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REPORT: TAIWAN FIRES ITS HIMARS TOWARD THE MAINLAND — A FIRST SHOT THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
On June 10, 2026, somewhere on the western shore of Taiwan, HIMARS launchers turned their tubes toward the Taiwan Strait — toward, for the…
DECODING: BEIJING CITES SPACEX TO SOUND THE ALARM — ORBITAL MILITARIZATION IS HERE
On June 15, 2026, the PLA Daily — the official newspaper of the Chinese military, propaganda organ of the People's Republic — published two…
ANALYSIS: SIPRI 2026 — THE ERA OF DISARMAMENT IS DEAD AND NOBODY ADMITS IT
On June 8, 2026, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute published its annual yearbook — the most respected independent assessment of the global nuclear…
INVESTIGATION: NORINCO IN PARIS, THE DRAGON SELLS ITS ASSEMBLY LINE TO THE MIDDLE EAST
This may be the most unsettling scene from the fortnight that the defense world staged in Paris in June 2026. At the heart of…
REPORT: RESOLUTE DRAGON 2026, 9,600 SOLDIERS ON THE EDGE OF THE INDO-PACIFIC
On June 20, 2026, at Camp Kengun in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, Lieutenant General Seiji Toriumi, commander of the Western Army of the Japan Ground…
DECODING: CHINA'S FINLESS SUBMARINE — A WEAPON THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE EXISTED
It was a satellite image dated June 1, 2026 that triggered everything. Captured by Vantor and published by the Paris-based military maritime analysis site…
ANALYSIS: PL-16 VS AIM-260, THE MISSILE RACE REDEFINING AIR WARFARE
There was no declaration of war. No speech at the UN. No joint communiqué. There were Chinese military seminar slides that leaked online, an…
OPINION: 5% of GDP or Zero — Hegseth Rang the Bell at NATO
There was something unusual in the NATO hall in Brussels on June 18, 2026. Not the rhetoric — Alliance meetings always carry their share…
FACTCHECK: One American in Four — The Brutal Numbers of an Unpopular War
Polls have this cruelty about them: they reflect the country as it is, not as its leaders would like it to be. The Reuters/Ipsos…