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Operation Midnight Hammer struck Iran's key nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan using B-2s and Tomahawk cruise missiles. This effort aimed to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities, but ...

Major General Fran Mahon retired from the U.S. Army after 34 years of service and is an independent consultant in the aerospace and defense arena. A career air and missile defense officer, he has ...

The Russian economy has lived many lives since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. After the initial shock of the invasion wore off, the country experienced a dramatic sugar high thanks to historic ...

Russia has performed poorly on the battlefield in Ukraine and will likely hit the 1 million casualty mark in the summer of 2025. New CSIS data details Russia's slow rate of advance, heavy losses of ...

On April 24, President Trump announced an executive order to pursue the exploration and exploitation of deep-sea minerals within the outer continental shelf as well as in areas beyond national ...

Newly proposed tariffs threaten to derail the United States’ clean energy sector’s recent boom, jeopardizing progress, and grid reliability while failing to expand domestic clean tech manufacturing ...

Introduction On April 2, 2025—a date President Trump proclaimed “Liberation Day”—the administration announced the most sweeping tariff hike since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the 1930 law best ...

Since January 2025, a series of attacks have targeted Tesla facilities and vehicles across the United States, bringing renewed attention to a long-standing debate among policymakers, scholars, and law ...

China is leveraging its globally dominant commercial shipbuilding industry to support its naval modernization—and foreign companies are inadvertently helping. This report outlines how the United ...

“The U.S. possesses all components across the full AI stack, including advanced semiconductor design, frontier algorithms, and, of course, transformational applications. Now the computing power this ...

Anniversaries, even those as somber as today’s, offer a crucial opportunity for reflection. As we mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it is essential to assess how ...