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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
NATO Defense Budgets Need to Prioritize Munitions Spending
At the 2025 NATO summit, every NATO country except Spain agreed to raise their defense spending to 5% of GDP . Among the most important commitments...
Defense Budget
Japan's Easing of Arms Exports Is a Defense Game Changer
The defense industrial base of the Western world is faltering under tremendous strain. But thanks to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, it’s...
Defense Budget
Revitalizing Shipbuilding by Expanding Warship Orders
The big, beautiful reconciliation bill passed by the House and now with the Senate, includes $150 billion in defense spending . This is an outstanding...
Defense Budget
The Pentagon's War on Wasted Dollars
So far, Elon Musk’s DOGE has swept through government agencies like USAID, brushing off cobwebs and uncovering skeletons as it goes. Now, DOGE is set...
U.S. Navy
We're All Living… With One Less Submarine
Everyone in Washington talks about how we need to expand the defense industrial base, especially our shipbuilding capacity. But some conservatives in...
China
China Isn't Just Spending More, It's Spending Smarter
China’s inflation-adjusted military spending is at least three times larger than it was in the year 2000 and by some counts is hundreds of billions of...
China
The Defense Department's China Military Power Report: The Threat is Worse than Advertised
The Defense Department’s latest annual China Military Power Report gets a lot right. It accurately identifies the scope of China’s global ambitions...
In Pursuit of Nuclear Abolition
By Peter Huessy • RealClearDefense
Innovation Alone Won’t Prepare the U.S. for the Future Battlefield
By Joshua Segal • RealClearDefense
The sUAS Tactical Trifecta
By Bryan T. Woody • RealClearDefense
The Revolutionary War: When Strategic Options Share the Same Weakness
By Henry Yep • RealClearDefense
The Houthis Are Testing the Limits of Collective Defense
By Saima Afzal • RealClearDefense
Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki • RealClearDefense
Northrop Grumman Breaks Out the Big Guns at AUSA
By Daniel Terrill, Defense News
Army Pursuing Diverse Array of New Anti-Air Interceptors
By Trevithick, The WarZoneWho Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki, RCD
F-35C Lands for the First Time on a Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier
By The Aviationist
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