Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

Charles Mitchell

US Military’s First Direct Strike on Drug Vessel Redefines Maritime Rules

Was this the instant when America rejected decades of maritime law enforcement tradition for high-seas military intervention? The sinking of a Venezuelan ship in the south Caribbean by American forces killing 11 suspected members of the Tren de Aragua gang has not only raised Washington's counter-narcotics profile but also...
Charles Mitchell

YF-23’s Stealth Legacy and the Navy’s F/A-XX Gamble

How can a fighter plane that lost a contest thirty years ago continue to influence the most fiercely debated naval aviations program of the present? The reason is that the YF-23 Black Widow II represented a one-of-a-kind combination of stealth lines, range, and supercruise effectiveness requirements that can still...
James Thompson

Manhattan-Sized Interstellar Visitor Spurs Hunt for Possible Alien Probes

Might a comet from a distant star system be bearing technology not of this world? Once the subject of the margins of speculative science, that is the question now being asked in public by a sitting congressman and one of the world's best-known astrophysicists. They're concerned with 3I/ATLAS a...