Aircraft carriers were the backbone of naval air power during World War II. This footage shows the intense reality pilots faced as they returned from combat, including a dramatic crash landing as a ...

But on Tuesday, the DOD acknowledged that at least 140 service members have been wounded by Iranian retaliation attacks since the war started 10 days ago, according to Sean Parnell, a Pentagon ...

Strategic bombing with conventional weapons, like the United States is doing in Iran, has never forced unconditional ...

Information warfare is also promising. Many political parties in Europe are pro-Russian and eager to see a negotiated peace in Ukraine. That would end the billions of dollars’ worth of military and ...

Wars can be viewed by historians later, but while they are raging and facts and lies compete for attention, it’s hard to understand what’s happening.

Noah Smith warns the world may be edging closer to World War III amid fallout from the Iran War and rising tensions between China and Taiwan, likening current risks to conditions seen in the 1930s. He ...

Global arms flows are surging to Cold War levels, fuelled by European rearmament and the war in Ukraine. Ukraine, Poland, and the Czech Republic are reshaping Europe’s defence landscape, while a ...

Experts say Iran’s vast, mountainous terrain would make invasion difficult but a small, precise mission is possible.

Kenneth Walsh worked up a tactical doctrine for the Vought F4U-1 - and put it to the test.

President Donald Trump’s top aides are already scripting a victory narrative in Iran for the inevitable day when he tries to extricate himself from the war.

The great irony, however, is that the LUCAS drone is based on Iran’s own low-cost one-way attack drone, the Shahed-136. In May 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump publicly praised the Iranian drones as ...

And now, Iran has begun mining the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump simultaneously denied this on Truth Social and threatened that “military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before” ...