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Originally conceived as part of President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, space-based missile interceptors are back in vogue with the initiation of the Trump…
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Though some barracks funding has been diverted to border operations this year, a new task force will have 30 days to come up with new proposals to address substandard…
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To listen to some of the critics of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s September 30, 2025, speech to our military’s senior leadership, it is clear many of these critics willfully…
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization convened for its 25th summit in Tianjin on Sept. 1, the largest gathering of leaders in the organization’s history. More than 20 state leaders and heads of 10 international organizations attended the summit, including an unprecedented four-day visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the participation by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which was not expected until the recent cooling of U.S.-Indian relations.
For decades, predictions about a war with Iran carried an air of inevitability: Analysts warned a conflict would close the ranks of the Iranian military and political elite, unite the Iranian people behind the regime, unleash the vengeance Tehran foretold, set the Middle East ablaze, sending oil prices to the roof, and even ignite a world war.And yet, literally none of this happened.Instead, the 12-Day War pitting Israel, and later the United States, against Iran exposed just how brittle those assumptions were.
Following confirmation that the U.S. Space Force has released of a Request for Prototype Proposal for the Space-Based Interceptor program, which is intended to develop the world’s first Earth orbiting missile system designed to shoot down enemy ballistic missiles, serious questions have been raised regarding its implications for the strategic balance of power.
L Todd Wood and Pete Blaber discuss Trump’s reported decision to give Ukraine Tomahawk cruise missiles.
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The United States Space Force has taken a first major step towards developing its Space-Based Interceptor program, with the release of a Request for Prototype Proposal seeking multiple industry partners to pursue design work and deliver functional systems. The program is part of broader investments to develop the world’s largest layered missile defence systems, with space base systems being intended to orbit the earth to detect and destroy ballistic missiles at earlier stages than land-based systems can.