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Pentagon tightens control over communications with Congress
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The Pentagon has imposed new restrictions on how military officials communicate with Congress, following two internal memos...
US Army courts Wall Street giants for $150bn infrastructure overhaul
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The US Army has invited leading Wall Street private equity firms — including Apollo, Carlyle, KKR, and...
US Southern Command chief to retire amid tensions over legality of Caribbean strikes
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The head of US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), Admiral Alvin Holsey, will retire at the end of 2025...
U.S. Army merges Futures Command and TRADOC to form new Transformation and Training Command
AUSTIN (Realist English). The U.S. Army has officially merged two of its major four-star commands — the Army Futures Command...
Defense Secretary Hegseth fires Navy chief of staff amid internal power struggle
WASHINGTON (Realist English). U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday dismissed Jon Harrison, chief of staff to Navy Secretary John...
Pentagon awards Lockheed Martin $12.5bn contract for nearly 300 F-35 jets
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday awarded Lockheed Martin a $12.5 billion contract to produce nearly...
US deploys new air defense system to South Korea amid rising drone threats
SEOUL (Realist English). A new U.S. air defense system designed to intercept cruise missiles, drones and rocket attacks has been...
Hegseth rules Wounded Knee Medals of Honor will remain despite massacre legacy
WASHINGTON (Realist English). U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Thursday that 19 soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor for their...
US Army expands battlefield use of 3D printing for faster equipment repairs
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The U.S. Army is increasing its use of additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, to repair equipment directly...
“Israel is not fighting the Iranian people, but the regime”: Alexander Tsinker on the goals of the operation against Iran
TEL AVIV (Realist English). The war in the Middle East, which began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, has entered its fifth...
Hezbollah excluded from the ceasefire: Lapshin explains why Iran agreed to the pause
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin has assessed the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, calling it a...
“Armenians are the autochthonous people of the South Caucasus”: geneticist Levon Yepiskoposyan on the Armenian gene pool and its neighbors
YEREVAN (Realist English). Levon Yepiskoposyan – Doctor of Biological Sciences, head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics at the Institute of...
“The main Russophobes are the enemies of communists”: Dmitry Novikov responds to attacks on the Communist Party
MOSCOW (Realist English). In an article published in the newspaper Soviet Russia on April 4, 2026, Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee...
Alexander Cheryomin: Karabakh is an ancient Armenian land
MOSCOW (Realist English). If one looks at the history of Yerevan, founded in 782 BC, and studies its architectural monuments, it...
The elimination of El Mencho will not stop the drug business — the threads lead to the corridors of US power
MEXICO CITY (Realist English). Mexico has been engulfed in bloody clashes for several days. After the elimination of drug lord El...
Ceasefire with Iran will not lead to peace — “neither war nor peace” will begin
MOSCOW (Realist English). In his article for Realist English, Stanislav Ivanov, a leading researcher at IMEMO RAS and Candidate of Historical...
“Playing the Kurdish card isn’t working for the CIA and Mossad”: expert on the position of Kurds amid the war in Iran
MOSCOW (Realist English). The war between the United States and Israel against Iran has not led to the activation of Kurdish...
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