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U.S. House passes $893 billion defense bill amid partisan clashes over social issues
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The U.S. House of Representatives approved an $893 billion defense authorization bill on Wednesday, advancing a measure...
Trump to revive ‘Department of War’ title in executive order
WASHINGTON (Realist English). US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Friday designating the Department of War as...
Pentagon data platform Advana stalls amid staff cuts and uncertainty
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The U.S. Defense Department’s flagship data platform Advana is facing indefinite delays after sweeping staff cuts, leaving...
Pentagon seeks secure cloud to share classified data with coalition partners
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The Pentagon is pushing to create a secure digital environment that would allow classified information to be...
Microsoft ends China-based support for U.S. defense cloud clients amid security concerns
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Microsoft announced Friday it has revised its internal protocols to ensure that no engineers based in China...
Software, speed, and code: FY2026 budget reveals how the Pentagon plans to fight tomorrow’s wars
WASHINGTON (Realist English). While headlines focus on the Pentagon’s headline-grabbing $879B FY2026 budget, the real story lies in the $179B...
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...
U.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...
Hegseth 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...
“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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