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China’s A2/AD Has a Message for U.S. Carriers: DF-21D, DF-26, and the New YJ Missile Threat The great Prussian military sage Carl von Clausewitz...
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Dr. Robert Kelly, a professor of international relations at Pusan National University, argues the separation of powers in American foreign policy has nearly collapsed,...
Dr. Robert Farley argues a renewed US-Israeli air campaign against Iran awaits only the midterm elections, citing a New York Times report of personnel...
American-flagged vessels account for less than 0.3 percent of the shipping carrying U.S. trade, and the country graduates several hundred naval architects a year...
Both sides would use a Ukraine war pause to rearm, and a longer pause may mean a bloodier spring. Michael Rubin argues Kyiv should...
Putin’s proposal for a U.S.-China-Russia trilateral in China — with Ukraine and Europe excluded — has revived Beltway enthusiasm for a “Kissinger-in-reverse” bid to...
The Trump administration’s deal to allow Russian diesel into the United States blindsided Kyiv and Europe alike — halting peace talks, triggering threats to...
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...
Patrick Stewart left London theater for Star Trek: The Next Generation against Sir Ian McKellen’s advice, which McKellen has now called bad on X,...
After World War II had ended, the Essex-class carriers were upgraded to carry larger, heavier jet aircraft. These modifications included jet-blast deflectors (JBDs), greater...
The USS Gerald R. Ford has been at Norfolk Naval Shipyard since July 7, the yard’s first Ford-class job, after a 326-day deployment with...
The A-12 Avenger II, the “Flying Dorito,” was a McDonnell Douglas-General Dynamics flying wing meant to replace the A-6 Intruder from carrier decks with...
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...
For four and a half years the request was essentially a check, and the argument was that a properly supplied David could match Goliath....
Let Trump be Trump—which he will be anyway. Even if his peace efforts fail (which is entirely possible), American interests will be protected, and...
Dr. Robert Kelly argues that Donald Trump’s second term is alienating allies as no president has since 1945: refusing Saudi Arabia’s request to strike...
Signing the largest Russia sanctions package to date and then floating a diesel arrangement looks contradictory only if one assumes the two acts are...
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...
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...
China’s A2/AD Has a Message for U.S. Carriers: DF-21D, DF-26, and the New YJ Missile Threat The great Prussian military sage Carl von Clausewitz...
Boeing’s X-32 was built to win the Joint Strike Fighter contest with simplicity: fewer parts, cost-focused commonality, and a large one-piece delta wing designed...
Donald Trump’s transactional instincts could tempt him to treat Iranian regime change like Ukraine or Venezuela: help, but only for a commercial payoff. That...
China’s J-35 is emerging as the PLA’s first carrier-launched fifth-generation stealth fighter, a milestone meant to narrow America’s long-held advantage at sea with F-35B...
Army General George S. Patton is remembered for battlefield audacity, blunt talk, and an almost obsessive drive to win. Born in 1885 in California,...
