The Treaty
Vladimir Putin is now a partner in crime and an ostensible dear friend of Kim Jong Un as well as Xi Jinping. Each leader...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy Trump-class battleship program could run $700,000,000,000 in total life-cycle costs through the 2050s. The U.S. Navy plans to build 15 Trump-class...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
For months, conservatives have fretted that Donald Trump may agree to open the U.S. auto market to cheap Chinese electric vehicles as part of...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Retired Rear Adm. Lorin Selby — who served 37 years as a U.S. Navy submarine warfare officer and as the 26th Chief of Naval...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China sees a weakened United States. U.S. President Donald J. Trump has arrived in Beijing for 2 days of talks with Chinese Communist Party...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
A Soviet MiG-25 Foxbat fired a Soviet AA-6 air-to-air missile at an SR-71 Blackbird flown by U.S. Air Force Colonel David Cobb near Vladivostok....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia has not built any operational Amur-class diesel-electric attack submarines. The Russian Amur-class submarine has been derided as existing “only on paper.” Russia’s Rubin...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
SR-71 Blackbird pilot David Peters said that flying the SR-71 at 80,000 feet over the Korean DMZ out of Kadena Air Base on a...
Ukraine War
Russia has lost an estimated 1 million soldiers in Ukraine, either dead or wounded. Russia has also lost 116 square kilometers of net territory...
Ukraine War
The Institute for the Study of War reports Russia has lost substantial territory in Ukraine for the first time since the summer of 2024....
Ukraine War
Key Points and Summary – At dawn in Moscow, Russia, a car bomb killed Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Russian General Staff’s...
The Treaty
The two most powerful leaders in the world will meet later this week in Beijing, and it is unclear how much they can accomplish...
The Treaty
U.S. President Donald Trump heads to Beijing this week for a May 14-15 summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The IEA director recently called...
The Treaty
On Monday, US President Donald Trump stated that the US ceasefire with Iran was in jeopardy. The statement came after he received what he...
Dollars and Sense
President Donald Trump has been dogged in his focus on reviving the nation’s maritime industry – shipbuilding and shipping. On this point, driven by...
Dollars and Sense
The U.S. is Right to Push Back on China—Even While Talking: President Donald Trump is now in Beijing, set to meet with General Secretary...
Dollars and Sense
Percy Spencer invented the microwave oven at Raytheon after a chocolate bar in his pocket melted near an active radar magnetron in 1945. Spencer...
North Korea Talk
MANILA – Russia has paid North Korea up to $ 14.4 billion in military aid since 2023. The figure is roughly equivalent to North...
North Korea Talk
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s reliance on North Korea is one of the clearest side-stories of the Ukraine war—and it will matter as...
North Korea Talk
Key Points and Summary – China’s new disarmament and arms-control white paper pointedly omits any commitment to North Korean denuclearization, confirming what Beijing’s behavior...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
At a recent meeting with senior Pentagon acquisition and industry officials, the conversation started with an overview followed by one set of instructions. Whatever...
Ukraine War
Narva is a pristine city in Estonia, rich in history, culture, and conflict. Located adjacent to the Russian border, Narva and its Estonian inhabitants...