Commentary / World Jan 26, 2016

Russia learns stealth warplanes are hard to do

While the U.S. is building up its fleet of stealth warplanes, financial circumstances have prompted Russia to buy greater numbers of cheaper, non-stealthy jet fighters.

Commentary / World Oct 6, 2015

U.S., Russia prep for Arctic warfare

Russia and the U.S. are training thousands of ground troops for Arctic ops — just in case the Cold War turns hot in the thawing polar region.

Commentary / World Jul 16, 2015

Why you'll always lose wars with drones alone

How can the U.S. government truly know whether it's winning the war against Islamic State if it doesn't know for sure who or what it's bombing?

Commentary / World Jun 29, 2015

China is far from ready to meet the U.S. on a global battlefront

The U.S. projects power worldwide, but in the only region where China's actions pose a serious threat to U.S. interests — the Western Pacific — it struggles to maintain a position of strength.

Commentary / World Mar 31, 2015

Why arming U.S. allies can be like sending weapons to the enemy

There are two ways the U.S. can arm an ally such as the Kurds. It can donate, or sell cheap, the latest U.S.-made weaponry. Or it can send foreign-made weaponry — Russian usually — through a middleman.

Commentary / World Feb 25, 2015

Huge aircraft carrier beyond Russia's capability

A quarter-century after the Soviet Union's collapse, Russia lacks the money, expertise and industrial capacity to build aircraft carriers.

Commentary / World Jul 20, 2014

Big budget F-35 fighter 'can't turn, can't climb, can't run'

The U.S. military recently grounded all of its new F-35 Joint Strike Fighters after one caught fire on a runway. There is reason to worry that basic design flaws vex what is on track to become the military's most numerous warplane.