Tag: China

The South China Sea is among both the most heavily traversed and heavily contested waterways on the planet. With an estimated one-third of all global commerce crossing the expansive body of water at some point and significant natural resources beneath the surface, it’s no small wonder then that a nation like China, eager to exercise […]

Vice President Mike Pence addressed the Pentagon on Thursday, laying out the case, and the timeline, President Trump’s administration is setting for the establishment of a space-specific branch of the U.S. military. President Trump first directed the establishment of a Space Force in March, though the concept of placing orbital defenses in the hands of […]

Despite having the largest defense budget on the planet, the United States’ defense apparatus has recently found itself in a bit of trouble. As the U.S. devoted the vast majority of its resources to anti-terror and counter-insurgency operations for the better part of two decades, both Russia and China have been able to leverage America’s […]

The idea of space defense exploded into the public consciousness in recent months thanks in large part to President Donald Trump’s directive to establish a space-based branch of the military tasked with precisely that, but within the defense community, space has long been a concern. While the uninformed have levied debates about the militarization of […]

In March, Russian state-owned media outlets made a surprising announcement: a new documentary series had entered into production that promised to tell the story of Russian nuclear attack submarine commanders sneaking their vessels into American harbors. The story wasn’t set in some fictional “Hunt for Red October”-esque scenario, however — according to the Russians, the […]

Let’s be honest with each other — an engaging plot isn’t the first thing we think of when we’re headed to the theaters for the latest big-budget blockbuster, but it’s hard to deny that many of our summer “hits” in recent years haven’t turned out to be quite the hit that the studios would have […]

The China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, currently hard at work developing what is to be China’s third aircraft carrier, released an artist’s rendering of the forthcoming Type 002 carrier last week that gives us a glimpse into what to expect from China’s growing carrier fleet. The image, seen in the background of a presentation shared on […]

As the first nation to develop atomic weapons, the United States has long enjoyed its status as among the premier nuclear powers on the globe, second in total nuclear weapon count only to its Cold War-era competitor, Russia (formerly the Soviet Union). Within the United States, Americans tend to assume that America not only possesses […]

A 74-year old space scientist working for an arm of Russia’s civilian space agency Roscosmos is being held on treason charges following the apparent leaking of information pertaining to Russia’s ongoing hypersonic missile programs. Hypersonic missiles, or weapons capable of achieving speeds in excess of Mach 5, are nearly impossible to intercept using existing missile […]

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter may be the future of the force, but as Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force work to find ways to reduce not only procurement costs but also the immense expense associated with day to day operations, the capabilities the aircraft can bring to bear in a combat zone are […]

According to recent reports out of Russia, security personnel from the nation’s space agency Roscosmos have been cooperating with an FSB investigation into an apparent leak of information pertaining to their advanced hypersonic missile platforms to Western spies. Russia and China are currently the only national militaries with hypersonic weapons in their arsenals. Hypersonic missiles […]

The United States has a long history of internal cultural struggles. As a melting pot nation that spans across thousands of miles and encompasses hundreds of millions of individuals, our permissive form of government allows our culture to create itself through the conjoining of seemingly disparate belief systems and ideologies. This process is invariably contentious, […]