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As Irans nuclear program has developed, the Bush administration appeared to draw a red line: a nuclear weapons-capable Islamic Republic would be unacceptable. On August 8, 2004, for example, then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told NBC News

Iranian-backed militants used drones to kill three U.S. servicemembers in Jordan while wounding 25 more.

The White House's prospects in the Middle East should generate a sense of urgency on Capitol Hill for finally tackling war powers reform.

A force of 100 Marines, newly trained by Navy personnel, stand ready to respond, if ordered, to provide armed security aboard foreign commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, USNI has learned. The Marines are members of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) embarked on the three-ship Bataan Amphibious Ready Group. They were […]

Moscow used to bang shoes to get attention. Now it blows up grain warehouses.

Moscow used to bang shoes to get attention. Now it blows up grain warehouses.

Let's have a look at some of the legendary ships that the US had throughout history.

The supertanker Bridgeton—formerly the Kuwaiti tanker al-Rekkah—was the first ship to receive a U.S. escort.

It would not be painless, quick, or easy.

Tanker War: Iran Lost Big When It Took on the U.S. Navy The narrow straits of the Persian Gulf had become a shooting gallery due to the Iran-Iraq War, still raging seven years after Iraq’s surprise invasion of Iran in 1980. Heres What You Need To Remember: The Tanker War demonstrated how Iran could retaliate against foreign pressure through calibrated, and semi-deniable attacks on the valuable shipping passing through the narrow waters of the Gulf—even though the campaign failed to inflict...