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The geopolitics of gas may be shifting again as the United States and Russia revisit LNG sanctions, Nord Stream 2 revival, pipeline transit deals,...
New footage depicting China’s latest fighter jet circulated on social media this week. The futuristic, three-engine, tailless wing aircraft was...
Newly disclosed statistics show that the U.S. Air Force has conducted 53 surveillance missions around the U.S.-Mexico border. The purpose of the...
The Hawker Hurricane has never quite gotten the credit it is owed. The most prominent air battle of all time was the Battle of Britain, in which...
Last month, Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) enjoyed a major milestone in their domestically produced KF-21 Boramae warplane program. At that time,...
A border skirmish has erupted between a well-armed Venezuelan gang and the Armed Forces of Guyana in the disputed, oil-rich, sparsely populated...
Great Britain’s Royal Navy (RN) doesn’t have the power projection capabilities it did during the previous three centuries, so, to paraphrase the ...
Once upon a time, Vladislav Surkov was a key architect of Russia’s political system and a close adviser to its long-serving strongman president,...
Iran cannot deter Israel. Israel’s military and covert capabilities have had free rein to take on the Islamic Republic and its partners. Iran’s...
The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine is resigning from her post ahead of schedule, according to the U.S. Department of State. In a rare move, Ambassador...
The United States Air Force Special Operations Command, one of the ten major Air Force commands and the Air Force’s component of U.S. Special...
The security assistance Ukraine has been receiving from the United States and scores of other countries in Europe and across the globe has often...
The Russian ground forces are taking a battering in Ukraine, with casualties nearing the 1 million mark. But although the Russian Aerospace Forces...
The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), now in full swing, has been heralded by its European proponents as a bold step to rein in the power of Big...
Iranian-backed militias continue to play an outsized role in the politics determining the future of Iraq. The militias come under the umbrella of...
The French-based Dassault Aviation may be bailing out of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program, which has been seeking to develop a sixth-...
United States Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, who had been serving as the U.S. military representative to the North Atlantic Treaty...
When it comes to tank lethality, the American-made Abrams family of armored vehicles arguably takes the cake. The tried and trusted main battle tank...
New footage has emerged of a new and secretive Chinese stealth aircraft, commonly referred to as the Chengdu J-36. The footage, shot from a...
The United States continues striving for relevancy in an increasingly contested international battlespace. With great-power rivals like China and...
The much-dreaded “Black Monday”—a day on which financial experts warned that the stock market would further collapse, pitching the United States...
The war in Ukraine has transformed the geopolitical situation and brought about changes to the technologies and tactics that warring states use in...
Israel has become a hub of advanced missile and missile defense systems. This is a natural outgrowth of the fact that Israel, as the only democracy...
Is it a truce? A ceasefire? Even an armistice? On the verge of triggering a global trade war, President Donald Trump beat a tactical retreat on...
Throughout most of the twentieth century, the United States stood as the world’s premier industrial force. The country’s manufacturing prowess...
Since 2014, the United States and its allies have provided increasing military support to Ukraine while imposing more and tougher economic...
Last month, U.S. secretary of defense Pete Hegseth directed the USS Carl Vinson to head toward the Red Sea to join the USS Harry S. Truman in the...
Last week, President Donald Trump fired the head of the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM). Though Trump campaigned...
History, one might say, is returning in full force to post-Cold War Europe. After 30 years of benefiting from generous American security guarantees...
Scenes from the sci-fi movie The Terminator could very well be on the horizon as the U.S. Air Force is getting ready to test autonomous flying...
The war in Ukraine continues with no clear ending in sight. Although Ukraine, Russia, and the United States are engaged in ceasefire talks, the...
The People’s Republic of China’s newest aircraft carrier, Fujian, has begun its seventh round of sea trials. According to Senior Colonel Wu Qian,...
When it comes to power projection out at sea, the U.S. Navy’s fleet of eleven nuclear-powered Nimitz-class aircraft carriers outnumbers every other...
Back on February 8, 2025, we at The National Interest discussed how the Daring-class (aka the Type 45 or less formally the “D” class) guided...
Military officials in Seoul acknowledged on Tuesday that South Korean troops had fired warning shots after approximately ten North Korean soldiers...
Cessna is known as a dominant force in general aviation—perhaps the world’s preeminent manufacturer of two- and four-seaters, the aircraft of...
The Air Force may be considering boosting its order of EA-37B electronic attack aircraft, according to insider sources. The Air Force is...
Venezuela’s acquisition and deployment of the Russian-made SA-24 Man-Portable Air-Defense System (MANPADS), also known as the 9K338 Igla-S,...
Japan’s role in the Second World War was truly outsized, considering it was such a small, resource-strapped nation in the Northern Pacific. Yet it...
Launched in 1940 and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), the battleship Yamato stands as the largest battleship ever built—and one...
Since the early morning hours of February 24, 2022, the Russian armed forces have engaged in the largest conflict on European soil since the end of...
The unconstitutionality of climate superfund laws shows that they are more the product of political myopia than an attempt to help the environment....
To minimize plastic waste and pollution, the United States should reject blanket bans and instead address root causes through innovation and the...
U.S.-Brazil AI cooperation could unlock sustainable infrastructure for data centers at a time when America’s energy constraints threaten its tech...
Iran has lost its grip on Syria, and its influence in Lebanon is loosening, signaling not just a regional shift but a seismic collapse that echoes...
Editor’s Note: The following is adapted from the first and final chapters of the forthcoming book World to Come: The Return of Trump and the End of...