Coverage of military operations, weapons systems, defense strategy, and armed forces developments across major world powers and regional conflicts.
Washington is preparing to move most of its MQ-9 Reaper drones from Africa to South America for counter-drug work. It is the Donroe Doctrine in hardware: a coalition of fourteen governments, joint operations with Ecuador, a new hard line in Bogotá, and a Secretary of State who found willing allies instead of creating them.
Is Spain a ruined country? Trump's four words to GB News stand on a hard record: a NATO ally paying not even half the agreed target, an immigration system buried under 1.17 million amnesty applications, the Ceuta border collapse, and a navy losing much of its future aviation over the F-35. The numbers say the warning is deserved.
The Financial Times exposed C430L, a covert program in which Russia's top missile engineers help Iran build supersonic cruise missiles designed to threaten US warships. Russia arming Iran means two wars are merging into one axis, while American interceptor stockpiles shrink and China watches for a window of opportunity on Taiwan.
The Indo-Pacific alliance is no longer a theory: Japan sells 11 Mogami frigates to Australia, the first Japanese F-35s fly over Darwin, and AUKUS submarines will operate from Western Australia in 2027. From Tokyo to Canberra, the free world is arming while America leads, and the think tanks agree the strategy is finally working.
China Naval Expansion is reshaping the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific. China is rapidly expanding its navy and shipbuilding capacity while the United States retains key advantages in nuclear-powered carriers and global experience. The challenge is whether America can sustain its long-term maritime edge.
The Germany rearmament crisis deepened this week: 5,862 Germans applied for conscientious objector status in 2026, more than all of last year, while only 530 volunteered out of 300,000 registered. See the numbers and how Poland and the Baltics spend far more of their economies on defense, while Berlin still struggles to fill its ranks.
The Pentagon has studied real military options against Cuba, including an air assault by the 101st Airborne Division. The Cuba military threat is no longer theory: 300 Russian and Iranian drones, advisers from Tehran in Havana, and China's protection. We report the facts, then evaluate the reasons and consequences of US action.
The US missile shortage is real. America fired half its THAAD and Patriot interceptors and 30 percent of its Tomahawks in just weeks of war, but factories only replace 15 Tomahawks and 20 Patriots a month. Congress stalls new funding while China quietly expands its own missile stockpile by 50 percent in just four years.
The NATO summit in Ankara revealed the West's uncomfortable secret: everyone knows Turkey is unreliable, yet Trump and Europe still courted Erdogan for two days. Trump offered to lift S-400 sanctions and mulled F-35 sales, alarming Israel and Greece, while Europe chased energy routes and migration control through Turkish territory.
Iran's attacks in Hormuz on three tankers triggered a powerful American military response on July 7, with U.S. airstrikes hitting Iranian ports, air defenses, and missile sites. The Department of the Treasury also revoked Iran's oil sale license, cutting off Tehran's main revenue, testing Trump's peace through strength doctrine weeks after the ceasefire.
The new military headquarters of Egypt, called the Octagon, is now the largest military complex on Earth, bigger than the U.S. Pentagon and the size of Lisbon. While Sisi celebrates the fortress, poor Egyptians ask why, and Coptic Christians still wait for protection from persecution amid Turkey drills, Russian missiles, and Israel's cold peace.
The Founders were not isolationists. They were global traders who guarded their political sovereignty jealously. Washington, Jefferson, and Monroe built a foreign policy compass that still points true 250 years later. From the Barbary Coast to the Strait of Hormuz, the principles endure. Founders foreign policy and America First share the same principles, separated only by history.
