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Cyber Warfare
Ukraine War Highlights a New Threat to the American Homeland
Ukraine has become a proving ground for many of the tactics, techniques, and technologies that will transform that next era of warfare. One recent...

Air Warfare
Air Force's A-10 Uniquely Suited to Fight on Europe's Eastern Front
ÄMARI AIR BASE, Estonia—A memorial site for Soviet air force pilots is hidden in the woods just outside the gates of this NATO air base. Some of the...

U.S. Navy
High Stakes for the U.S. Navy as It Wages War on ISIS
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Russo-Ukraine War
Freedom Isn't Free: Independence Day Reminder From Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine—I arrived in Ukraine for the first time in July 2014, three years ago this month. I originally planned to stay for three weeks.

Russo-Ukraine War
Ukraine's Forever War
KYIV, Ukraine—On May 13, an artillery shell fired from within separatist-controlled territory landed in a residential neighborhood of Avdiivka, a...

Russo-Ukraine War
Russia Ignites Violence in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine—With the world’s eyes on London the day after a lethal terror attack outside of Parliament, a series of violent incidents swept across...

Russo-Ukraine War
"Humanitarian Disaster": As the War in Ukraine Escalates
KYIV, Ukraine—Artillery and rockets have been raining down on the front-line town of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine since Sunday, leaving 16,000...

Russo-Ukraine War
The Two Largest Land Armies in Europe on the Edge of War
KYIV, Ukraine—A planned missile test over the Black Sea spurs a Kremlin threat to shoot down the missiles and possibly target the launch sites. An...

Russo-Ukraine War
"We Need to Know We're Not Alone"
Ukraine’s Soldiers Carry the Burden of a Nation at War MARINKA, Ukraine—As the war in Ukraine nears its fourth calendar year, Ukrainian troops remain...

Eight Months of Epic Fury and Still No Internal Alternative
By Stephen D. Cook • RealClearDefense
The Readiness Cliff: Pacific Lessons Drawn from the Middle East
By Brian McSorley • RealClearDefense
The Pentagon’s Real Modernization Problem Is Time, Not Technology
By Bruce Allen Lubbering • RealClearDefense
The World His Mother Opened
By Carlo J.V. Caro • RealClearDefense_underway_on_5_January_1945_(80-G-301306)-500x500.jpg&w=128&q=75&dpl=dpl_b4z9kRAur4hKL7cdKLa4NMnWKbQq)
Wake Island Lessons for Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations
By Brian J. Dunn • RealClearDefense
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Wake Island Lessons for Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations
By Brian J. Dunn • RealClearDefense
U.S. Navy Expands Unmanned Mine Hunting
By Global Defense News
MRF-SEA Will Maintain Continuous Presence in the Philippines
By Mahadzir, USNI News
Space Force Weighs Proliferated Cislunar Satellite Constellation
By C. Albon, A&SF
America-Class Amphibs Enable New Ship-to-Shore Attack Strategies
By Warrior M.
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