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At a time when the incoming administration wants to position itself to challenge China's growing strengths, namely its rapidly expanding naval fleet, it is curious that the Navy continues to ...

President Trump has nominated L. Brent Bozell III, founder of the Media Research Center, to serve as CEO of the US Agency for Global Media, an umbrella organization for government-sponsored media ...

Hypersonic Overhype: Challenging the Strategic Necessity of High-Speed Arms The United States has been exploring research and development of hypersonic weapons technologies for decades ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos Island chain in the Indian Ocean. It is one of the most important and ...

Falling Behind: The Urgent Need for a Technological Revolution in Canada's Armed Forces Canada's defense policy has long been characterized by a mix of strategic ambition and chronic ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military has conducted airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump's second ...

Favoritism Inevitably Draws Scrutiny: The Army's Special Treatment of Capt. Rebecca Lobach Fuels Speculation and Dishonors all Who Perished in the Recent DC Air Collision On Saturday the U.S. Army ...

The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation by Victor Davis Hanson Defeat is the feared conclusion of war but rarely is annihilation the outcome. Whether belligerents are ...

Matthew R. Costlow, Deterrence is Integrated in Theory, but not in Practice: The Problem and (Partial) Solution, No. 614, February 3, 2025 Download PDF Deterrence is Integrated in Theory,

Download PDF Introduction In late September, a U.S. HC-103J Super Hercules spotted four foreign vessels operating about 440 miles southwest of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Upon closer inspection, the ...