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Key Points and Summary – On January 11, 2026, the U.S. Secret Service discovered a “suspicious object” at Palm Beach International Airport during routine...
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Canada's Army modernization strategy, Inflection Point 2025, states that the Army's sole remaining armoured regiment has a single squadron of tanks that are both...
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...
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 Zumwalt class was designed around stealth, two 155mm guns and a 32-ship fleet. Cost growth cut the class to three, sending its unique...
Britain withdrew the Harrier in 2010 after 41 years in service and sold 72 airframes to the US Marine Corps as a spare-parts source....
Australia's six Collins-class boats were the first submarines the country built at home, and were troubled almost from the outset — leaking gaskets, seawater...
Nineteen former US Navy Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates are in service under foreign flags — eight in Turkey, four in Egypt, two each in...
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...
Key Points and Summary – On January 11, 2026, the U.S. Secret Service discovered a “suspicious object” at Palm Beach International Airport during routine...
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Air Force recently concluded “Exercise Sourdough,” a massive urban evasion training event held on the streets of...
Summary and Key Points – After losing the Air Force’s NGAD sixth-generation fighter contract to Boeing, Lockheed Martin is reportedly exploring a “Ferrari” upgrade...
Summary and Key Points: A newly released U.S. Air Force investigation has determined that the fatal March 2024 incident involving an F-22 Raptor at...
Summary and Key Points on the F-22 and Venezuela: On January 3, 2025, U.S. forces launched “Operation Absolute Resolve,” a massive military campaign involving...
