Daily Archives: Mar 18, 2026

Is the United States about to embark on its biggest combat operation in Latin America since the days of Manuel Noriega? The combination of political ultimata, naval firepower, and disputed legal pretexts has brought the U.S.–Venezuelan confrontation to unprecedented dimensions. What originated essentially as an anti-narcotics mission became a...

How extraordinary, then, that Russia should launch a major strike on western Ukraine. Until this week such events were all but unimaginable. An overnight attack on Ternopil, which killed at least 25 people, represented a dangerous escalation whose ripples spread well beyond Ukraine's borders, scrambling NATO air forces in...

“What a change from the 1984 Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October. Today, it seems more like the hunt for the nearest mechanic,” quipped NATO chief Mark Rutte earlier this year. His quip captured the mood in Western defense circles as Russia’s once-formidable Mediterranean presence unraveled. For decades,...