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President of the United States Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a "Make America Great Again" campaign rally at Phoenix Goodyear Airport in Goodyear, Arizona. By Gage Skidmore. President of the United States Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a "Make America Great Again" campaign rally at Phoenix Goodyear Airport in Goodyear, Arizona. By Gage Skidmore.

The Embassy

The maximalists wanted regime change, the minimalists wanted nothing, and the doubters see only waffling. Carafano's answer: the victor gets to define victory —...

The Embassy

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...

The Embassy

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...

The Embassy

On July 20, a China Coast Guard team in a small boat closed on Philippine sailors near Second Thomas Shoal and repeatedly struck one...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

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...

Aerospace & Defense

Aerospace & Defense

After the F-111 flew 154 low-level sorties during Linebacker II in 1972, North Vietnamese forces gave it a name: "Whispering Death." At home the...

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy intended to build 29 Seawolf-class submarines over ten years. Budget pressure cut that to 12, and the end of the Cold...

Aerospace & Defense

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...

Aerospace & Defense

Most people associate Apollo exclusively with the Moon, which makes sense, given that Apollo only ever went there. But after the lunar landing, NASA...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

No vessel entered any of the three Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on Wednesday, the first such day since the grain corridor opened...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Oil futures are signaling that traders expect prices to fall over the coming months, despite the war and the disruption around Hormuz. The bet...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

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...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Two tankers loaded with Saudi crude reversed course in the Red Sea — without being fired on — after the Houthis threatened any ship...

The Embassy

The Embassy

Ukraine on Tuesday executed a series of drone strikes on an industrial zone near Moscow, and across the whole country, strikes on three warehouses...

The Embassy

A cruise missile came down about 90 kilometers inside Poland and hurt no one. That incident will be logged and forgotten. The question underneath...

The Embassy

Getting to Somaliland used to be simple. Then Somaliland refused more than a quarter of a billion dollars to drop Taiwan, and the routes...

The Embassy

Zelensky met Raytheon executives in Kyiv, saying Ukraine is moving to co-produce Patriot missiles under plans he discussed with Trump — though waiting lists...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

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...

Hermit Kingdom

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...

Hermit Kingdom

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...

Hermit Kingdom

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...

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Tehran treats the Strait of Hormuz as non-negotiable, Holmes writes, and no air campaign eliminates every missile. That leaves four courses: walk away and...

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