Key Points and Summary – President Donald Trump has unveiled plans for a new “Trump-class” of large surface combatants, billed as modern battleships and...
Key Points – China’s ambition to build nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (Type 004 concept) to match US global naval power faces significant and likely protracted...
Key Points – The Nimitz-class aircraft carriers served as the cornerstone of US naval power projection for four decades, representing a “quantum leap” in...
Key Points – European NATO members, facing President Trump’s intensified demand for defense spending to reach 5% of GDP, are reportedly exploring a “creative...
Are Ukraine’s Priorities Shifting? – If the words of Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the former commander of Ukraine’s armed forces and now ambassador to the UK,...
Key Points – Israel’s Merkava main battle tank series, conceived from the need for strategic self-sufficiency and lessons from the 1973 Yom Kippur War,...
Key Points – President Trump’s recent, somewhat confusing, remarks in Doha (May 15th) about potential new “F-22 Super” and “F-55” (a twin-engine F-35 “super...
Key Points – In 2023, Vyacheslav Kovalskiy, a 58-year-old Ukrainian civilian-turned-sniper, set a new world record for the longest confirmed sniper kill at 2.36...