Daily Archives: Mar 17, 2026

The simple math is unsustainable-shoot down a $10,000 drone with a $500,000 missile, and repeat hundreds of times. But more to the point, it's strategically perilous. A series of incidents involving Russian UAV incursions has laid bare a critical chink in the armor: NATO remains wedded to Cold War-era...

Could a single precision strike take out the cornerstone of an adversary's air defense network? Suggesting it can, Ukraine's recent destruction of the Russian S-400 launcher in occupied Crimea has much to say about the shifting battlefield dynamics. It wasn't an ordinary tactical feat but rather a well-placed hit...

"The military presence in the Caribbean is too big for just hitting a few speedboats," Elliott Abrams told CNN. That observation captures the essence of the latest U.S. naval maneuver the arrival of the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group in waters near Venezuela. The deployment constitutes a...