The New Missile Gap

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In 1958 Senator John F. Kennedy, getting ready for his upcoming presidential campaign, said the United States faced a serious and dangerous missile gap. The Senator, later President, said: “The Soviet Union

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Rope-a-Dope in Oman

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Special Ambassador Steve Witkoff no doubt talked to President Trump about the US-Iran meeting in Oman. We don’t have a special wiretap on his call to the President, but it is a

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Copying the Enemy

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Activist groups in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are crowdfunding Fiber Optic drones for Ukraine. The locally built drones, using 3D printing for the airframe, are reverse engineered copies of Russian Fiber

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For Iran, No Libya Scenario

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The Trump administration has fundamentally changed direction on Iran. US NATO Ambassador Matt Whitaker says the US will not try and force regime change in Iran, suggesting that “we don’t want another

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A Tank for the Last War

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The US is aggressively promoting its new, so far untested, prototype tank, the M1E3. The Army says it is revolutionary, takes advantage of the latest technology, and solves the problems encountered in

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