RealClearDefense June 8, 2026 Archives

RealClearDefense AM Update

U.S. Army Develops ‘Breakthrough’ Quantum Sensor

Atharva Gosavi IntEngineering

Air Force F-35s Get New Joint Strike Missile

Global Defense News

Containerized Concept Emerges for Navy’s 60kW HELIOS Laser Weapon

NGN

Marines to Make Weapon Integration a Priority

Laura Heckmann National Defense

Do You Even Tokenmaxx, Bro?

Nick Ulmer & Harrison Schramm RealClearDefense

The AI Backbone to Make Acquisition Reforms Work

Stephen D. Cook RCDefense

A New Instrument of Maritime Financial Warfare

Valery Bonakhau CIMSEC

D-Day Reminds Us Who the Real Public Servants Are

J.B. Shurk American Thinker

Economic Fury Tightens Stranglehold on Iranian Dark Fleet

The Maritime Executive

Trump Mulling Purchase of Chagos Islands To Secure Diego Garcia

WashExam

Live: Trump Demands Israel and Iran ‘Immediately Stop ’Shooting’

CNN

What the Iran War Shows About the Future of Warfighting

Corcoran & Tobin RCD

Armenia: The Next Ukraine?

Ian Hill The Interpreter

Inside Britain’s Broken War Machine

Wessie du Toit UnHerd

Japan’s Extended Nuclear Deterrence Strategy

J. Van de Velde Military Strategy M.

Philippines’ UN Loss Strengthens Case for Minilateralism

Corera & Bassi Strategist

Are NOTAMs China’s New Airspace Denial Tactic?

Benjamin Sando RealClearDefense

RealClearDefense PM Update

Pentagon Raised Threat of Israeli Spying on U.S. to Highest Level

C. Kube NBC

Ukrainian AI Interceptors Now Downing Shaheds Autonomously

Staff U24

Israel, Iran Exchange Missile Fire Threatening Middle East Truce

Greg Myre NPR

Ukraine Recaptures More Than 600 Square Kilometers in 2026

Staff Reuters

Trump Says He Never Promised ‘No New Wars’

Cheyanne Daniels Politico

F-47's Exotic Shape Was Hiding In Plain Sight On A Unit Patch

T. Rogoway TWZ

Ankara’s Ambition

Aaron-Matthew Lariosa USNI

RealClearDefense Commentary & Analysis

The Coward Who Gets Promoted

Mark W. Castillon Armed Forces Press

Cold War 2.0: How China Smartly Replaced the Soviet Union

Emzari Gelashvili RCD

A Soldier’s Father on Raising the Army’s Maximum Enlistment Age

G. Rossi RCD

Trump Wants Canada. America Already Tried That in 1776.

Mark Kawar RCDefense

RealClearDefense Books and Culture

Fire in the Jungle

Paul Del Rosario Small Wars Journal