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The launch of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 2026, has triggered a seismic shift in the American political landscape. Unlike the clear mandates...
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Nine months after Riyadh gutted Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council, the Houthis took the port of Mokha on the Bab el-Mandeb, then struck King Khalid...
President Trump says he gets along with Kim Jong Un and wants a new summit before the end of 2026, along with smaller US-South...
Germany hadn’t spent 1.5 percent of GDP on defense since 1996. Then came the Zeitenwende: €100 billion for the Bundeswehr and a 4,800-strong brigade...
A former US Navy ASW operator says the Kilo-class ‘black hole’ hype was a joke. Quiet only at 3 knots, it has to snorkel...
Sabotage at Leipzig, Swindon, and Skarżysko-Kamienna. A curfew across the river from Narva. New garrisons at Petrozavodsk, Lupche-Savino, and Pechenga pointing at Finland's 830-mile...
The Witkoff-Kushner shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv ended, predictably, without a breakthrough — and Andrew Michta argues the failure reveals something deeper than bad...
German Foreign Minister Wadephul's fourth Kyiv visit — two days before Ukraine's Independence Day — capped an accelerating shift: Berlin is becoming Ukraine's principal...
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...
Talk of reviving the SR-71 Blackbird, still the fastest air-breathing aircraft ever at an official Mach 3.32 and an unofficial 3.56, has grown into...
China already has a Navy bigger than America. And shipyard capacity is the reason why.
The lead boat, USS District of Columbia submarine, was laid down in June 2022 and is roughly 65 percent complete against a 2028 delivery....
NASA’s X-43A, a 12-foot unmanned lifting body with a hydrogen scramjet and no moving parts, flew three times: the first was blown up in...
Four ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz Thursday against a 10-day average of 16. Iran said it hit tanker Trend on Friday. Brent is...
Jobs dropped out of Reed College and stayed on as what he called a "drop-in," sitting in on classes that interested him. One was...
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has,...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has unveiled Operation Economic Outcast: secondary sanctions across five sectors and more than sixty targets, with no relief attached. Iran's...
The rial has hit 2.5 million to the dollar, inflation is projected near 69 percent, and Iranian oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz...
Twenty-five years on, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the US mistook quiet for peace. A RAND strategist argues it is doing...
The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies have all warned of an escalating Russian gray...
Surely there is reluctance among a part of the Russian population – especially those living in major cities – to see their sons dragged...
Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...
American doctrine promises that any North Korean nuclear attack will end the Kim regime. The Iran war has just tested that assumption. The United...
Trump ordered Ulchi Freedom Shield cut from eleven days to five before Kim Jong-un had agreed to anything in return. Kim Yo-jong dismissed the...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
The launch of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 2026, has triggered a seismic shift in the American political landscape. Unlike the clear mandates...
The legacy of General George S. Patton Jr. in North Africa remains the gold standard for rapid organizational transformation under fire. Military historians and...
The Dassault Mirage 2000-5 has transitioned from a high-profile donation to a surgical "air node" within the Ukrainian Air Force. While only a handful...
The sinking of the Iranian frigate Dena on March 4, 2026, represents a watershed moment in naval history. By deploying a single Mark 48...
As of March 4, 2026, the "de facto" closure of the Strait of Hormuz has entered a critical tactical phase. While the Islamic Republic...
