Summary and Key Points: Here’s a thought experiment one national security analyst can’t shake: what if the Strait of Hormuz simply stays closed — not for weeks, but until Christmas? For a month or two, reserves and rerouting paper over the damage. After that, the buffers run dry — and analysts say America hits that wall right around its 250th birthday on July 4. From there, the scenario gets stranger than a gas crisis. The fuel that does the real damage isn’t the one in your tank; it’s the one moving the nation’s food, freight, and machinery.
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Chinese state media outlets predict America’s sixth-generation fighter, the F-47, will be an expensive boondoggle, though there are signs the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is, at least at some level, taking the threat it poses seriously.
In April, the U.S. Air Force’s China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI) published a round-up of early reactions to the F-47 from official state media sources. The U.S. government considers China a rival superpower, and CASI regularly samples CCP state media to gauge how party leaders react to new information on U.S. weapon programs.
Wearing his survival suit, Ryan Shuck floated in the icy water of the Bering Sea, doing whatever he could to survive.
It wasn’t easy. Shuck struggled in the freezing water as swells up to 20 feet and snow squalls battered him. He was one of 47 people aboard the Alaska Ranger who abandoned the 189-foot-long fishing boat after it lost control of its rudder and flooded on March 23, 2008.
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Shuck didn’t have the benefit of a life raft, so he had no protection against the frigid cold or the turbulent seas.
Summary and Key Points: For one week a year, St. Petersburg belongs to Vladimir Putin — host to a glittering economic forum built to remind the world of Russia’s wealth and reach. This year, the curtain went up on a column of black smoke: hours earlier, Ukrainian drones had slammed into the city’s oil terminal, a refinery, and a naval base, the haze drifting into view of the forum itself.
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A Swedish Air Force Saab JAS 39 Gripen climbs during the 2019 Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, England, July 20, 2019.
Summary and Key Points: There’s no harder place on earth to take an honest poll than wartime Russia. Answers come wrapped in fear, censorship, and the instinct to repeat the safe official line — many Russians won’t even give their last names to a Western reporter. Which is why a recent finding from one of Russia’s most respected pollsters carries weight: by one measure, the public’s appetite for continuing the war just hit its lowest point since the invasion began in 2022.
Exclusive footage obtained by CNN and released on June 4 has shown extensive fire damage aboard the U.S. Navy’s most advanced nuclear powered supercarrier USS Gerald Ford, following a major fire that occurred when the ship was deployed to support an assault against Iran from February 28. The carrier’s fire-control system reportedly failed to operate as intended, forcing the crew to manually combat the fire. It took approximately 30 hours to fully extinguish the fire, with the incident impacting the accommodations for around 600 sailors. Although U.S.
The United States has been effectively defeated by Iran in this year’s war. US President Donald Trump has been unable to coerce acceptable terms from Tehran. Tehran continues to drag out the negotiations, insisting on conditions – such as control of the Straits of Hormuz – which Trump cannot accept because of massive political opposition back home.
Trump himself likely does not care about these details. His passion is domestic affairs and his various Washington refurbishment projects. He clearly wants to get out of the war, even claiming that he is now ‘bored’ by the whole thing.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has laid out a potential plan for the joint future development of the Su-57 fifth generation fighter by Russia and India, following multiple reports from officials in both countries that cooperation on the program is currently under negotiation. Speaking at a press conference on June 4, the president observed:
“As far as the Su-57 goes, at one point we proposed to our Indian friends to work together on this technology. It’s fifth generation technology I think it’s the best in the world as of now.
China’s plan to become a world leader in AI by 2030 is a fixture of practically every Congressional briefing and expert commentary on Beijing’s AI ambitions. The plan’s logic — introduced in 2017 — was simple and alarming: Beijing would direct capital, mobilize its firms, recruit talent, and execute with the strategic patience of a state-led innovation ecosystem. Nearly a decade later, that frame has only hardened.
The Battle of Midway has assumed a place in American naval lore that has put it on par with other great battles in world naval history. What Salamis was for the Greeks, Trafalgar for the British Royal Navy, and Tsushima for the Japanese, the clash northwest of Midway Island on June 4, 1942, represents for the U.S. Navy. It was a moment of heroism, professional skill, and victory, which came to define how the Navy viewed itself for the rest of the 20th century and beyond.Unlike those other great battles, however, Midway was a decidedly modern naval operation.