The emergence of the AbramsX, and the many innovations being weaved into the platform, is redefining the role of the Abrams tank and heavy armor in U.S. combat operations. | Continue reading
Today, Russian military doctrine reflects the traditional concepts of non-linear warfare and deep operation. | Continue reading
Approaching conflict as a societal clash can marginalize developments on the traditional military front. | Continue reading
The U.S.-made FGM-148 Javelin is one of the premier portable anti-tank missile systems in the world. | Continue reading
The Admiral Kuznetsov has had a tortured history, including major accidents in 2018 and 2019 in port that resulted in fatalities. | Continue reading
The Patriot’s computer and human minders don’t always get it right. On March 23, a Patriot battery shot down a Royal Air Force Tornado fighter-bomber returning to Kuwait after a mission over Iraq. The two crew died. | Continue reading
U.S. history has overlooked it. | Continue reading
Why is China’s market share and quality so low? Its rivals have most of the latest technology. China does not. | Continue reading
Testimony from officials in the State Department and Defense Department this week included subtle but important shifts in the U.S. policy toward Taiwan. | Continue reading
The practice is more common than you might expect. | Continue reading
The democracy summit demonstrates that Washington’s alleged commitment to freedom and democratic values as a key feature of U.S. foreign policy is as inconsistent and hypocritical as ever. | Continue reading
And they aren't being too subtle about it. | Continue reading
The Ah-56 Cheyenne, B-70 Valkyrie, A-12 Avenger, Future Combat Systems, & Sea Control Ships | Continue reading
The upcoming American-led online Summit for Democracy will stoke ideological confrontation. Faced with an array of global challenges, countries urgently need to strengthen coordination and cooperation for common progress. | Continue reading
How many mistakes are forgivable, when they take the lives of people who never asked for us to come and reshape their country and their culture in first place? | Continue reading
These days, it appears that anyone with reliable internet access can tap into commercial radar satellites to do their own version of airbase monitoring. | Continue reading
The Donbass conflict has hovered for the past five years around a kind of uneasy equilibrium. | Continue reading
Just saber-rattling or a real threat? | Continue reading
The United States and its NATO allies are busily arming Ukraine and engaging in other actions that encourage the leaders in Kiev to believe that they have strong Western backing in their confrontation with Russia and Russian-backed separatists. | Continue reading
Before Blackwater there was Bob Denard. | Continue reading
What could be more worrisome for the United States is that Russia’s efforts are also being supported by high-tech cooperation with China. | Continue reading
Advocates of a strong state in Europe and the United States want the public to believe China’s economic success confirms that economic growth is inextricably linked with a strong state. Weiying Zhang’s analysis proves that the opposite is true | Continue reading
The era of U.S. military primacy is over. | Continue reading
In hindsight, there are numerous reasons why the U.S. Navy did not follow the Soviet shipbuilding industry down the path of titanium hulls. | Continue reading
U.S. concerns about the risks of fighting a coming war with Russia and China are well-grounded, given it is unprepared to fight even a purely conventional war with them. | Continue reading
Did the Navy ever actually pursue the Rock-Site concept at Point Sur or elsewhere? A 1971 study discussed various methods of sea-floor excavation, but by then most man-in-the-sea development was classified. | Continue reading
Advancing the collapse of the Islamic Republic will not bog the United States down into another Middle Eastern war or cost further blood and treasure. It can be done by maintaining sanctions on the Islamic Republic and its officials and by beginning a policy of maximum support of … | Continue reading
If true, the report links U.S. troops to Taiwan during a period of sustained escalation of tensions between Taiwan and China, which claims the island as one of its provinces, despite Taiwan’s functioning as a de facto independent state. | Continue reading
The Syrian uprising was born in Daraa, and it would be poetic justice after all the loss if it is there that the Assad regime goes away for good. | Continue reading
France and Britian's most powerful warships avoided what could have been a total disaster. | Continue reading
An AIP submarine’s engines are virtually silent. | Continue reading
The Nimitz-class carriers are scheduled to remain in service for fifty years, until the mid-2020s. However, they may last longer than that, simply because there is no clear need to replace them - they are unquestionably the world's most powerful ships. | Continue reading
Belarusian state propaganda is nothing new, but it becomes a vital tool as the government tries to reassert control over a population teetering on open revolt against their violent ruler. | Continue reading
South Korea’s unique experience combining a Western-style democracy and the Asian value of communitarianism could become a very powerful source of South Korea’s success as a new model for dealing with global challenges. | Continue reading
Afghans stand out among the refugees committing crimes in Austria and elsewhere. Why? | Continue reading
Of all the Kremlin’s latest weapons projects, the S-500 is among Russia’s most direct and potent answers to U.S. fifth-generation stealth fighter jets like Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II and F-22 Raptor. | Continue reading
Xi Jinping has pledged to invest $1.4 trillion through 2025 in key technologies including semiconductors. Of course, another way of leveling the playing field would be to invade Taiwan. | Continue reading
The time has come to stop the use of Bitcoin as a pirate currency before it spreads further into not only the U.S. economy but into the entire global financial system. | Continue reading
If the China continues growing rapidly, the US will once again face a potential peer competitor, and great-power politics will return in full force. | Continue reading
The aircraft mounted a huge Gatling cannon that threatened to shake the armored warplane apart. | Continue reading
The zeal the United States and USSR had to outperform one another in the Space Race was beneficial to scientific progress. | Continue reading
Beijing plans to employ nuclear propulsion technology for the project. | Continue reading
The military still loves it. | Continue reading
Beijing has gone out of its way to gain information on African leaders in order to compel and coerce them into supporting China’s international goals. | Continue reading
The researchers from Columbia University noted that although the federal Cares Act—which gave individuals a one-time stimulus check of $1,200 and unemployed workers an enhanced benefit of $600 each week—was largely successful in curbing rising poverty rates in the spring, the eff … | Continue reading
Beijing is playing Washington and Europe against each other, and banks, investors, and ultimately taxpayers are paying for the opportunity to do the bidding of their occasional adversary. | Continue reading
Dennis Killinger, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of South Florida, called the idea “intriguing.” | Continue reading
It was a sleek flying machine that bore an uncanny resemblance to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. | Continue reading