Defense

Steel On The Seas: Why Trump’s Golden Fleet Is The New Peacekeeper

The unveiling of the USS Defiant Trump Class battleship plan during the Golden Fleet announcement at Mar-a-Lago last December 2025, marked a new pivotal shift in power parity for the world, and in empowering the naval power gap for Washington
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Oreshnik And The Return Of Saturation Strike Warfare

Among the many weapons systems to emerge from the Ukraine conflict and its wider strategic shadow, few have generated as much unease as Russia’s reported Oreshnik missile
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UK’s Challenger 3 Tank Hits Milestone With Crewed Live Fire

The British Army’s newly upgraded Challenger 3 Main Battle Tank has undergone and completed crewed live firing, ticking off a key milestone for the £800 million ($1.08 billion) program, expected to eventually deliver 148 vehicles into service
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Su-57 Remains At Technological Cutting Edge

The most advanced Russian fighter jet, the Su-57E, made its first appearance at the Dubai Airshow 2025, immediately drawing significant public attention
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Thailand Deploys Indigenous “Shahed-Like” KB-5E Kamikaze Drone In 2025 Border War With Cambodia

The 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict has rapidly emerged as Southeast Asia’s most volatile and technologically consequential armed confrontation since the early 2010s, transforming what began as a localized territorial dispute into a high-intensity clash defined by artillery duels, precision airstrikes, electronic warfare, and the combat debut of Thailand’s domestically developed kamikaze drone, the KB-5E
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USAF Fighter Jets’ New Strategy On Isolated Island

For the first time, the US Air Force has deployed fighter jets to the secretive, remote island military base of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, a powerful signal to China about the survivability of US combat airpower in the Asia-Pacific
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Lockheed, N. Grumman Profit Off Delayed, Over-Budget Contracts

A new report finds that U.S. arms contractors’ revenues are surging, even as their programs are late and over budget, undermining military planning and drawing funds and resources away from other government priorities
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The MiG-31 Affair Shows The West Is Losing Focus On Battlefield

Russia’s announcement that its security services disrupted an alleged Ukrainian-British attempt to persuade a Russian pilot to defect with a MiG-31 interceptor armed with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile initially sounds like a relic of an earlier era
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Golden Dome Faces Challenges Of Size, Scope And Scale From Every Angle

The announcement of the Golden Dome missile defense system to protect the United States from missile attacks represented a major shift in defense priorities for the US military — and presents myriad challenges when trying to protect a country the size of the US
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Pentagon Formalizes Conventional Forces’ Role In Irregular Warfare, But Will It Stick?

A recent Pentagon directive officially broadens the responsibility of irregular warfare (IW) well beyond the remit of special operations forces, in a move that former practicioners and experts said could be a significant development for America’s posture in the gray zone — but only if there’s real-world follow through
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Why German Rearmament Isn't Happening

On October 13, Germany’s government had to cancel at the last minute a press conference at which it planned to announce a new bill expanding military conscription
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