Deep within the massive, modular bays of General Dynamics Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, CT, an extraordinary reawakening of the nation’s submarine-building efforts is underway to secure the world’s deep blue oceans.
For decades, the United States has held undisputed command below the waves, leveraging a sophisticated nuclear-powered submarine force that remains the most technologically advanced and acoustically silent weapon system on Earth. During its peak in the 1980s, Electric Boat’s roughly 25,000 workers were producing three Los Angeles-class submarines a year.
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The Russian man on the street is perplexed and afraid. The citizens were always told that the “special military operation” would be short and sweet.
The invasion against the “Nazis” was sure to be decisive with a clear victory.
A soldier from the Idaho Army National Guard, Charlie Company, 2-116th Combined Arms Battalion, 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team makes Idaho National Guard history with the first firing of a Javelin anti-tank missile.
An attack on the western Russian city of Lipetsk has raised the curtain again on a major steel plant that is not only vital to Moscow’s missile industry but has also been linked to top Russian oligarchs.
The plant is also reported to be Russia’s only producer of electrical steel and had been supplying steel to European customers during the first three years of the Ukraine-Russia war, as its products were not under sanctions.
Tu-160 Bomber. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Russian Air Force Bomber Tu-160. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
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For three straight days, Russia has been striking Ukrainian gas facilities in Kharkiv Oblast belonging to Naftogaz, Ukraine’s state-run oil and gas operator, Ukrayinska Pravda reported, citing Telegram posts from the company. Those posts included video of the aftermath of one of the blasts.
The first of those attacks, a “large-scale drone attack” on July 17, represented the 250th attack on Naftogaz’s facilities since the start of the war, the report said.
Tu-160M Bombers from Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
The military campaign between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran has entered a terrifying new phase, in which the Strait of Hormuz (SoH) is now the primary theater of conflict.
Whereas at the start of the war, Washington was concerned over the potential threat that an Iranian nuclear weapons capability posed, as well as the desire to overthrow the Islamic Republic and replace it with something friendlier to US and Israeli interests, everything now appears to center on whether the Americans can restore the 140 ships per day traffic that once defined the SoH before the war.
Both sides in the Ukraine War have experienced rapid, radical technological developments of the kind that would have been impossible without the conflict erupting in 2022. Today, that war has entered a new phase entirely.
After years of relying heavily on relatively slow, propeller-driven Shahed attack drones (courtesy of Iran), Moscow is now deploying large numbers of jet-powered variants.
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The U.S. war with Iran has had political, economic, and military implications that spread far beyond the Middle East. We asked five experts to assess how the war with Iran has affected U.S. bilateral relations with key countries that illustrate some of the global ramifications: South Korea, India, Ukraine, France, and the United Kingdom.Read more below. Jenny Town Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and the Director of 38 NorthSouth Korea has resisted aiding U.S.
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says intelligence shared at NATO indicates that China privately urged Russia not to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
China’s request was reportedly delivered after Russian nuclear rhetoric spiked in response to Ukraine’s expanding and persistent long-range drone campaign.
Poland has issued warnings that Russia may conduct false flag operations by launching a swarm of captured Ukrainian drones into Polish and NATO airspace.
According to RMF24, Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski confirmed that intelligence indicates Russia has captured a significant number of Ukrainian drones.
An AH-64 “Apache” attack helicopter assigned to 1st Battalion, 211th Aviation Regiment, flies overhead during Training Exercise Hydra on Utah Test and Training Range, Utah, May 7, 2025.