In 1991, China’s Desert Storm lesson was almost entirely about its capability gap. The maritime domain barely registered because the Gulf War was largely a land-air campaign. The 2026 crisis is ...

CVN 72, CVN 73 and CVN 77. USS John C. Stennis/CVN-74 is currently 14 months behind schedule and the USS Harry S. Truman/CVN-74 is undergoing a complicated refit to repair damage resulting from a ...

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The Western allies trying to negotiate a way to protect the Strait of Hormuz for oil and natural gas shipping face an unambiguous reality: a similar effort in the Red Sea that started years earlier ...

NATO leaders, more than the distant Americans, realize that drones are a major threat. Europeans are developing a joint air defense system that now needs the ability to detect and destroy drones as ...

During the March-April Israeli American attacks on Iran, the Israeli Mossad secret service had numerous operatives inside Iran reporting on the location and activities of Iranian leaders, scientists ...

Another Pentagon announcement warned, "International waters are not a refuge for sanctioned vessels." That statement makes my point about expanding the area of naval operations quite clear. The U.S.

Iran has a lot of naval mines and could, if they were desperate enough, use them to block the Strait of Hormuz and block all oil exports, including Iran’s. Iran has been developing new ways to deploy ...

April 23, 2026: A new Chinese warship has been spotted by satellite photos under construction in a shipyard. The ship has two large square spaces visible that reveal the position and size of the main ...

While Russians quickly adapted to cellular communications and most have cell phones, about 12 percent of them still have landline phones, but only two percent of them regularly use them. The current ...

Over the last two decades, Colombian drug cartels have been moving illegal drugs to European and Asian countries using submarines of various types. A recent innovation was unmanned submarines carrying ...

The Russian current reaction to all this is to change nothing and issue press releases about imaginary victories. Russia now claims that Ukraine, not Russia, has suffered 1.3 million casualties so far ...