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Air Force Crisis: U.S. Pilots Aren’t Confident They Can Defeat China The present crisis has its roots in the period of relative geopolitical calm that followed the end of the Cold War Heres What You Need to Remember: “In a way, China and Russia have rendered the U.S. military a service through their prowess and sheer cheek. Formidable competitors are compelling U.S. fighting forces to survey the tactical and strategic environment anew, sharpen their skills, and fortify their nerves.” A p...

Iran is continuing to develop increasingly long-range ballistic missiles -- and is firing some shorter-range missiles in combat. Heres What You Need to Remember: If the Trump administration truly wanted a diplomatic deal to curtail Irans missiles, it wouldnt have torn up the JCPOA. The administration wants fewer arms-control regimes, even if rolling back decades of painstakingly-negotiated agreements means a much greater risk of an out-of-control arms race that could end with nuclear war. Iran...

The May tests of at least one apparently nuclear-capable short-range missile startled foreign observers and threatened to elevate tensions between the United States and its allies South Korea and Japan on one side and, on the other side, North Korea and its main patron China.

Russia Wants More Stealth Fighters, But There’s a Problem Speaking on May 15, 2019, Putin said the Kremlin would buy scores of Su-57s over the next eight years. If Putin is serious and the Russian defense ministry follows through on the pledge, Russia soon could possess a meaningful number of stealth fighters. Heres What You Need to Remember: Buying into the Su-57 program won’t magically solve the program’s problems. The Su-57 is an immature design whose production line is small and ineff...

Tensions have escalated in the Persian Gulf region in the aftermath of U.S. president Donald Trump’s decision unilaterally to withdraw the United States from the agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear program.

U.S. lawmakers passed a bill specifically banning any trade in Tomcat components to Iran or any other entity, and then-president George W. Bush signed the law in 2008.

Not if the United States has anything to say about it. Heres What You Need To Remember: In 2019 China was still in phase one. But phase two is looming as China’s economy expands and Chinese technology improves, in part owing to widespread industrial espionage. Chinese leaders have laid out a plan for deploying the world’s best-armed forces no later than 2049. If the United States is to prevent China from becoming the world’s leading military power, it needs a plan of its own. That’s th...

There's an urgent need for something of this caliber. 

The U.S. Navy recognizes that it has a problem.

Most American F-16s for decades have worn a mostly light-gray paint scheme. Since around 2012, however, the Air Force under the Have Glass V initiative slowly has been applying a new, single-tone, dark-gray livery to some F-16s.