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Let Us Tell You All of the Reason Why the B-2 Bomber Rules

Kyle Mizokami Security, Americas Meet the B-2 Spirit. Key Point: There is no bomber like it. This is why. The B-2 Spirit is one of three...

Kyle Mizokami

This Helicopter Looks Straight Out Of Science Fiction—But It Was an Epic Failure

Sebastien Roblin , More than three billion per chopper? Key Point: Had the Pentagon poured in additional billions, the RAH-66’s lingering bugs...

Sebastien Roblin

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Study This Plane Closely: It Wage a Nuclear War and Kill Billions

Sebastien Roblin Security, Americas It's more dangerous than it looks. Key Point: Retrofitted with more fuel-efficient CFM-56 turbojets and...

Sebastien Roblin

Israel's F-35I Stealth Fighter Might Be the Best Plane in the Sky

Sebastien Roblin Security, Israel has also been a proponent of a two-seat variant of the F-35. Key point: Over time, Israel will likely acquire...

Sebastien Roblin

Check Out Russia’s Newest Attack Submarine

David Axe Security, We’ve gotten a glimpse of what could be Russia’s next attack submarine. We’ve gotten a glimpse of what could be Russia’s...

David Axe

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Britain's Military Is Getting Some Serious Firepower Upgrades

David Axe Security, Europe Rumors about defense cuts were unfounded. Key point: Britain's military is receiving boosted funds. The British military...

David Axe

The F-22 Raptor Now Has Enemies To Fight

Robert Farley Security, Americas Is it time to restart production? Key point: The F-22 has enjoyed the unusual distinction of holding an almost...

Robert Farley

Tell Trump: War With Iran Would Be Worse Than You Think—And It Might Not Succeed

Robert Farley Security, Middle East Serious business. Key Point: If the Islamic Republic didn’t not collapse, the U.S. would eventually have to...

Robert Farley

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Think China's Air Force Could Beat America? It Couldn't Even Beat Thailand

David Axe Security, Europe Thai pilots were flying Swedish jets. Key Point: As the war game continued, the Chinese pilots struggled to repeat...

David Axe

America's F-35 Can't Stand Against Russia's Su-57 Armed With Hypersonic Missiles

Mark Episkopos Security, Europe It's a capability America can't match. Key point: Russia’s integration of hypersonic missiles with...

Mark Episkopos

Why AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X CPU Is Truly a Game Changer

Mark Episkopos Technology, For semi-professionals seeking the best workstation performance short of a dedicated HEDT, the 3950X is the only game in...

Mark Episkopos

Get Ready for Unstoppable, Deadly Hypersonic Weapons

Dan Goure Politics, Americas The hyper-war. Key Point: Some hypersonic weapons are so fast and maneuverable that they are unlikely to even be seen...

Dan Goure

That's No Moon: Turns Out That Earth Has a New Satellite

David Rothery Environment, Americas So-called “mini-moons” like this one come and go. The Minor Planet Centre has just announced that the Earth...

David Rothery

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Coronavirus Can Be Stopped. History Can Show Us How.

Peter Hall Health, Americas The Spanish flu pandemic was triggered by a virus that is now a household name: H1N1. H1N1 resurfaced in 2009, again...

Peter Hall

Here's How the Coronavirus Could Take Down China's Tech Companies

Stratfor Worldview Economics, Asia Not good. Without question, the new coronavirus has taken a toll on China and many other places in the world,...

Stratfor Worldview

Coronavirus Could Shake Up South Korea's Big April Elections

Mitchell Blatt Health, Will President Moon's party feel the wrath of voters over his response to the virus? Trying to keep track of Korean...

Mitchell Blatt

Horrible: In 1944 Pearl Harbor Suffered From an Accidental Ammunition Explosion

Sebastien Roblin History, Americas That's pretty bad. Key point: It was as if Pearl Harbor was being attacked again. However, it was not- the...

Sebastien Roblin

Caught: China's J-11 Fighter Sure Does Look Like a Copy of Russia's SU-27 'Flanker'

Sebastien Roblin Technology, Asia Looks like the Communist Party has been caught... red-handed. Key Point: China is known for buying and stealing...

Sebastien Roblin

Birth Pains: America's New Carriers Had a Lot of Problems (And Explosions) in the 1960s

Sebastien Roblin History, Americas Nothing worth it is easy. Key point: Saftey issues and mistakes caused many deadly tragedies on several U.S....

Sebastien Roblin

Shocking: China and the CIA Both Helped Saudi Arabia Get Their Own Ballistic Missiles

Sebastien Roblin Security, Middle East Well that was a bad idea. Key point: Saudi Arabia wanted long-range missiles and it got them. It turns out...

Sebastien Roblin

Forget F-22s or F-35s: This Is the 'Stealth' America Really Needs

Kris Osborn Technology, Americas What it can do is important. Key point: The emergence of a drone of this kind bears prominently upon ongoing...

Kris Osborn

Coronavirus Won't Take Down China

Lyle J. Goldstein Health, But this should be a wake-up call for Washington and Beijing to come together and battle this global health challenge...

Lyle J. Goldstein

The Crazy Tale of a Russian Spy Job Gone Bad in Miami

Stratfor Worldview Security, Americas A serious threat. The U.S. Department of Justice on Feb. 18 announced the arrest in Miami of a man being...

Stratfor Worldview

America Alone: Why the Trump Administration Will Pay for Alienating Its Strategic Partners

Peter Harris Politics, Americas Cultivating support among middle powers is perhaps the most straightforward way that the United States can ensure...

Peter Harris

I See You: Do Surveillance Cameras Change People's Behavior?

Janina Steinmetz Society, World Here's what we know. Facial recognition is increasingly being used in many countries around the world. In some...

Janina Steinmetz

Election Mirage: Why Claims of Russian Meddling Should Be Questioned

George Beebe, David B. Rivkin, Jr. Security, Americas The winner in this deepening struggle between the White House and the intelligence world is...

George Beebe, David B. Rivkin, Jr.

Crime Against Humanity: China Has Never Forgotten Japan's Bloody Assault On Nanking

Warfare History Network History, Asia A combination of factors led to some of the worst atrocities in history. On August 15, 1937, the Japanese...

Warfare History Network

Barack Obama Destroyed Libya Thanks to His 'Good Intentions'

Ted Galen Carpenter Security, Actions have consequences. In a new National Interest Online article, I discuss how advocates of...

Ted Galen Carpenter

Wanna Know Why Kim Jong-Un Is Smiling? He's 'Sitting' on Trillions of Dollars.

Patricia Schouker Security, Asia North Korea has a lot of wealth--just below the surface. Key point: South Korea estimates the value of the...

Patricia Schouker

Why Winston Churchill's Greatest World War II Fear Never Came True

Warfare History Network History, Europe Germany never invaded Great Britain. Key point: Hitler’s mind was no longer on England, if it had ever...

Warfare History Network

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America's Submarines May Be Seeing A Stealth Revolution

Kris Osborn Technology, Americas And it's all because of "electric drive" propulsion systems. Key point: Using an electric motor optimizes use of...

Kris Osborn

China's Coronavirus Recession Has Arrived

Salvatore Babones Economics, Asia If China's economy was growing at all at the beginning of 2020, it isn't anymore. If you don't think you can...

Salvatore Babones

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Why Russia Is Completely Ignoring This New German-Made Submarine

Sebastien Roblin Politics, Asia (It was sold to Singapore). Key point: Singapore wants to defend itself from any regional power that might threaten...

Sebastien Roblin

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How the 1994 Battle of Grozny Changed Russia Forever

Sebastien Roblin History, Europe A terrible war. Key point: There was a limit to how far Russia would let its ethnic enclaves go in pushing for...

Sebastien Roblin

13 Years in the Making: Joe Biden Is Heading to Fox News

Hunter DeRensis Politics, This Sunday former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden have scheduled an exclusive...

Hunter Derensis

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Donald Trump Must Know This: War Is No Alternative To Dealing With Iran (Still)

Geoff Wilson Security, Middle East The present has echoes of 2015. Key Point: While many conservatives are quick to spurn negotiations with Iran,...

Geoff Wilson

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North Korea Has a Secret Weapon: Tunnels, Lots of Tunnels

Sebastien Roblin Security, The extent of the remaining infiltration tunnels and the role they would actually play in North Korean military strategy...

Sebastien Roblin

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1 Reason Why America's Delta Force Remains One of the Best in the World

Sebastien Roblin Security, Americas Lots of training. Key point: Not anyone can be a member of the Delta Force. These elite members must be strong...

Sebastien Roblin

60 Years of Service: How the F-4 Keep Flying Around the World

Sebastien Roblin Security, Americas Very impressive. Key Point: Many countries still use the American-made F-4. In fact, this venerable fighter...

Sebastien Roblin

Meet the Qiam: The Deadly Missile Iran Used to Attack an American Base

Sebastien Roblin Technology, Middle East How dangerous is it? Key point: A month ago these missiles were used to strike American bases and caused...

Sebastien Roblin

Donald Trump Is Destroying Nuclear Arms Control

David Axe Security, New START expires in less than a year. Key point: Trump could still take a different view of New START, but there is little...

David Axe

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This Is Where The U.S. Navy's Battleships Finally Got Their Revenge For Pearl Harbor

Warfare History Network Security, Japan never stood a chance. Key point: The Japanese underestimated American power and resilience, as they had...

Warfare History Network

Hitler Nearly Conquered All Of Europe (And He Had Plans for Switzerland)

Michael Peck Security, Europe Hitler didn't care for Swiss neutrality. Key point: Switzerland almost became another one of Hitler’s conquests....

Michael Peck

Meet The Man Who Helped The Army Completely Crush Nazi Germany

Warfare History Network History, Europe Few officers of his rank had contributed as much to Allied victory as General Alvan Cullom Gillem, Jr. Key...

Warfare History Network

More Than Hitler's Panzer Tanks Wrecked Havoc Upon Russia In World War II

Warfare History Network History, Europe Great tanks and leaders. Key point: It was only the first day of the largest tank battle of Barbarossa so...

Warfare History Network

Is Iran Giving the Houthis Plane-Killer Missiles?

Peter Brookes Security, Middle East More menacing munitions. Key Point: The war in Yemen isn't over just yet... Add surface-to-air missiles to the...

Peter Brookes

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Nuclear War Could Be Devastating for America—With or Without a Retaliatory Strike

Joshua M. Pearce Security, Americas The United States has more than five thousand nuclear weapons. The White House’s 2021 budget calls for...

Joshua M. Pearce

Trump's Peace Plan for Israel Puts the Palestine Authority's Future at Risk

Satya Marar Security, Middle East This deal won’t accomplish much besides that. It requires major concessions that Palestinians have already been...

Satya Marar

A Company’s Good Deeds Reflect on Its Products—Sometimes Inaccurately

Valerie Good economy, Americas Consumers may think Boeing’s planes are safer because the company donated 250,000 masks to China. Companies like...

Valerie Good

How Birds Can Predict the Future

Felice Wyndham Science, World Everything you wanted to know. People around the world and throughout history have used birds to think about and...

Felice Wyndham

Should Medical Professionals Receive Priority Treatment for the Coronavirus?

Dominic Wilkinson Public Health, World Let's take a closer look. It is mid-March 2020. James is a 29-year-old junior doctor working in a London...

Dominic Wilkinson

What America's Stealth Fighter Pilots Need to Learn From World War II

Sebastien Roblin Security, Americas New planes, old tactics? Key Point: The Air Force is used to having the upper hand but that is dangerous. The...

Sebastien Roblin

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Copycat: Russia Once Had Its Own SR-71 Blackbird, And Then It Didn't

Sebastien Roblin History, Europe The Reaktivny Samolet ramjet-powered bomber could cruise at three times the speed of sound. Key point: Following...

Sebastien Roblin

Upgrade Time: China's Huge Air Force Is Full of Clunkers

Sebastien Roblin Security, Asia Beijing is willing to pay the cost. Key point: Beijing has become a world power by buying or building modern...

Sebastien Roblin

Donald Trump Has Less Than a Year to Save the Last Nuclear Arms Treaty

Daniel R. DePetris Security, At a time when U.S.-Russia ties are in danger of falling off the cliff, saving New START will preserve some...

Daniel R. Depetris

Watch Out: Russia's Air Force Is Getting More Hypersonic Missiles for Its Fighters

Mark Episkopos Security, Europe Even the Su-57? Key point: Moscow is going big into the hypersonics arms race. That means arming its best fighters...

Mark Episkopos

Why the Soviet Union Is to Blame for North Korea's Military Rise

Mark Episkopos History, Asia Stalin gave the Kim regime a jumpstart. Key point: Pyongyang wouldn't have been able to try to conquer Seoul or...

Mark Episkopos

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Did President Trump Request Enough Money from Congress to Fight the Coronavirus?

Hunter DeRensis Security, With congressional Republicans wishing to be more safe than sorry, it’s likely the final bill will be much more towards...

Hunter Derensis

Mike Pence Is Going to War Against the Coronavirus

Hunter DeRensis Health, Even at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, where Pence also spoke today, addressing the coronavirus...

Hunter Derensis

Mubarak May Be Dead, But Egypt Is Not Better Off

Danielle Pletka Security, Middle East The Arab Spring was not kind to Egypt. Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak died today in Cairo, aged 91....

Danielle Pletka

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Here's Everything We Know About China's Domestically Built Shandong Aircraft Carrier

Sebastien Roblin Technology, Asia A big step for China. Key point: It took a lot of hard work, but China has launched another homemade carrier....

Sebastien Roblin

$90 Million Upgrade: Is the Navy's Troubled Zumwalt Class Worth Fixing?

Sebastien Roblin Security, Americas A floating boondoggle. Key Point: The Zumwalt class of destroyers was supposed to be a fleet of high-tech...

Sebastien Roblin

Step Aside Stealth: Will the Air Force Want the New F-15X?

Sebastien Roblin Technology, Americas Why have just the F-35 when you can have both? Key Point: The F-15X would be a major upgrade to the legacy...

Sebastien Roblin

How Syrian Rebels Used American-Built TOW Missiles to Blow up Russian Tanks

Sebastien Roblin Security, Middle East The TOW is serious business. Key point: Russia's tanks are good but not indestructible and their crews...

Sebastien Roblin

This Plane Is Still the World's Fastest And Sits in a Museum. It Could Be Reborn a Bomber.

Sebastien Roblin Security, Imagine a new SR-71 that is modernized and can bomb targets. Key point: The SR-72’s promoters argue that “speed is...

Sebastien Roblin

Ever Heard of the Ho 229? It Was Hitler's "Stealth" Plane

Sebastien Roblin History, Europe But it never took off. Key point: Berlin invented many wonder weapons, but not all of them were successful. In...

Sebastien Roblin

F-35s for India: Is America About to Make a Big Stealth Sale?

Sebastien Roblin Politics, Asia Lots of money and sensitive tech involved. Key Point: New Delhi still likes Russian technology, but Washington is...

Sebastien Roblin

This Picture Was Hitler's Plan To Stop the Fall of His Nazi Empire

Warfare History Network History, Europe A people's militia was his idea. It failed. Key point: The Nazis were simply wrong about both their...

Warfare History Network

Why Do Progressives Keep Calling Me a Racist?

Dennis Prager Politics, Americas The media needs to issue a correction. A few weeks ago, I devoted my column to an article about me published in...

Dennis Prager

The Army's World War II Sherman Tank Wasn't Perfect (But It Won World War II?)

Kyle Mizokami History, Europe Postwar American tank development ensured that U.S. tankers were never again outmatched on the battlefield. Key...

Kyle Mizokami

Super Tuesday Question: Who Will Be Left Standing to Take on Bernie Sanders?

Daniel R. DePetris Politics, Could Joe Biden make a comeback? What about Amy? Is Mayor Pete the moderate voice the Democrats need? So many...

Daniel R. Depetris

No, the Navy's Submarines Don't Need W76-2 Tactical Nuclear Weapons

Sebastien Roblin Security, Americas A risky idea. Key point: Tactical nukes increase the danger of nuclear use. They are small but they still count...

Sebastien Roblin

In 1935 Patton Bombed a Volcano in Order to Save a City

Sebastien Roblin History, Americas Yes, really. Key point: The plan made sense, but the bombs likely weren't strong enough. However, the lava flow...

Sebastien Roblin

Apple's iPhone 12 Could Get 'Infected' by the Coronavirus

Mark Episkopos Technology, Could the new smartphone's launch get disrupted thanks to the virus? As the Coronavirus continues to roil mainland...

Mark Episkopos

Critic Says Trump Is 'Ignorant' and 'Incoherent' On Coronavirus. Others Call It 'Trump' Virus.

Hunter DeRensis Health, Can President Trump keep the American people prepared but not panicked? Yesterday evening President Donald Trump...

Hunter Derensis

Why a So-Called 'Digital' Census Is a Really Awful Idea

Anjana Susarla Security, Americas Here are 3 things to know. The U.S. Census Bureau is hoping that most people who live in the U.S. will use the...

Anjana Susarla

Triangular Diplomacy Is the Best Strategy to Court India and Counter China

Arjun Kapur Security, Asia Despite all of Washington’s platitudes about the world’s oldest and largest democracies uniting in common cause to...

Arjun Kapur

Trump Down? Bernie Up? Poll Pushers Are Confusing Americans

Michael Traugott Politics, Americas As the media focus more on these dynamics of the campaign, there has been a decline in coverage of the...

Michael Traugott

What Happens When Tinder and AI 'Hook Up'?

Stefanie Duguay Technology, World Tinder mentioned app updates will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) to validate profile photos. What does...

Stefanie Duguay

Why Customers Hate Being Forced to Tip Before They’ve Been Served

Nathan B. Warren, Sara Hanson economy, Americas Should the tip come before you taste your food? Imagine you’re in line at a coffee shop. You...

Nathan B. Warren, Sara Hanson

The Forgotten Story of Why Americans are So Afraid of Bernie's Socialism

Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy Politics, New research digs into the history of American's fears on this issue. Bernie Sanders has emerged as the...

Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy

Six Hundred Kills? These Two Nazi German Snipers Were a Menace to Russian Troops

Warfare History Network History, Europe Bang! Key Point: Allerberger and Matthaus Hetzenauer, another skilled Austrian sniper in the same...

Warfare History Network

Big-Motor Bombers. The U.S. Air Force Has Mulled B-52 Re-Engining Since the 1950s

David Axe Security, The U.S. Air Force in early 2020 expects to formally request proposals from industry for replacing the engines on the flying...

David Axe

Why Is Russia Sending New Submarines to the Arctic Circle?

Mark Episkopos Security, arctic Devious plans? Key point: As the Arctic thaws, new trade routes and resources are opening up. Needless to say,...

Mark Episkopos

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Ukraine Is Getting Stronger: What If It Could Take on Russia?

Mark Episkopos Security, Europe Or is that just silly? Key point: Ukraine doesn't have nuclear weapons and probably won't ever be as strong as...

Mark Episkopos

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Did Donald Trump Make a Major Mistake in India?

Sumit Ganguly Security, Asia About 100,000 Indians say ‘Namaste Trump’ even though the president ignores some key human-rights concerns....

Sumit Ganguly

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Israeli Wants to Use Powerful Lasers to Cut Apart Iran's Missiles

Mark Episkopos Technology, Middle East A new, improved defense system? Key point: Iran has threatened Israel before, but Israeli is working on...

Mark Episkopos

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The Reason Why Democrats Can't Attack Bernie's Socialism

James Pethokoukis Politics, Americas They're democratic socialists lite. At the South Carolina debate tonight, Democratic presidential contenders...

James Pethokoukis

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What? Winning an Internship Is Easier When You Have an Internship

David A. Jaeger, Alan Seals, John M. Nunley Education, Americas Race, region and grades all play a role. When summer approaches, many college...

David A. Jaeger, Alan Seals, John M. Nunley

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North Korea Could Be The World War III Trigger That We Feared All Along

Kyle Mizokami Security, It could start a U.S.-China war. Key point: A U.S.-China conflict plays to the strengths both sides have been steadily...

Kyle Mizokami

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Could Battleships Be In The Picture for the U.S. Navy?

Kyle Mizokami Security, A gone age come again. Key point: If the will and the funding were there, there are some very interesting things that could...

Kyle Mizokami

The F-35 Will Soon Become a Nuclear Bomber?

Sebastien Roblin Security, Bad news for America's adversaries. Key point: The Block 4 upgrade is set to round-out the F-35’s capabilities against...

Sebastien Roblin

Meet the "Koksan" Big Guns North Korea Has Aimed at South Korea

Sebastien Roblin Security, Asia Let's hope it never happens. Key Point: These artillery pieces might be old, but they are still able to kill...

Sebastien Roblin

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24 Hours Or Less: Nowhere On Earth Is Safe From America's F-22 Raptors

Kris Osborn Security, You have 24 hours, max. Key point: Should the need to attack emerge suddenly in a particular part of the world, a small...

Kris Osborn

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The Pentagon Just Simulated a 'Limited' Nuclear War With Russia

David Axe Security, Don’t be fooled. A ‘small’ nuclear war would change everything. The Pentagon in late February simulated a “limited”...

David Axe

This Unit Had Some of the Finest Marine Aces of World War II

Warfare History Network History, Americas They won many medals. Key Point: The Marines are tough and they used their aircraft to great effect. Here...

Warfare History Network