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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev appears to relish embarrassing the State Department. Just weeks after the now-voided ceasefire, Aliyev castigated on live television Andrew Schofer, at the...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

While the U.S. has allies that have tanks and fighters it can always depend on; it stands alone against these near-peer adversaries when it...

Hermit Kingdom

North Korea has provided support in the civil wars in Ethiopia, Angola, Sri Lanka, and Yemen. Though the number of troops was small, North...

The Embassy

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin affirmed their strong ties during initial talks that hinted Russia will provide military...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

If successful, in short, the B-21 will present U.S. and allied commanders the opportunity to exploit command of the air before winning it.

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks set defense commentators aflutter last month when she announced “Replicator,” an initiative meant to field “small, smart, cheap” uncrewed,...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

Endorsed! This month over at the Naval Institute Proceedings, coastguardsman Steve Hulse urges the U.S. Navy to procure a flotilla of Sentinel-class fast response cutters...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

The odds still favor Russia, both by Moltkean logic and by virtue of Russia’s massive demographic, economic, and military preponderance over Ukraine. But combatants...

Smart Bombs

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

The United Arab Emirates may be next in line to join South Korea’s KAI KF-21 Boramae fighter jet program. According to state news outlets...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

As Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi spoke at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Russia’s Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu arrived in the Islamic...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

In the annals of U.S. military aviation, a fair number of fighter planes’ monikers have been passed from one generation to the next. You...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Ukraine has liberated two important villages in the east of the country, near the destroyed town of Bakhmut.

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Even though there’s no way the president can set gas prices, presidential candidate Ron DeSantis’ energy plan has been released, including a promise of...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

After some alarming new numbers about rising child poverty, some are wishing for the return of a temporary policy from early on in the...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Donald Trump describes the idea of a tariff on essentially all imports to the U.S. as a “ring around the U.S. economy,” but such...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

In 2019, I met with a group affiliated with the United States Trade Representative and a handful of elected officials who were the loudest...

The Embassy

The Embassy

Armenia is flipping. In 1920, 1999, and 2020, Washington was asleep at the switch. It must not make the same mistake four times.

The Embassy

The rhetoric from prominent Republican candidates over the Russian invasion of Ukraine is frightening to say the least.

The Embassy

Ukraine’s survival despite centuries of overlapping rule and subjugation from multiple neighboring empires – Russian, Polish-Lithuanian and later Austro-Hungarian – is a testimony to...

The Embassy

Just as Russia’s erstwhile strongman Vladimir Putin met with North Korea’s great leader with cup in hand, the Levada Center, a respectable Moscow-based polling...

Coronavirus

Coronavirus Chaos

Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, does not believe that federal mask mandates will return even...

Coronavirus Chaos

There has been just enough distance and peace from COVID-19 restrictions and paranoia to let the horrible memories of those terrible two years fade...

Coronavirus Chaos

Kirillov didn't just suggest that the United States was responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic but also claimed that the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and...

Coronavirus Chaos

For much of this year, it looked like the COVID-19 pandemic was finally over. But in recent weeks, there have been signs of a...

Politics News

Politics

Talk about gimmicks – former president Donald Trump seems to be making an effort to paint himself as a moderate on the controversial issue...

Politics

There have been calls for months for the Democrats to replace Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate in 2024. The Vice President is...

Politics

Why Does Joe Biden Have to Lie? Fact checks on a politician’s claims are nothing new. At the end of his presidency, the Washington...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

A vague North Korean-Russia alignment adds a new headache to East Asian security. But without China, it is still underpowered.

Hermit Kingdom

The Biden team believes it can shame North Korea into being a responsible actor. But Kim cares not about international prestige but about survival,...

Hermit Kingdom

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will reportedly travel to Vladivostok this month to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. The pair appears to be...

Hermit Kingdom

The North Korean navy has grown even more dangerous over the last few years, creating more problems for the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific region.