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Gen. David Berger's reasoning was blunt: buy cheap, numerous systems instead of a few exquisite ones, and stop preparing for the grinding land wars...
The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies have all warned of an escalating Russian gray...
Twenty-nine years ago today, on September 25, 1997, Sukhoi's Su-47 Berkut made its first flight with wings swept forward instead of back. Carbon composites...
Iran mostly didn't go after U.S. aircraft carriers or fighter jets. It went after the bases. Iranian missiles and drones broke through U.S. air...
The Witkoff-Kushner shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv ended, predictably, without a breakthrough — and Andrew Michta argues the failure reveals something deeper than bad...
German Foreign Minister Wadephul's fourth Kyiv visit — two days before Ukraine's Independence Day — capped an accelerating shift: Berlin is becoming Ukraine's principal...
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...
Ocean Venture '81 ran from August 1 into October with ships and aircraft from 14 countries. In one phase, a force built around USS...
Long Beach was built to escort the Navy's new nuclear carriers, which conventional escorts couldn't keep pace with on long deployments. Two C1W reactors...
The USS Gerald R. Ford was the first carrier in the world with electromagnetic catapults, advanced arresting gear, and magnetic weapons elevators, and it...
Conventional Prompt Strike is a conventionally armed boost-glide hypersonic weapon built to hit heavily defended, high-value, or fleeting targets fast. It shares its Common...
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...
Surely there is reluctance among a part of the Russian population – especially those living in major cities – to see their sons dragged...
Volodymyr Zelenskiy is set to meet with US President Donald Trump and discuss current and possible new initiatives aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
Almost all of the names are in their late forties to mid-fifties, and that is the point. Putin's own generation — men like FSB...
The Duma is a rubber-stamp parliament and United Russia is not going to lose it. The election still matters to Putin, for two reasons...
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...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
The TF30 wanted smooth, straight airflow, which it got on the F-111 but not on a fighter pulling hard turns at high angles of...
Cmdr. Paul Rinn's frigate was escorting reflagged Kuwaiti tankers when a lookout spotted mines in the water, and Rinn began backing out of the...
The 6.8x51mm runs above 80,000 psi at close to 3,000 feet per second, and it exists because adversaries now issue body armor as standard....
The YF-23's diamond wing, V-tails, S-duct intakes, and flat exhausts made it stealthier, and in testing it posted a higher top speed, faster supercruise,...
Hydrogen fuel cells run cooler and quieter than a diesel, shrinking the K3's infrared and acoustic signature, while radar-absorbent materials and low, angled armor...
