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Pentagon’s new drone program aims to match battlefield speed with real-time innovation
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The U.S. Department of Defense has launched an ambitious new program designed to dramatically speed up the...
Read moreU.S. Army develops virtual drone training to keep pace with battlefield demands
WIESBADEN (Realist English). As unmanned systems take center stage in modern warfare, U.S. Army units are racing to create effective...
Read moreHegseth outlines U.S. Indo-Pacific vision, warns of China threat at Shangri-La Dialogue
SINGAPORE (Realist English). U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered a forceful address at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, setting...
Read moreChina’s Lhasa destroyer enters next-gen warfare era with airborne radar integration
BEIJING (Realist English). China has unveiled a major leap in its naval warfare capability, confirming that its most advanced destroyer,...
Read moreTrump 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...
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Iran slams Netanyahu over missile remarks, calls Israel’s war aims a failure
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has sharply rebuked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, declaring that Tel Aviv...
Gen X poised for major inheritance boom amid record baby boomer wealth transfers
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Members of Generation X — those currently aged 45 to 60 — are expected to benefit from...
Erdoğan hails ‘new page in history’ as Kurdish militants begin disarmament
ANKARA (Realist English). Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared the beginning of a new era as militants from the outlawed...
FBI launches criminal investigation into former CIA and FBI chiefs over 2016 Russia probe
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened criminal investigations into former CIA Director John Brennan and former...
Roman Starovoit and the collapse of a technocratic glossy dream
MOSCOW (Realist English). I can’t stop thinking about the story of Roman Starovoit. If you think about it, the former...
Bezos’s Venetian wedding: a manifesto of new feudalism
VENICE (Realist English). When Jeff Bezos rents half of Venice for a $50 million wedding, it is more than the...
Not Mossad’s strength — but Iran’s weakness
TBILISI (Realist English). The recent targeted assassinations of senior IRGC commanders and high-ranking Iranian officers are not simply the triumph...
The Church belongs to Christ, not to politicians: The Armenian Apostolic Church becomes a casualty of Yerevan’s political agony
YEREVAN (Realist English). First, they handed over part of the Holy Land to the Baku fascists, betraying the Armenians of...
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