Whether the United States defines China as a global threat or a predominantly regional one will have pervasive implications for U.S. alliance and deterrence strategy in Europe and the Indo-Pacific. The second Trump and Biden administrations agree on a key fact: China constitutes the most serious and systemic challenge to U.S. power and interests. Yet, they seem to disagree on how to characterize the nature and scale of that challenge.
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Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of three articles on the U.S. Marine Corps. The first article was published on June 16, 2025.In just over 20 years, the Marine Corps has gone from being America’s reliable middleweight force in readiness to more of a secondary, general purpose backup force. Today, marines are more likely to find themselves assisting special operations teams and U.S. Army crisis response task forces than spearheading operations.
Footage released by the Israel Defence Forces has confirmed an air strike on Iran’s Arak heavy water nuclear reactor, located approximately 250 kilometres southwest of Tehran, in the early hours of June 19. Israel’s armed forces reported that the attack was aimed at a reactor component “intended for plutonium production,” which was “designed for the production of high-grade plutonium,” alleging that the facility posed a threat to Israeli security and had the potential to be used to create materials for an Iranian nuclear weapons program.
L Todd Wood speaks with the Terminal CWO himself, Sam Shoemate, on the corruption of the military JAG corp.
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The Israeli Defence Ministry is currently considering plans to deploy special forces to penetrate and demolish the Iranian Fordow nuclear facility, according to informed sources cited by Axios, as a consensus remains that the very heavy level of fortifications against aerial attacks will render bombing ineffective.
In the aftermath of Israel’s launch of large scale air attacks on Iran on June 13, the possibility of the Israeli Air Force’s continuing attacks causing serious damage to Iran’s nuclear infrastructure has gained growing attention from defence analysts. Although the large majority of Israeli fighters, namely its F-15s and F-16s, have relied on launching cruise and ballistic missiles into Iran from long ranges, the country’s small
Colonel Nathan McCormack, who served as the Levant and Egypt branch chief on the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been removed from his post following revelations of numerous social media posts critical of Israel and U.S. policy in the Middle East, writes JNS. Lt. Gen. Andrea Tullos joined Ryan at WOTR HQ to talk about her experience and insights into professional military education, both for the joint force and especially the Air Force. She shares what Air University, which she commands, has been doing to optimize its mission for competition with China, the pacing threat, and a high intensity fight where sanctuary areas are scarce if they exist at all. In “Top Gun: Maverick,” the Navy is tasked with destroying an underground uranium enrichment plant in an unnamed foreign country. Maverick’s plan requires two bombs to be dropped: the first to hit an exposed ventilation hatch and the second to travel down the shaft as the kill shot. This tandem strike wouldn’t be necessary if Maverick had been in the Air Force. The Air Force would have used it’s most powerful “bunker buster:” the 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator. Alexander Langlois, RealClearDefense
Operating a semi-anonymous account that still included his name, title, and photos in uniform, McCormack referred to Israeli leaders as “Judeo-supremacist cronies,” labeled Israel “a death cult,” and accused the U.S. of enabling Israeli “ethnic cleansing.
It is the most powerful bunker buster bomb in the U.S.
The operation raises more questions than answers, further highlighting the only rational path for U.S.