What Happened Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles against multiple U.S. targets in Iraq, including military facilities in Irbil in northern Iraq and Al-Asad Air Base in western Iraq, ABC News reported Jan. 7. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed credit for launching the missiles in Iranian state media, and said that any […]

HIGHLIGHTS Tech billionaire Peter Thiel sparked a debate this summer when he declared Google’s artificial intelligence work in China bad for U.S. national security. AI fundamentally is a military technology; at best Google is ill-informed of Beijing’s intent if it thinks its work with China is benign, Thiel and others argue. Thiel’s argument raises important […]

While fuselages of F-117s destined to museums are spotted as they are hauled by trucks across the US quite frequently, the remaining aircraft continue to fly. The following interesting video is actually a compilation of photographs taken at TTR as two F-117s were flying together last month. The accompanying radio comms give us some details about the mission flown on October […]

FORT McCOY, Wis. — The war zone of tomorrow may be a dystopian hellscape of crippling cyber strikes, autonomous death rays and swarms of killer bots. But whatever America’s future conflicts might bring, this much is certain: There will finally be cup holders. The United States military is replacing the aging and little-loved Humvee, the […]

With the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China now past, the period of greatest danger is upon Hong Kong. Beijing, no longer worried about spoiling the festivities, might be more inclined to use force against Hong Kong. Of course, there are many good reasons for Beijing to resist that urge, including damage […]

On the territorial fringes of the alliance, where European military might is at its thinnest, an overconfident Putin might exploit the weakness to conduct a new “hybrid” war. They came trundling through the town of Voronezh in western Russia in broad daylight on Oct. 3. Green army vehicles on flatbed train cars, apparently heading west, toward […]

HIGHLIGHTS The legacy that the deceased Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has left differs greatly from the one he aspired to. Al-Baghdadi oversaw the widening of a rift in the jihadist movement that now often results in open combat between al Qaeda and the Islamic State. The militant leader also institutionalized sectarian attacks, the […]

Fiona Hill, the former senior director for Russian and Eurasian affairs, told lawmakers on Monday that a July meeting with Ukrainian and U.S. officials about unspecified investigations left her and John Bolton, the former national security adviser, so concerned that he directed her to alert a lawyer in the National Security Council, Fox News confirmed. Hill, who exited the administration days before the July […]

The best one could say about America’s abandonment of the Kurds is that they should have known we would sell them out eventually. Yesterday saw multiple reports of jailbreaks from Kurdish-operated prisons and camps that contained ISIS supporters. The Kurds, now battered by the full force of a Turkish invasion approved by Donald Trump, have allocated resources away from […]

Congress and the White House have a tense relationship, and future administrations might well choose to build on rather than repudiate the Trump example of how to respond to a hostile Congress. More than once since the Democrats captured the House of Representatives in the midterm elections of 2018, President Donald Trump has taken to […]