The United States is now enmeshed in so many conflicts that its foreign policy is closer to “world police” than “America ...

The draining of U.S. missile stockpiles poses a serious problem for national security. In choosing this conflict with Iran, ...

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The American failure to adopt lessons from the war in Ukraine extends across administrations and political parties when it comes to both producing attack drones and developing the means to protect U.S ...

K risti Noem played “Hot Mama” as the walk-up song for her formal introduction at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters in January 2025. President Trump had put her in charge of his ...

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Polymarket and Kalshi promise the wisdom of the crowds. They deliver something very different.

Enrigue’s Now I Surrender scraps the simplistic binary of cowboys and Indians in favor of a wild, multifaceted war story.

For example, at least six U.S. soldiers died, and others were wounded, in an Iranian strike Sunday on a command facility in Kuwait. CNN reported that the Americans received no warning of the incoming ...