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Turkey Is Putting a $6.5 Billion “Steel Dome” in the Sky

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Brandon J. Weichert

Understanding the United Kingdom’s Fake Ukraine Peace Play

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Brandon J. Weichert

Does Speed Still Matter for Fighter Jets?

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Harrison Kass

Pakistan Might Be on the Brink of a Civil War

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Brandon J. Weichert

Why Poland Wants to Buy Saab’s Upcoming A26 Diesel-Electric Submarine

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Brandon J. Weichert

Israel’s Dangerous Hezbollah Gambit Could Backfire Spectacularly

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Brandon J. Weichert

COP30 in Belém: Why a New Conservation Model Matters for the Amazon

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Joseph Hammond

France Just Unveiled a Powerful New Counter-Drone System

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Brandon J. Weichert

How Germany (Foolishly) Plans to Fight a War with Russia

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Brandon J. Weichert

Meteor Missile Turns the F-35 Lightning into a Jet Killer

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Stavros Atlamazoglou

US Air Force Hints at Radical AI Shift for the B-21 Raider

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Maya Carlin

US Stands Up New Drone Strike Force in the Middle East

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Maya Carlin

Turkey’s Kurds Have Named Their Price for Peace. Will Erdoğan Pay It?

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Brandon J. Weichert

Russia Receives Enhanced Shahed Drones from Iran

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Maya Carlin

How the Louisiana Coastal Erosion Legal Wars Undermine American Energy Dominance

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Guy Caruso

Canada’s Bet on Industrial Policy

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Richard M. Sanders

Is IMEC Worth the Cost?

Trade corridor announcements have become a fixture of great power summitry. At the 2023 G20 summit in New Delhi, leaders unveiled the India-Middle...

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Alireza Ahmadi

The Houthis Bite the Hand That Feeds Yemen’s People

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Bridget Toomey

Putin Rejects US Peace Proposal to End the Ukraine War

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Stavros Atlamazoglou

Why Ukraine’s Oil Attacks on Russia Aren’t Helping Much

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Brandon J. Weichert

B-2 ‘Spirit of Georgia’ Makes Shocking Return to Service

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Maya Carlin

In the Fight for Pokrovsk, Ukraine Is Down But Not Out

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Stavros Atlamazoglou

Why the US’ Lebanon Strategy is Faltering

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Alexander Langlois

Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy Takes Aim at Europe

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Marek Magierowski

The Common-Sense Realism of the National Security Strategy

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Greg R. Lawson

How Georgia Became Russia’s Back Door

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Nicholas Chkhaidze

Nuclear Energy Now – The Asian Development Bank Opens the Door to Nuclear Power

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Emily Day

US Navy Accepts Another Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer

Last month, the United States Navy confirmed that General Dynamics Bath Iron Works handed over the future USS Harvey C. Barnum, Jr. (DDG-124), the...

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Peter Suciu

The USS Nimitz Is Coming Home for the Last Time 

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Peter Suciu

The AGM-88 HARM Is Still an Important Part of the Nation’s Air Defenses

The AGM-88 HARM (High-speed anti-radiation missile) was designed to detect, target, and destroy enemy radar emitters—especially SAM radars and air-...

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Harrison Kass

The Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

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James Holmes

Watt’s Happening: A New Round of Blackouts in Cuba

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Toni Mikec

The Drive to Establish Domestic HALEU Supply Chains is a Gambit

In a decisive move to revive America’s flagging nuclear sector, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has pledged to supply high-assay low-enriched...

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Stella Kim

America’s Nuclear Battlefield: The Janus Program’s Strategic Power Play

While still in early stages, the Janus program could redefine energy resilience, mission assurance, and America’s forward defense posture. In...

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Stella Kim

Spain Is Trying to Modernize Its Armada of Frigates

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Peter Suciu

Russia’s Kalashnikov Concern Is Building an Electric ‘Silent Motorcycle’

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Peter Suciu

How the US Air Force’s F-111 Aardvark Changed Air Warfare Forever

The F-111 Aardvark—so named for its distinctively long nose—first flew in the 1960s, introducing a slew of technologies that are still relevant...

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Harrison Kass

Securing Critical Industries in Europe 

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Niccolò Comini

How AI Can Repair US-India Relations

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Bill Drexel

Hamas’ Gaza Catch-22

President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan faces a critical test that could determine whether it leads to a post-Hamas Gaza or merely institutionalizes the...

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Abdulla Al Junaid

 Israelis and Palestinians Must Confront Their Own Spoilers

Ever since the US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza began on October 10, it has been under attack. Hamas has vowed not to disarm, which undercuts the very...

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David Makovsky

A Possible Role for International Banking Institutions in Commercial Nuclear Projects

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R. Budd Haemer

Why Donald Trump’s Europe Policy Isn’t “Transactional”

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Dalibor Rohac

Five Months to Save the First Island Chain from China

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Kareem Rifai

Russia Is Inching Toward a Jets-for-Bases Deal with Sudan

The Kremlin has sought to maintain its military bases in Syria, including the Tartus naval facility, Russia’s only naval access point in the...

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Peter Suciu

Sweden Can Build a Killer Submarine. Why Can’t Europe Build a Real Navy?

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Brandon J. Weichert

China’s Civilian Laser Warships: Beijing’s Shocking New Taiwan Invasion Plan

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Brandon J. Weichert

Russia’s Putin Issues Chilling New Threat Against Europe

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Stavros Atlamazoglou

Air Force F-35 Jets Deploy to Alaska for Arctic War Training

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Stavros Atlamazoglou

South Korea Is Getting Nuclear Submarines? Good!

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James Holmes