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It has been almost a year since the chaotic American withdrawal from Afghanistan drew easy parallels to the U.S. exit from South Vietnam almost a...
Are Latin America’s armed forces again becoming politically active after decades in which they have largely stayed in the barracks and confined...
The next generation of TV technology is here, with Sony’s launch of the QD OLED TV. The first two were unveiled at CES in January, one from...
Dodging enemy fire, tracking fast-moving enemy targets, surveilling enemy formations, and firing precision weapons are all complex technological...
RUSSIA’S INVASION of Ukraine is expediting the onset of a more dangerous multipolar world that will play by the traditional rules of power...
On July 13, President Joe Biden will attend the first-ever leaders’ summit of the United States, UAE, India, and Israel. Occurring during...
The Department of the Navy recently concluded a unique “Climate Tabletop Exercise” at the Marine Corps Barracks in Washington. The purpose was to...
THE STRATEGIC choices we will face after the war in Ukraine ends will depend on when it ends and how it ends. Nonetheless, we can estimate the...
The United States is making a strong push to leverage F-35 stealth fighters to increase deterrence against Russia in Europe. President Biden...
Delivering life-saving supplies from low altitudes during a major humanitarian crisis, helping police track criminals on the run, and even dropping...
After more than two years of claiming that it had suffered no cases of coronavirus, North Korea admitted this spring that it was experiencing a...
Human umpires have been a part of the game of baseball for as long as the game has existed. But baseball has been testing a concept that would...
According to a report this week from research firm Counterpoint Research, sales of smartphones dropped significantly in the month of May, falling 4...
There has been an explosion in the global economic market for small drones and unmanned systems for both commercial and military operations. This...
U.S. Navy Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ships continue to take on additional mission sets as the service builds the class of ships to enhance its...
AMERICAN TRIUMPHALISM is back. The difficulties encountered by Vladimir Putin’s regime in its invasion of Ukraine are being used to revive Cold...
WHAT DIRECTION should foreign policy take in the wake of the Russo-Ukrainian War? Rather than invent a new and clever theory, it’s time to go back...
Reading Fouad Ajami’s posthumous memoir, When Magic Failed , was like reading my own life story. Both Ajami and I hail from Shia families who...
THE PAST decade has been marked by great power tensions as Beijing and Moscow ever more brazenly challenge the world order that the United States...
There’s no question that the current high-inflationary environment is jeopardizing the financial security of many American seniors. But there...
Everyone seems to be familiar with Venezuela in a caricatural manner—nightmarish hyperinflation, dog-eating citizens, communism! The depictions...
High prices are hurting Americans. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) hit 8.6 percent in May, a forty-year high. Politicians in Washington, DC say...
Largely fueled by the highly transmissible Omicron subvariant BA.5, a new and potentially deadly coronavirus wave appears to be starting in New...
The U.S. Navy has now begun building its third Constellation-class frigate as part of its ambitious plan to fast-track the initial construction of...
The nation’s top Marine, Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. David Berger, just signed off on the Marine Corps’ newest warfighting doctrine,...
AMERICAN FOREIGN policy after—indeed, during—the Russo-Ukrainian War should promptly head to the world’s most decisive region: Asia. This will...
A husband and wife from Arkansas were sentenced this week to federal prison for the crimes of theft of government funds and aiding and abetting, in...
South Korean health officials on Wednesday approved the country’s first domestically developed coronavirus vaccine for people eighteen years or...
Bitcoin has completed its worst month on record, shedding nearly 40 percent of its value in June alone, according to CNBC. Meanwhile, Ethereum, the...
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov alleged that a new “iron curtain” had formed between Russia in the West, invoking a Cold War-era phrase...
RUSSIA’S INVASION of Ukraine has served as a giant bolt of electricity recharging both a North Atlantic Alliance declared brain-dead only a few...
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the son of former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was sworn into office on Thursday as the seventeenth...
Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Hong Kong on Thursday to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the territory’s handover to China—an...
While China celebrates twenty-fifth anniversary of the turnover of the sovereignty of Hong Kong from the British to the Chinese, two very...
In politics as in life, it’s often the unintended consequences that matter most. This has certainly been true of the first round of January 6...
The contrast between the two competing visions in the Middle East is clear: There is Saudi Arabia and its Arab partners, striving hard for a...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) used to have two basic systemic situations: fighting in war and preparing for war. These dynamics existed for...
To understand the nature and shortcomings of the Russian war in Ukraine, it is important to reflect on the nature and evolution of Russian military...
As New York lawmakers continue to work on passing new gun laws, Gov. Kathy Hochul has stated that she wants to ban people from carrying firearms...
President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that the United States would commit an additional $800 million in military aid to Ukraine, raising the...
The United States Air Force’s sixth-generation aircraft, the Next Generation Air Dominance program (NGAD), will not be the kind of aircraft that...
Russian forces have abandoned the strategic outpost of Snake Island, casting Moscow’s war aims into question as the Ukraine conflict grinds into...
In addition to the collapse in recent months of crypto and NFT markets, several figures in crypto have also been brought up on criminal charges. ...
Tanks, helicopters, infantry carriers, and command and control technologies all need to be built with the most cutting-edge and effective...
President Biden on Friday announced the seventeen honorees for this year’s Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor....
Registrations of electric vehicles more than doubled in 2021, reaching an all-time high of 5 percent of the overall market by the end of last year....
As the war in Ukraine enters its fifth month, Western countries have unveiled a new round of military and economic support for Kyiv. President Joe...
Russian forces have abandoned the strategic outpost of Snake Island, loosening Russia’s grip over Ukraine’s Black Sea coast. “On June 30, as a...
Former President Donald Trump famously called for TikTok to be banned in the United States back in 2020, later trying to force a sale of its U.S....
The U.S. Army made a decision on the long-anticipated Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) program, a project that seeks to give the Army a light...
The Supreme Court has dealt a major blow to the Biden administration’s climate change initiatives, limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s...
Colorado Republicans have nominated construction company owner Joe O’Dea, a supporter of most abortion rights, for the U.S. Senate, NBC News...
President Joe Biden on Thursday confirmed that he would support a suspension of the Senate filibuster rule to codify Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973...
THE WAR over Ukraine has exposed two blind spots in U.S. foreign policy that endanger its success going forward. The first is Washington’s...
The government of Ukraine announced on Wednesday that it had conducted a prisoner swap with Russian forces, resulting in the release of 144...
Russian leader Vladimir Putin accused the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military alliance on Wednesday of displaying “imperial...
IF VLADIMIR Putin fails in Ukraine—and the experts almost all suggest that he already has—it will be because he attempted to impose an old...
Syria’s Interior Ministry reported on Wednesday that law enforcement officers had seized fourteen million pills of “Captagon,” a popular...
For the last few weeks, millions of frustrated American drivers have been on the receiving end of much-needed relief at the pump. A continual...
The United States is building a large new headquarters military base in Poland to house the U.S. Army’s V Corps as part of a massive,...
Amazon and several other large drug store chains have started limiting sales of emergency contraceptive pills as demand spikes following last...
In the latest act of bipartisan agreement, Congress passed and the president signed the State and Local Government Cybersecurity Act of 2021...
The White House announced on Tuesday that it will expand the availability of monkeypox vaccine doses in an effort to contain the fast-growing...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky announced that his government had severed diplomatic relations with Syria after the government of Bashar al-...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to have ramifications well beyond the immediate European security environment. Not least of these is the...
It is 2028 and Xi Jinping has begun his fourth term as president of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). After a month of threats, he sends wave...
Beneath the surface of continued discussions about Chinese and Russian hypersonic weapon tests, the United States has also made breakthrough...
Missiles destroying targets with advanced precision-guidance systems, tanks adjusting navigation in response to uneven terrain or enemy obstacles,...
U.S. president Joe Biden said on Wednesday the United States will significantly enhance its military presence in Europe as the West hunkers down for...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra has taken action to direct federal health agencies to ensure...
North Korea has reacted critically to President Biden’s planned meeting with Japanese and South Korean leaders ahead of the NATO Summit in...
One regional gas station and convenience store chain has found an innovative way to help their customers deal with historically high gas prices:...