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Key Points – Canada’s $19 billion agreement for 88 Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters is under serious reconsideration as trade and diplomatic tensions with...
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HMC Ships Moncton and Nanaimo, Canada's last two Kingston-class coastal vessels, are scheduled to be paid off in 2028. The Continental Defence Corvette intended...
An executive order issued on 13 August 2026 directs the Navy to replace the electromagnetic launch system on the fourth Ford-class carrier with steam...
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...
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...
A Mk 24 magnesium flare ignited inside USS Oriskany’s forward locker on October 26, 1966. Rocket warheads detonated, smoke swept through officers’ quarters, and...
USS Wasp carried the offensive power of a fleet carrier on the Navy’s final 14,700 treaty tons. Two Japanese torpedoes did not sink it...
The U.S. Navy built history’s strongest carrier force through experimentation, treaty compromises and expensive failures. These five ships and programs delivered the weakest return:...
Aircraft carriers are judged by the air power they put over the fleet. These five fell short in different ways: one was too slow,...
Of the 1.5 billion barrels in emergency stocks, the IEA cannot order the commercial half released, leaving governments under a billion. The American reserve...
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...
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...
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...
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 – Canada’s $19 billion agreement for 88 Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters is under serious reconsideration as trade and diplomatic tensions with...
Key Points – As President Trump’s trade wars strain U.S. alliances, Canada and European nations fear their F-35 fleets could become hostage to American...
Key Points – Canada’s troubled relationship with the F-35 fighter jet dates back to 2010, when the government planned to buy 65 stealth aircraft....
A recent article written by David Axe highlighted a Ukrainian Leopard 2A4 tank that supposedly got hit by as many as 10 Russian FPV...
Key Points – Canada’s aging CF-18 fighter jets urgently need replacement, but delays and politics have complicated acquiring new aircraft. -As a stopgap, Canada...
