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The Year Moscow Felt the War

In Moscow this year, people stopped answering “How are you?” with “Fine.” They started saying, “I’m full tank.”K. first heard it from a friend, right [...] More

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The Command We Must Fund

The Army's Armored Force was born in July 1940, a few weeks after France fell. No act of Congress created it, and no budget line funded it. The Chief [...] More

China's Return to One-Man Rule

The U.S. will be holding mid-term elections on November 3, to elect the people’s representatives to enact laws, provide oversight and represent the [...] More

The Hidden Cost of America’s War With Iran

“The [U.S. Naval Support Activity Bahrain] base and Fifth Fleet headquarters have been rendered largely inoperable for their original functions, with [...] More

The Command We Must Start

In 1928, Secretary of War Dwight Davis ordered the Army to assemble an experimental mechanized force of tanks, armored cars, and motorized infantry [...] More

The U.S. Military Has Much to Learn From Ukraine

“What does Ukraine really need? How do we make sure they're delivering what they actually need? And you know, right now those are air defense [...] More

The Terms We Must Set

On October 23, Russia's deputy prime minister said three tankers were at sea, that supply contracts were being finalized, and that volumes would rise [...] More

The Intelligence Community’s Missing Discipline

Economic statecraft has become a primary instrument of US national security, deployed with a frequency and ambition that outpaces the intelligence [...] More

The Thirteenth Mile: This Is What Gray Zone War Looks Like

On the morning of October 23, the cargo ship Khoryv sent a distress call 13 nautical miles off Constanța, Romania. Territorial waters end at twelve. [...] More

Russia Never Left the International Financial System. It Built a Way Back In.

A7’s OpenAI prompt was six words long: "Translate [name] to [language]. Answer only translated text."Developer code leaked in 2025 from A7—the [...] More

The U.S. Army’s Pacific Strategy Depends on Allies

“We never fight alone. We've never done that. You can go all the way back to the days of Revolutionary War. The United States has never gone into [...] More

Muhammad bin Salman’s Humbling and the Return of the Ottomans

The Houthis bloodied Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s nose—again—with their deadly, cruel, but effective attacks on Riyadh’s King Khalid [...] More

The Day We Cannot Choose

Washington made three decisions this week, and none of them has an end date. On the night of October 14, Ukrainian units in the field found that [...] More