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+ Antiwar: NATO, More Militarism No Defense Against US Expansionists—Reprinted from Yves Engler’s website. If you believe Donald Trump might invade you should be calling for Canada to withdraw from NATO. The alliance wo...
+ Antiwar: Will China Seal Zelensky’s Fate?—Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. Adam Entous’ “blockbuster” New York Times report confirmed what only a few of us reported only week...
+ Defense Breaking: A non-American as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO? That’d be ‘problematic,’ Cavoli says—U.S. Army Gen. Christopher G. Cavoli, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe and commander of U.S. European Command, and U.S. Ambassador to Moldova Kent ...
+ Defense Breaking: Australia, Canada should build out polar partnership—U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw breaks ice in Whitefish Bay, Mich., in support of Operation Spring Breakout, March 16, 2009. Spring Breakout encompas...
+ Defense Breaking: Space Force’s Saltzman: US national security space policy ‘lagging’ needs—Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman testifying to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, April 3, 2025. (Screengrab) WASHIN...
+ Defense Breaking: CSO Saltzman: US national security space policy ‘lagging’ needs—Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman testifying to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, April 3, 2025. (Screengrab) WASHIN...
+ Defense Breaking: Rafael’s Typhoon 30mm gun confronts drone threats on new modular platform—The Typhoon 30mm gun mounted on a 20-foot modular platform during a test in February. A radar and electro-optic are also deployed on the same platform...
+ Defense Breaking: DARPA adds 18 companies to spooky science Quantum Benchmarking Initiative—Abstract image of circuit board and CPU generated ai brain. (Getty) WASHINGTON — DARPA is dramatically expanding its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative ...
+ Defense Breaking: Colombia picks Saab Gripen for next fighter jet—A Saab JAS-39C Gripen flies at Airpower 24 on September 7, 2024 in Zeltweg, Austria. (Mario Skraban/Getty Images) Stockholm — A letter of intent has ...
+ Defense Breaking: India to double Hanwha self-propelled howitzer buy, will manufacture locally—The K9 Howitzer and K10 Ammunition Resupply Vehicle is featured in a promotional photo from Hanwha Aerospace. (Hanwha) SYDNEY — South Koreas Hanwha A...
+ Defense Breaking: Elevating the mission by modernizing the E-2D to keep threats at bay—Over the 17-year life of the E-2s latest iteration, Northrop Grumman has delivered five major updates. (Northrop Grumman photo) How many aircraft can...
+ Defense Breaking: Counterspace capabilities advancing around the globe: Secure World Foundation—Artists rendering of satellites orbiting Earth. (Getty) WASHINGTON — Perhaps the most telling indicator of how far and how fast space attack capabili...
+ Defense Breaking: As tariffs loom, HII’s Kastner confident in company’s American supply chain—HII President Chris Kastner greets interns at HI-PIC, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, in Honolulu. (Photo by Marco Garcia courtesy of HII) WASHINGTON — HII Pr...
+ Defense Breaking: DoD floats 2035 as goal for zero trust in weapons systems—Chief of the Department of Defense Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office Randy Resnick. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jack Sanders) WASHIN...
+ Defense Breaking: America’s arsenal is failing. We need an industrial mobilization board now.—Stock photo of a production line manager. (Getty/Vithun Khamsong) If our country fails to deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan — or worse — loses to Ch...
+ Defense Breaking: Lebanon and Syria’s plan to formalize borders a ‘positive’ step, needs follow-through: Experts—The Syrian Defense Ministry dispatch reinforcement convoys, consisting of dozens of military vehicles, to the border line following the killing of 3 o...
+ Defense Breaking: An innovation imperative: Advancing the next generation of solid rocket motors—Image: Courtesy of L3Harris Technologies. Defending U.S. and allied warfighters against an increasingly sophisticated array of drones and airborne th...
+ Defense Breaking: India puts Metrea on contract for commercial air refueling, invests in helicopters—Metrea refueled German Typhoons during the Pacific Skies exercise in 2024. (Metrea) WASHINGTON — New Delhi has put private American firm Metrea under...
+ Defense Breaking: Philippines cleared to buy F-16s at estimated $5.6B—An F-16C Fighting Falcon flies over Afghanistan after an in-air refueling mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, July 22, 2014. (U.S. Air F...
+ Defense Breaking: Finland pledges defense spending increase to 3 percent GDP by 2029—Finnish soldiers take part in the Arrow 22 exercise at the Niinisalo garrison in Kankaanpää, western Finland (AFP via Getty Images) BELFAST — Citing ...
+ Defense Breaking: NORTHCOM commander: ‘Strong concern’ spectrum auctioning could jeopardize Golden Dome —Gen. Gregory M. Guillot, commander of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, testifies before the House Armed Services Co...
+ Defense Breaking: If annual appropriations are dead, it’s an opportunity for defense—On March 11, 2024 the Pentagon and military services presented their fiscal year 2025 budget requests. (Graphic by Breaking Defense, original images c...
+ Defense One: How China is expanding its anti-satellite arsenal—China is rapidly building out its arsenal of counterspace weapons: everything from ground-based lasers to satellites that can grab other satellites, a...
+ Defense One: Navy expands use of AI for target spotting, tracking—Next year, two U.S. warships are slated to get a prototype AI-powered system designed to filter their sensor data for potential targets—and then...
+ Defense One: A shipbuilder leans into lasers and emerging tech—The nation’s largest shipbuilder is eyeing steady growth in its emerging technologies business this year, keeping up with the Defense Department...
+ Defense One: The D Brief: More WH Signal chats; Trump’s tariffs skip Russia; NSC departures?; Simulating budget choices; And a bit more.—White House’s Signal use widens National security adviser Mike Waltz set up at least 20 Signal group chats to discuss global hot spots, people ...
+ Defense One: Denmark's naval modernization plan reflects threats from Russia, US—Denmarks Defense Ministry made waves with its March 30 announcement of an ambitious naval plan that aims to buy at least 26 new ve...
+ Defense One: We tried ‘fighting China’ with lower budgets. It didn’t go well.—By month’s end, Congressional leaders expect the Trump administration to release a “skinny budget” containing topline spending amoun...
+ Global Research: Iran Lacks the Leverage for a Fair Deal with the US—Iranian-US tensions are boiling after Trump threatened to bomb Iran following its rejection of direct talks over a new nuclear deal. He also ordered...
+ Global Research: America’s “Humanitarian Wars” against Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Palestine—The post Americas Humanitarian Wars against Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Palestine appeared first on Global Research. [Category: English, Mo...
+ Global Research: Alemanha agindo de forma irresponsável ao enviar tropas para a Lituânia.—A Alemanha está avançando com seu processo de remilitarização em meio a tensões contínuas com a Federação Russa. Pela primeira vez desde a Segunda Gue...
+ Global Research: Diplomatas europeus pedem congelamento contínuo de ativos russos.—Os países europeus continuam a fazer lobby pelo roubo de dinheiro russo. Em um movimento recente, os líderes diplomáticos europeus expressaram sua int...
+ Global Research: Ucrânia não deverá realizar eleições em breve.—Aparentemente, o regime de Kiev está planejando tirar sua máscara democrática e admitir sua natureza autoritária adiando o processo eleitoral novament...
+ Global Research: Trump’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Nominee Lt. General Caine Wants to Increase the Number of Countries “Hosting U.S. Nuclear Weapons”—For over 60 years, the United States has been implementing the so-called nuclear sharing policy with various NATO member states. One of the earliest a...
+ Global Research: New York Times Exposes US and Ukrainian Officers Working “Side by Side” to Plan Kyiv’s Counteroffensives—Donald Trump has never been one to mince words, and his approach to the conflict in Ukraine has stirred a predictable storm of criticism. Pundits and ...
+ Global Research: Trump’s “Additional Measures to Combat Antisemitism”: The U.S. Has Become a Two-Tier Country. Philip Giraldi—I recently read an article by investigative historian Eric Zuesse, author of America’s Empire of Evil, that began “One of the core features of nazis...
+ Global Research: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The EU’s Struggles Against Trump’s Tariff Offensive—The European Union (EU) is facing an unprecedented economic and geopolitical squeeze, largely driven by the aggressive trade policies of the U.S. Pres...
+ Global Research: Serbia-Hungary Signs Military Agreement in Response to Croatia’s Tripartite Pact—Hungary and Serbia signed a military agreement following the joint declaration of cooperation on defense by Albania, Croatia, and Kosovo on March 18 i...
+ Global Research: Tensions Escalate as US, Turkey, Israel Race to Carve Up Syria—The tragedy of Syria is a message to the whole world of how the political Wests aggression can destroy an entire nation and push what was once a civil...
+ Global Research: Yemen Is Acting Responsibly to Stop Genocide and the U.S. Is Bombing Them for It—The U.S. is bombing Yemen because Yemen is acting, as required by international law, to stop the genocide and unlawful siege in Palestine. This is n...
+ Global Research: Environmental Justice Organizations Must Join the Call for a Militarism-Free Future: “The US Military is The World’s Largest Institutional Polluter”—As the world braces for another Earth Day, the environmental justice movement is at a critical juncture. While much of the climate conversation contin...
+ Global Research: Israel’s Genocide Has Killed More Journalists Than WWI and WWII Combined—More journalists have been killed in Israel’s genocide in Gaza than in the past seven major U.S.-involved wars combined, marking the “worst ever confl...
+ Global Research: Video: 80 Years After Hiroshima, Should U.S. President Have Authority to Launch Nuclear Attack?—[This video was published by PBS in August 2020.] On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic weapon on Hiroshima, Japan. Eighty ...
+ Global Research: Trump: “Very Bad Things Are Going to Happen.” Netanyahu Wants the U.S. to Destroy Iran—In my article, “The High Price of War with Iran: $10 Gas and the Collapse of the U.S. Economy,” I reminded readers of how Prime Minister Benjamin Neta...
+ Global Research: The Western World Has Abandoned Democracy. Paul C. Roberts—Once upon a time political establishments would focus on defeating their opponent/challenger in elections. Now they imprison them or stop them from ru...
+ Global Research: Trump’s “Reciprocal Tariffs” Escalate Economic War Against the World—It has been driven forward by two interconnected objectives. On the economic front, it seeks to extract hundreds of billions of dollars in tariff hike...
+ Global Research: Selected Articles: Timeline to COVID Tyranny – The Year 2019 and the Coming Storm—Timeline to COVID Tyranny – The Year 2019 and the Coming Storm By Michael Bryant, April 02, 2025 Appreciating the full impact of the covid “shock an...
+ Global Research: Calls on Serbs to React: Time to Demand the Closure of the Bondsteel Military Base in Kosovo! Michel Chossudovsky—Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Ottawa and founder of the Centre for Research on Globalization, Michel Chossudovsky, on the occas...
+ Military Watch: Russia is Expanding the Su-35 Fighter’s Production Scale: Two Reasons Why—<p >Following the <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russian-air-force-receives-new-su35-fighters-growin...
+ Understanding War: Iran Update March 25, 2025—Katherine Wells, Ria Reddy, Kelly Campa, Andie Parry, Carolyn Moorman, Annika Ganzeveld, Ben Rezaei, Siddhant Kishore, Avery Borens, Alexis Thomas, an...
+ Understanding War: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 25, 2025—Christina Harward, Nicole Wolkov, Davit Gasparyan, Daria Novikov, George Barros with Nate TrotterMarch 25, 2025, 6:50 pm ETClick here to see...
+ Understanding War: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 24, 2025— Christina Harward, Angelica Evans, Grace Mappes, Olivia Gibson,Daria Novikov, and George Barros with Nate TrotterMarch 24, 2025, 5:15pm ET Click...
+ Understanding War: Iran Update March 24, 2025— Katherine Wells, Carolyn Moorman, Ria Reddy, Ben Rezaei, Annika Ganzeveld, Johanna Moore, Alexandra Braverman, Kelly Campa, Siddhant Kishore,A...
+ Understanding War: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 29, 2025—Angelica Evans, Davit Gasparyan, Olivia Gibson, Daria Novikov, and George Barros with Nate Trotter and William RunkelMarch 29, 2025, 6:00 pm ETClick&n...
+ Understanding War: Iran Update March 28, 2025—Ria Reddy, Katherine Wells, Carolyn Moorman, Alexandra Braverman, Kelly Campa, Siddhant Kishore, Johanna Moore, Ben Rezaei, Parker Hempel, Rose Goldst...
+ Understanding War: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 28, 2025—Angelica Evans, Olivia Gibson, Davit Gasparyan, Christina Harward, Grace Mappes, and George Barros with William RunkelMarch 28, 2025, 5:15 pm ETClick&...
+ Understanding War: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 2, 2025— Angelica Evans, Christina Harward, Daria Novikov, Anna Harvey, and George Barros with Nate Trotter and William RunkelApril 2, 2025, 6:15 pm ETNo...
+ Understanding War: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 23, 2025—Grace Mappes, Olivia Gibson, Christina Harward, and George Barroswith William RunkelMarch 23, 2025, 4:30 pm ETClick here to see ISW’s intera...
+ Understanding War: Iran Update April 2, 2025—Ria Reddy, Katherine Wells, Alexandra Braverman, Andie Parry, Ben Rezaei, Carolyn Moorman, George Ekmekjian, Faris Almaari, and Brian CarterInformat...