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Summary and Key Points: Top U.S. military commanders express urgent concern over rapidly expanding Russian and Chinese military-industrial capabilities. Russia, despite heavy losses in...
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The U.S. Can Destroy Targets in Iran All Day — It Can’t Control the Strait of Hormuz Is America getting ready to quit the...
The F-47 NGAD Stealth Fighter Might Not Be Built In the Numbers Needed The debate over the F-47 keeps getting stuck on the wrong...
The Iran War Is Now All About Who Controls the Strait of Hormuz Clausewitz understood that wars have a way of outgrowing the aims...
The British War in Iran That Trump Now May Be Replicating President Donald Trump continues the war in Iran as the Islamic Republic responds...
Strategic expert Andrew A. Michta explores how Russia is capitalizing on the Iran War to consolidate gains in Europe. With U.S. resources drained and...
Key Points and Summary – The recent NATO summit in The Hague, where European allies agreed to a new 5% of GDP defense spending...
The Trump administration made the Russia-Ukraine ceasefire its priority foreign policy initiative shortly after the inauguration. Setting aside Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric that he...
The strain in US-European relations under the second Trump administration stems primarily from a deepening ideological divide, not just policy disputes over trade or...
Invading Kharg Island Could Transform the Iran War Into a Possible Disaster for America U.S. President Donald Trump has publicly floated the possibility of...
The SR-71 Blackbird Was a Legend But Even Legends Can Suffer Mechanical Failures The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane (AKA the “Habu”) remains the...
11 U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers on Paper, 8 ‘Available’ in Reality In March 2026, the USS Gerald R. Ford arrived in Split, Croatia, for...
China’s Navy Has Quite Few Aircraft Carriers: But It Needs To Sustain Them and Protect Them China’s PLA Navy (PLAN) has operated three aircraft...
The Iran War Is Now Becoming a Strait of Hormuz Showdown The war in Iran began just over a month ago, when the United...
The U.S. Air Force probably wouldn’t land on anyone’s list as a top-paying employer. However, learning a valuable skill in the Air Force—especially one...
The U.S. Navy Built 24 Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers. It Can’t Pull That Off Again The U.S. was able to build twenty-four Essex-class aircraft carriers...
From Chernobyl’s Reactor to DARPA’s Lab to the International Space Station: How a Fungus Became a Pentagon Priority Nearly 40 years ago, in April...
The Strait of Hormuz Energy Hostage Crisis Explained On March 31, Donald Trump said the war with Iran could end in “two weeks, maybe...
The War Between Russia and Ukraine Has Been a Disaster For Putin. But He Won’t Stop Now The Russia-Ukraine War is now entering its...
Why the Eurofighter Typhoon Is Still Selling in the Age of Stealth The Eurofighter Typhoon first entered service in the early 2000s, the product of a...
If Given a Decade, Could Iran Rearm and Rebuild its Military? What Will Beijing Do? U.S. and Israeli strikes have reportedly seriously degraded the...
Fake Russian IDs, Orders Never to Be Captured, and 50% Casualties: Inside North Korea’s Secret War in Ukraine The Russian Army has sustained nearly...
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Bruce E. Bechtol Jr., a political science professor and proliferation expert, evaluates the strategic partnership between Iran and North...
Summary and Key Points: Reuben F. Johnson, a veteran defense technology analyst and Casimir Pulaski Foundation fellow, scrutinizes the Ninth Congress of the Workers’...
Korea’s Division Isn’t a Glitch Anymore. It’s a Feature of the New Order The division of Korea was always understood to be temporary. In...
Summary and Key Points: Top U.S. military commanders express urgent concern over rapidly expanding Russian and Chinese military-industrial capabilities. Russia, despite heavy losses in...
Summary and Key Points: Speculation is growing that Russia might export its Su-57 stealth fighter jet, particularly after a recent refueling stop in Iran,...
Summary and Key Points: The F-14 Tomcat, famed for its role in “Top Gun,” was renowned for its speed, agility, and unique two-seat configuration,...
What makes this moment especially dangerous is that Donald Trump is not alone. He is enabled by a political movement that no longer even...
You have to give every designer, engineer, and tester on the MBT-70 super tank project a medal for at least trying to execute this...
