Biden administration’s one-year expansion of the child tax credit (CTC) program expired...
Social media is awash with talk of a fourth stimulus check, but it remains to be seen whether there is any substance to the...
On Monday, the S&P 500 and other major stock indexes appeared to enter correction territory after days of substantial decreases in value. The stock...
From Alaska to Australia: Shooters Feeling Pain of Ammo Shortage: 1945 has extensively covered ammunition shortages in the United States but now the problem...
Thomas Sowell warned that it is folly to confer decision-making authority on politicians who pay no price for being wrong. President Joe Biden, his...
Ukraine’s Best, Last Hope to Avoid War with Russia: Stone Cold Realism in the White House: Roughly 127,000 Russian combat troops are deployed on...
UK Accuses Russia of Trying to Install a Puppet Leader in Ukraine: The United Kingdom has accused the Kremlin of seeking to install a...
US Navy Detains Stateless Ship Carrying Explosive Material to Yemen – The U.S. and U.K. Royal Navies, working together to cease the flow of...
The people of Taiwan have been living in a parallel world since June 2020, with the island recording more than 250 consecutive days without any domestic...
As Cato has long pointed out, the law takes a paradoxical stance toward so‐called “off‐label” use of drugs approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration...
There’s clearly an open divide in the United States between those who are vaccinated and those who are not. But among those who are,...
Over the past year, most Americans already have received three stimulus checks in total—with the latest payments amounting to more than $400 billion approved...
US Troops On Alert For Eastern Europe, Balkans As Ukraine Tensions Grow: With tensions in Ukraine heightening due to fears of a Russian invasion,...
An especially egregious sin that a foreign policy team can commit is to send inconsistent signals to a potential adversary about a prominent issue....
President Joe Biden became agitated during his marathon press conference last week when asked about his remarks from an earlier speech comparing political opponents...
Joe Biden’s Russia Gaffes and Disastrous Policies Threaten America’s Security: During his long, rambling Jan. 19 press conference, President Joe Biden made yet another...
North Korea conducted a spate of missile launches testing various systems five times in 2022, so far. Kim Jong-un knows how to stir up...
North Korea Warns of Resuming Nuclear and ICBM Tests: Last week, Pyongyang implicitly threatened to resume highly provocative nuclear and ICBM tests while warning...
What is North Korea Thinking?: This year is shaping up to be a very active one for North Korea’s missile program. Kim Jong Un’s...
Why We Should Take North Korea’s Latest Threat Seriously: In October 2021, standing beside his new, untested Hwasong-17 intercontinental-range ballistic missile at a defense...
Editor’s Note: This is part two of a two-part series on what a U.S.-China war over Taiwan could look like. You can read part...
Monetary policy can only do so much: it cannot permanently increase the wealth of a nation. That is the lesson from economic history. In...
Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part series detailing a U.S.-China war over Taiwan. You can read part two here. There are...
The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, or CPTPP, for short, is the new kid on the block–at least when trade is concerned....
Last week, eight Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives joined nearly every Democrat in supporting legislation that was aimed at strengthening background checks...
