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Quote of the Day: Thanks to General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower Synopsis: Dwight D. Eisenhower’s warning that the next world war must be...
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In April 1997, President Roman Herzog told Germany it needed a Ruck — a jolt — to break out of national lethargy and undertake...
The Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative emerged from US Army Europe and Africa and NATO's Allied Land Command as a concept for restoring deterrence by...
Dr. Michael Rubin argues that Israel's targeted killing campaign against Palestinian militants a quarter of a century ago ultimately produced two decades of relative...
More economic pressure by itself is unlikely to break Iranian resistance, because whether Iran can be made to fold turns less on how much...
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...
The US Air Force XB-70 bomber cost up to $2 billion, reached Mach 3.08 and was built for a 50,000-pound payload before missiles erased...
Iran's T-72S tanks reportedly come with the Rakhsh modernization package, which includes features such as a variant of Kontakt-5 explosive reactive armor (ERA) based...
F-22 Raptors and MC-130J Commando IIs practiced hot-pit refueling at Kadena Air Base in Japan, transferring fuel from the tanker to a fighter with...
The US Army recognized that while they could produce an excellent SEPv4 today, the platform would have limited upside against further -evolved threats. Basically,...
The Houthis have no warships. It doesn't need any. A blockade holds if shipowners and insurers decide the passage is not worth the risk,...
Washington redirected 55 commercial vessels away from Iranian ports as of Sunday, up from 35 a week earlier, while the Kpler intelligence firm counted...
Supply boats bring food and water. Wages arrive late or not at all. A union leader likens it to imprisonment, and one Indian sailor...
No vessel entered any of the three Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on Wednesday, the first such day since the grain corridor opened...
Since Khamenei took over in March, Iran's Supreme National Security Council has had three secretaries. Ali Larijani was killed in an airstrike a few...
Iran's strategy is to drag the war out. James Jay Carafano argues that protraction is the only card the IRGC holds, and that Trump...
Trump calls the strait "sort of open." Iran calls the arrangement "a new and different model." Last June, vague wording in a similar deal...
The war began on 28 February with little public explanation. The administration did not make a full case to Congress or to the country,...
Iran's Shahab-1 came from the Scud-B and reached 300km. The Khorramshahr, derived from North Korea's Musudan, reaches 2,000km — a 6.7-fold increase in reach.
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...
Quote of the Day: Thanks to General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower Synopsis: Dwight D. Eisenhower’s warning that the next world war must be...
Synopsis and Key Points: China’s DF-27 is presented as an operational, conventionally armed intercontinental-range missile with an anti-ship variant designed to threaten U.S. aircraft...
Summary and Key Points – A favorite line attributed to Benjamin Franklin—“He That Waits Upon Fortune Is Never Sure of a Dinner”—captures his worldview...
Summary and Key Points: The F-117 Nighthawk introduced operational stealth by pairing a faceted shape with radar-absorbent materials, internal weapon bays, and infrared/laser targeting...
Summary and Key Points – The F-15EX Eagle II is positioned as a long-serving, high-performance fighter that can bridge the gap into the 2040s...
