Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons In reflecting on the onset of American naval superiority, few innovations played such a pivotal role as the Essex-class carriers. The carriers…
Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons It seems like the world is always on the brink of something, and that feeling isn't just in your head. Global security…
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Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons President Donald Trump has again triggered a high-stakes fight within the defense community with a tweet that the headquarters of U.S. Space…
Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long seemed to be one of the most intractable challenges of international diplomacy—prolonged, bitter, and obstinate. Since the…
Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons Turbulence has always been inherent in air travel, something that most fliers tolerate as a common annoyance. But more recently, it has…
Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons During the early Cold War era, military invention accelerated as America and the Soviet Union competed to develop nuclear weapons that would…
Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons Military aviation has always been a field for bold experimentation—now and then visionary, sometimes downright bizarre. When hostilities erupt and innovation is…
Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons Stealth always had a kind of genius, secrecy, and outrageousness to it, and few aircraft capture all three elements of that formula…
Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons No aircraft embodies technological progress as much as the history around it as much as the North American F-100 Super Sabre. The…
Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons The Montana-class battleships are one of those intriguing "what if" tales of naval history—ambitious in conception, intimidating in size, and yet a…
Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons The Red Sea has traditionally been a hotbed of politics and trade in its hinterland, but now it's an entirely different game—real…