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The National Interest
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The world has long marveled at the Brady bonds’ ability to turn near-certain defaults into structured, tradable instruments that revived South...


Three United States Air Force Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers are now operating from Morón Air Base, Spain, as part of the Bomber Task Force...




European defense manufacturer Rheinmetall has broken ground on a large 155mm artillery shell factory near Baisogala, Lithuania. This is important...






Amid the reopening of the federal government, and with the bulk of the defense budget again waiting under a continuing resolution, Congress has...

Four defense giants have teamed up to develop the combat system for Australia’s new nuclear-powered submarines. BAE Systems, Raytheon Australia,...

The Trump administration is mulling over Riyadh’s request to procure as many as four dozen F-35 Lightning II fighter jets. According to US news...

On the night of November 8, Russian forces in Ukraine launched a significant wave of attacks against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. The Kremlin...

“If we can psychologically define evil, we can make sure this never happens again.” That is how Major Douglas Kelley, played by Rami Malek,...

The Ukrainian military continues to hold on to the town of Pokrovsk in the face of determined Russian attacks. The Russian military has been...

The authoritarians are the dynamists now. That startling claim came up some years ago during the Q&A following a China talk I gave at a gathering...

The US Air Force’s new plan to acquire hundreds more fighter jets sounds bold and is a declaration that America intends to keep air dominance well...

Despite a 2016 international tribunal ruling against China’s claim to the near-entirety of the South China Sea, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)...

The United States Navy confirmed on Tuesday that the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the world’s largest aircraft carrier, had arrived in the...

While reports over the last year have indicated infighting between the partners behind the next-generation Future Combat Air System (FCAS),...

Although President Trump is apparently frustrated that Russian president Vladimir Putin decided not to meet in Budapest in October to discuss the...

New York City’s mayoral race offered a preview of what’s coming: AI-generated ads, doctored robocalls, and deepfaked endorsements. Just weeks...

Critical minerals are abundant, but without political continuity and legitimate governance, they remain out of reach. When Tom Barrack, the United...

Uruguay’s pragmatic and nonpartisan quest for renewable energy highlights how even small nations can achieve rapid decarbonization and economic...




As Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping prepares to meet with President Trump in the coming months, the CCP is reportedly pushing the...




A potent version of the Changing of the Guard, viewed annually by millions of spectators at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, is playing out...

The US-China summit at APEC in Gyeongju, South Korea, achieved what both leaders wanted most urgently: a pause in an escalating trade war that had...


On October 24, the Pentagon announced that the USS Gerald R. Ford and its attendant strike group would be dispatched from the Mediterranean to the...





The sixth and newest branch of the United States military has been developing new systems to jam adversarial satellites. The United States Space...


In January 2022, India and the Philippines signed a contract for India to supply the Philippines with three shore-based anti-ship missile batteries...


Space is now a firmly recognized strategic domain. Indeed, it is the ultimate strategic high ground wherein the world’s great powers—and...


President Donald Trump now wants the United States to resume its Cold War-era pastime of testing nuclear weapons. On October 29, the 47th president...



In his first year, President Trump has projected the image of a deal-making leader, bent on restructuring the world’s economic and security...


When world leaders gathered in New York for the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), expectations were largely predictable. Commentators...


The need to regulate nuclear-powered ships is a matter that will only grow more pressing with the passage of time. After decades in which the...
