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Is the Era of Large Naval Warships Over? At an ASPI conference a few years ago, I remarked that I thought that major surface combatants...
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Don’t look now, but we may be about to see a Russian version of Desert Storm in Ukraine. Allow me to explain Russia’s potential...
War threatens in Europe. With international talks stalled and Russian diplomats pessimistic, Moscow reinforced its troop presence near Ukraine’s borders to 106,000. And reinforcements are...
A Russian Invasion of Ukraine Might Resemble Its War with Georgia: The likelihood of a Russian invasion of Ukraine grows more concrete on a...
2017 was the year of “fire and fury” in American policy toward North Korea. Pyongyang tested its first ICBM on July 4th, and its...
Earlier this month War on the Rocks carried an interview with General David Berger, commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. The interview was mostly...
Warship design is a political process as much as an engineering challenge. Never was that more true than during the interwar decades, the heyday...
A Chilean friend asks whether the craze for building “icebreakers or polar ships” will continue and whether it’s coming to the Antarctic. My rambling...
David Berger wants to give Xi Jinping an ulcer. Early this month the U.S. Marine Corps commandant signed out the “Concept for Stand-in Forces,”...
Smith & Wesson M&P 9: The Gun the US Military Passed On – Smith & Wesson had the star-studded brand and history to make it...
With tensions between Russia and the West ready to explode, the British Foreign Officer, using highly classified intelligence, has accused Moscow and President Vladimir Putin of...
Glock 19X Could Not Make It Over the Finish Line: Sometimes second place is just not good enough. The Glock 19X almost won the...
The looming conflict between Russia and Ukraine has begun to dominate the world’s attention, to say nothing of the community of analysts who follow...
The Great Ammo Shortage: Factories Working Around the Clock: Vista Outdoor, which is the largest ammunition provider in America, is working 24/7 to supply...
According to an old saying, success has a hundred fathers but failure is an orphan. This certainly seems to be the case with the...
Do Government Acts Encourage More Gun Sales?: Sometimes political and governmental actions influence the number of gun sales. Last year, there was almost a...
Could We Get Another Stimulus Check?: Who doesn’t like free money with no strings attached? I’m talking about federal government stimulus checks. It’s a...
US Navy Detains Stateless Ship Carrying Explosive Material to Yemen – The U.S. and U.K. Royal Navies, working together to cease the flow of...
Give President Joe Biden credit for talking with Vladimir Putin over the latter’s demands for security guarantees. Yet the way forward appears blocked by...
The situation in Ukraine remains tense as the U.S. is rallying NATO allies and friends while warning Moscow that an invasion would bring a...
For a half-century, Iraq has been among the world’s most difficult places to be a journalist. Saddam Hussein tolerated no independent journalism; to be...
The people of Taiwan have been living in a parallel world since June 2020, with the island recording more than 250 consecutive days without any domestic...
As Cato has long pointed out, the law takes a paradoxical stance toward so‐called “off‐label” use of drugs approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration...
There’s clearly an open divide in the United States between those who are vaccinated and those who are not. But among those who are,...
Over the past year, most Americans already have received three stimulus checks in total—with the latest payments amounting to more than $400 billion approved...
No matter how the White House tries to spin President Joe Biden’s sprawling press conference, their blatant next-day clean-up attempts tell the tale: there’s...
Freshmen Democrat Sens. Jon Ossoff and Mark Kelly don’t seem a drain-the-swamp type nor mavericks ready to buck the party bosses. But they introduced...
Members of Washington, D.C.’s unofficial but bipartisan War Party thrive on bad news. Vladimir Putin is marching on Ukraine. Xi Jinping is reviving the...
In the aftermath of last year’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, I wrote in these pages that, “unless decisive action is taken – quickly...
What is North Korea Thinking?: This year is shaping up to be a very active one for North Korea’s missile program. Kim Jong Un’s...
Why We Should Take North Korea’s Latest Threat Seriously: In October 2021, standing beside his new, untested Hwasong-17 intercontinental-range ballistic missile at a defense...
America’s Poor Choices if North Korean Resumes Nuke and ICBM Testing: Perhaps it was inevitable. Negotiating with North Korea has proven so futile for...
North Korea has kicked off 2022 with a flurry of missile launches. While analysts were tempted to zero in on Kim Jong Un‘s agriculture...
Is the Era of Large Naval Warships Over? At an ASPI conference a few years ago, I remarked that I thought that major surface combatants...
Amid Pandemic Labor Shortage, the Army Increases Bonuses to $50,000: The military, specifically the US Army has seen what the job outlook is appearing...
“Massive Cyberattack”, Briefly Cripples Ukraine Government Websites: Ukraine was hit by a massive cyberattack on several government websites on late Thursday and into early...
Glock Is the Go-to Weapon for Numerous Armies: Glock has become one of the most popular handgun makers that have been taken up by...
5 Best Guns for Police Departments: Sixty-two police officers died from gunfire while on duty in 2021. That averages out to one death every...
