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AOC for President?: Following the slow-motion collapse of Joe Biden’s presidency, and the election loss of Kamala Harris in 2024, the Democratic Party is...
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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...
SSN(X) is the Navy’s planned successor to the Virginia-class attack submarine. The service wants Seawolf speed and payload, Virginia quieting, and Columbia-class availability. First...
The Akula-class attack submarine was the Soviet Union’s steel answer to the Los Angeles class. About 15 boats were finished before the money ran...
The US Navy Cut Seawolf From 29 Boats to Three. The Attack-Submarine Gap Never Closed: The Seawolf-class attack submarine was designed to replace the...
USS Gerald R. Ford spent 326 days deployed, fought in two major operations, suffered a serious fire and now faces months or even a...
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...
AOC for President?: Following the slow-motion collapse of Joe Biden’s presidency, and the election loss of Kamala Harris in 2024, the Democratic Party is...
The Ukraine war reveals how inexpensive drones transform modern warfare, highlighting vulnerabilities for major military assets, including U.S. Navy ships.
Can Lasers Be Used To Intercept Hypersonic Weapons? In the past three decades, significant advancements have been made in intercepting and destroying incoming ballistic...
The UN Human Rights Council is expected to renew Francesca Albanese's controversial role as special rapporteur for Palestinian territories, despite her documented anti-Israel bias....
Donald Trump announced his plan for widespread tariffs on April 2, on what he called “Liberation Day.” The reaction, at least thus far, has...
