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Day 68. Trump launched a naval escort mission, 'Project Freedom,' to force open the Strait of Hormuz. Iran attacked the ships. The U.S. sank seven Iranian patrol boats. Then Trump paused the ...

On May 6, the United States offered Iran a one-page, fourteen-point memorandum of understanding through Pakistani mediators to end the war. The framework paired a fifteen-year nuclear enrichment ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia on Tuesday test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile as part of efforts to modernize the country's nuclear forces, a launch hailed by President Vladimir Putin just ...

Introduction The military conflict between the United States and Iran, which grew out of protracted diplomatic efforts to resolve Iran's nuclear dossier, quickly escalated into a systemic global ...

As American forces continue the work of neutralizing the Iranian nuclear threat, reducing the regime's ability to export terror, and re-asserting freedom of the seas in the Strait of Hormuz, we ...

The Ukrainian people have cut the war's duration in half. But we still have to wait for Operation Epic Fury to conclude! The numerous political meetings aimed at ending the war in Ukraine have ...

Mine hunting is a slow, unappealing, labor-intensive, and above all risky search and destroy mission. Mine warfare has been a victim of "institutional neglect" and "thirty years of quiet retreat"

Since 1979, the Iranian regime has invested heavily in molding the Shia political identity around Khomeinism, reaching Shias from Bahrain to the United States. Drawing from non-Twelver Shia sources,

The most dangerous assumption in current contingency planning is that any war, even a regional war involving the United States, would be short. Four interacting forces would make high-intensity ...

China's pressure on Taiwan increasingly relies on vessels that aren't warships. Instead, Beijing is deploying a maritime grey-zone fleet: a network of civilian and paramilitary vessels used to ...