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The debate about American grand strategy has long been shaped by familiar schools of thought: restraint, liberal internationalism, and primacy. But the intellectual movement that provided the ideological fuel for U.S. President Donald Trump’s rise to power, the New Right, is forging a new contender: call it “civilizationism.” References to Western civilization permeate strategy documents and speeches by key members of the administration. Vice President JD Vance set the tone in his February 2025 speech at the Munich Security Conference, stressing the “threat from within” to the fundamental values that characterize “our shared civilization.” The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy…

(Original Caption) 2/16/1965-New York, NY-Alfred Hitchcock won’t reveal the subject of his next movie, but he’s obviously bored with the former friends who starred in his scare-film “The Birds.” The maestro of mayhem was caught in the “ho hum” mood when he dropped in at the Rizzoli Bookstore on New York’s Fifth Avenue, to check on the latest “Ghoulology.”

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III has made a highly unusual visit to Moscow today, landing at Vnukovo Airport after flying from Riga, Latvia, according to publicly available flight-tracking data. The purpose of the flight remains unclear for now. It does come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has identified a potential opportunity for new U.S. ​mediation to help end the Russian war in Ukraine. Flight-tracking data identified the C-17, operating under the callsign RCH4555, departing Riga at approximately 8:50…

On August 13, three years after construction began, the frigate Wicher—the prototype vessel of Project 106 Miecznik—was launched. This is a milestone for the Polish Navy, as well as for PGZ Stocznia Wojenna, the prime contractor for the program to build a series of frigates for Polish naval fleet as part of the PGZ-MIECZNIK consortium. Due to the launching technology employed, the preparations and the process itself spanned several days. Along with the Miecznik program, the modernization of PGZ Stocznia Wojenna (PGZ SW) began, during which existing facilities were renovated and new buildings were erected, including Poland’s tallest production hall,…

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It’s no secret that turn-based strategy games are, at the moment, my favorite sub-genre of strategy. For a busy adult like myself, they offer a perfect middle ground that’s hard to find elsewhere: These games offer the complexity of mechanics and systems, while paired with the fundamental ability to take my time when pondering and deciding my moves. To write this article, I put together a list of my favorite turn-based strategy games I have played recently and came to a very interesting conclusion: most of them are sci-fi. And since sci-fi strategy games are among the most popular titles…

For 47 years, the Islamic Republic has bedeviled U.S. presidents. The 1979 Iran hostage crisis helped doom Jimmy Carter’s reelection bid. The Iran-contra scandal in the mid-1980s badly tarnished Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy record. And Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), led to an unprecedented situation in which the U.S. Congress invited a foreign leader, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to Washington to argue against it.In February, when he launched his war against Iran, President Donald Trump declared that he intended to break this embarrassing pattern once and for all. By crushing…

Doing 100 push ups a day can improve your push up endurance, build some muscle in your chest, triceps, and shoulders, and make the movement feel dramatically easier within a few weeks. It can also become a fast route to stalled progress, sore joints, or an unbalanced program if every repetition is rushed and no other training is included. The result depends on your current strength, your technique, how close the sets are to failure, and whether you keep making the exercise harder as you adapt. The push up is a legitimate resistance exercise, not a lesser substitute for the…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The bubbling trade war between the United States and Canada continues to escalate as U.S. President Donald Trump announced a new round of tariffs Monday.  Trump said in a social media post that he would install a 50% tariff on all cars, trucks, automotive parts and steel imports from Canada, effective Jan. 1, claiming Canada was “ripping off” the U.S. It’s unclear how the threatened tariffs would interact with existing Section 232 levies on imported automobiles and parts, or with the existing…

Plymouth, UK: ZeroUSV has achieved a world first by successfully demonstrating the autonomous deployment of multiple autonomous surface drones (ASVs) from a 12 metre Oceanus class uncrewed surface vessels(USVs), marking an important milestone in proving the payload flexibility of the Oceanus class USV platforms.  During trials in Plymouth, ZeroUSV’s Oceanus12 deployed two Oshen C-Star’s, demonstrating for the first time how one autonomous surface vessel can deploy multiple  marine surface drones as part of a coordinated mission. The demonstration was part of ongoing UK Defence Innovation (UKDI) backed programme, led by ZeroUSV alongside partners Oshen and MarineAI. Centred around ZeroUSV’s Oceanus12…