Donald "Art of the Deal" Trump understands leverage — how to create advantage (real or perceived) and how to use it. Trump will, on occasion, bend to adversarial pressure (see Bond Markets) — until he ...

The Saudis are also new at this international diplomacy, and do not have a legacy of past failures or disappointments. That will change as long as the Saudis remain active in regional and global ...

ARAMCO persisted through the chaos of World War II, through the nuclear-clouded Cold War, through wretched decades of Communist, Islamo-fascist, anti-Semitic and anti-American violence. And the ...

China assumes that, after a few years of a U.S. blockade, enough nations suffering from loss of trade with China would successfully persuade the Americans to end it. This has many issues, but it ...

Another bit of good advice was to make a clean break after a war. The Americans still have over 20,000 troops in South Korea 72 years after the war ended. Over the last few decades South Korea has ...

May 25, 2025: Roscosmos, the post-Soviet Russian space program, has proved to be less effective than its Soviet predecessor. The primary problems are incompetence and corruption. One glaring example ...

A YFQ-44A production representative test vehicle is staged in a testing chamber at Costa Mesa, Calif. The YFQ-44A, developed ...

The limpet mines recently used against Russian ships do not linger. If any fall or are shaken off a ship hull, it is unlikely to do any damage in the future. The amount of explosives is small and the ...

Meanwhile the Chinese Coast Guard has received larger and more heavily armed ships than its American counterpart. Over the last decade the Chinese Coast Guard has received over a dozen new patrol ...

Currently less than ten percent of American military age men are eligible. Only about five percent of soldiers are in combat jobs, with another ten percent handling combat support. The reality is that ...

The DARPA drone is not the first. The island state of Singapore developed and built MARSEC naval drones. These 30-ton drones are 16.9 meters long with a top speed of nearly 50 kilometers an hour and ...