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Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Editor’s Note: This is another part of a multi-part series looking at the new B-21 Raider stealth bomber by renowned expert Philip Handleman. You...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Following a joint announcement on Monday by leaders of Australia, the United Kingdom, and United States, the White House released a roadmap devised over...

Politics

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis recently told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the US should avoid deeper involvement in the Ukraine War. It...

Defense Feed

The invasion of Iraq in March 2003 was justified by its proponents as a preventive war to shield the United States from a dangerous...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

This week I returned to the mothership for the first time in a dozen years, to take part in a conference at Vanderbilt University...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

Of late there’s been a lively discussion in the halls of U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I. (where I serve as the  J....

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

Russia’s year-long onslaught against Ukraine proves, yet again, that the fundamental nature of war never changes even though no war is precisely like another....

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

The Gods of the Copybook Headings smiled beatifically on the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps last week. For poet Rudyard Kipling the simple headings...

Smart Bombs

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

A quick look at available renderings of China’s emerging H-20 bomber reveals a striking, if not surprising, resemblance to the US B-2 Spirit bomber with its...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

A new video clip shared on social media on Tuesday provided a rare view of the ruined city of Bakhmut, which has been besieged...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Fallen Russian Drones Offer Insight Into Russian Equipment Use – Images of crashed Russian drones shared on social media this week offers an interesting look...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Russian T-72B Obliterated By Anti-Tank Grenade – Incredible video footage shared by the Ground forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook shows...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

By bailing out all depositors—even those who had more than the already insured $250,000 in the banks in question—the federal government has just nationalized...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Banks in centuries past were often formidable buildings, with large columns in the front and big, stout doors. There was a reason for this:...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Following talks with United Nations officials, Russia announced this week that the Black Sea Initiative – a grain export deal brokered by the UN...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Donald Trump – Blame Him for Silicon Valley Bank Downfall? In the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, the blame game has begun...

The Embassy

The Embassy

Bakhmut has become the little town that could. Once considered strategically irrelevant, it has become the epicenter for the war in Ukraine as both...

The Embassy

Video footage shared on the Ukrainian Telegram channel Karymat and later re-uploaded to Twitter offers a brief look into the training that Ukrainian soldiers...

The Embassy

Last month, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that devastated areas in Turkey reached across the border into northern Syria. For a country largely destroyed by civil...

The Embassy

ICC Prepares to Issue Arrest Warrants Over Russian War Crimes – The International Criminal Court (ICC) is reportedly preparing to open two war crime...

Coronavirus

Coronavirus Chaos

China’s dramatic shift from draconian restrictions to relaxed COVID-19 rules is likely to cause more economic disruptions than benefits. The poorly performing economy will...

Coronavirus Chaos

This was the year the word “tripledemic” entered the lexicon. That’s the term for the three different types of illnesses, COVID-19, flu, and RSV,...

Coronavirus Chaos

Perhaps as many as 90% of China’s 1.41 billion people will come down with COVID-19, said Feng Zijian, former deputy chief of China’s Center...

Coronavirus Chaos

A new virus has emerged in China and infected around 35 people, sparking concern that a new pandemic could be on the way. Scientists...

Politics News

Politics

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has not formally declared his 2024 presidential candidacy yet – but that’s not preventing the opposition, namely former President Donald Trump, from preparing....

Politics

Is Gretchen Whitmer the Worst Governor In the Country? Well, one thing you could say about Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is that she often smiles,...

Politics

Another Trump criminal investigation?: The Guardian reported this week on the existence of yet another Trump-related criminal investigation, this time involving the former president’s...

Politics

Has Gavin Newsom Ruined California? He’s a popular governor, at least for people who decide to live in California. Gavin Newsom’s approval rating stands at...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

In recent days it has been reported in the Chosun Ilbo (one of South Korea’s most widely read daily newspapers) that if North Korea...

Hermit Kingdom

North Korea’s Kim Yo-jong is at it again, making extreme threats. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Indo-Pacific commander, Adm. John Aquilino, reportedly said that...

Hermit Kingdom

On Thursday morning, North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the Yellow Sea just days after Kim Yo Jong, sister of leader Kim...

Hermit Kingdom

On March 6, Seoul announced a new plan for resolving the lingering dispute with Japan over compensation for South Koreans forced to labor for...

Politics

Former Representative Liz Cheney is back in the news, filling the niche she has carved out for herself – that is, criticizing fellow conservatives. Cheney, who...