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Trump and Rubio move to dismantle National Security Council
WASHINGTON (Realist English). President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are spearheading a dramatic restructuring of the National...
Read moreTrump unveils $175 billion ‘Golden Dome’ missile shield project with U.S. allies and generals
WASHINGTON (Realist English). President Donald Trump on Tuesday formally unveiled his long-anticipated homeland missile defense initiative, dubbed "Golden Dome", a...
Read moreU.S. military shifts toward special operations model under Trump-era reforms
TAMPA (Realist English). Special operations forces are no longer a tactical niche within the U.S. military. Under reforms accelerated during...
Read moreGermany pledges 5% of GDP to defense in sharp shift under new Chancellor Merz
ANTALYA (Realist English). In a dramatic turn that stunned NATO allies, Germany’s new chancellor Friedrich Merz has committed to ramping...
Read moreAndrey Mordvichev appointed new commander of Russian Ground Forces
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Colonel General Andrey Mordvichev as the new Commander-in-Chief of the Ground...
Read moreMacron signals openness to stationing French nuclear weapons abroad
PARIS (Realist English). French President Emmanuel Macron has announced his readiness to initiate formal discussions with European allies about the...
Read moreTroy Meink confirmed as Air Force secretary amid scrutiny over SpaceX ties
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Troy Meink as the new Secretary of the Air Force in...
Read morePentagon to cut top generals by 20% under Hegseth’s reform directive
WASHINGTON (Realist English). U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered a 20% reduction in the number of four-star generals...
Read moreU.S. Army halts Gray Eagle drone purchases in shift toward next-generation warfare
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The U.S. Army will end procurement of its MQ-1C Gray Eagle armed drones as part of a...
Read moreGerasimov confirms DPRK participation in the liberation of Kursk region
MOSCOW (Realist English). Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov officially confirmed the participation of...
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Iran war exposes global reliance on fragile energy routes
LONDON (Realist English). The war involving Iran has exposed the global economy’s dependence on vulnerable fossil fuel supply routes, intensifying...
Taiwan fears US weapons use in Iran could aid China
TAIPEI (Realist English). Taiwan has raised concerns that extensive US use of long-range cruise missiles in the war involving Iran...
Strait of Hormuz disruption sends shockwaves through global trade
LONDON (Realist English). Escalating military tensions around the Strait of Hormuz are rapidly disrupting global shipping and energy markets, as...
Iran war puts Vice President JD Vance in difficult political position
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The ongoing war with Iran has placed US Vice President JD Vance in a politically sensitive position,...
Star Wars without fiction: how space became the next battlefield
MOSCOW (Realist English). “Star Wars” stopped being science fiction long ago. Unfortunately, over ten thousand years of civilisation, humanity has...
Dadivank: The Legacy of Christ’s Apostles in Artsakh
YEREVAN (Realist English). In Artsakh, before the ethnic cleansing and forced deportation – simply put, genocide – carried out by...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
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