United States Marine Corps

December 20, 2024 | Dr. Thomas X. Hammes, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Joint Warfighting Concept 2034-2044

For decades, U.S. warfighters have stated that offensive action is the key to victory. However, recent massive advances in sensors, command and control systems, andprecision weapons produced...

November 4, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: November 4, 2024

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November 2, 2024 | |

U.S. Marines Train with Mobile Air Defense Adapted from Iron Dome

The United States conducted a successful live-fire training of a transportable aerial defense system that includes components from Israel’s Iron Dome system.

October 30, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: October 30, 2024

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September 24, 2024 | Sinan Ciddi, Sophia Epley

Why Is The U.S. So Keen To Get Turkey Back Into The F-35 Program?

Ankara has and is taking visible steps to decouple itself from upholding the values and security priorities of the NATO alliance.

September 22, 2024 | Cleo Paskal |

‘Only strength can ensure peace’: Palau President Whipps Jr.

There is a lot going on in the Republic of Palau, a country of over 300 islands and around 20,000 people southeast of the Philippines. Its strategic location has meant Palau has been subject to waves of...

September 20, 2024 | |

Top Hezbollah Commander and Radwan Force Leaders Eliminated in Israeli Air Strike on Beirut

An Israeli air strike on Beirut on September 20 eliminated Hezbollah’s top military commander, Ibrahim Aqil, and 10 other senior commanders belonging to the Iran-backed terrorist...

September 20, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: September 20, 2024

Israel SitRep: September 20, 2024 Today’s Issue: | Israeli Airstrike on Hezbollah Stronghold Near Beirut Targets Hezbollah Official Wanted by U.S. | Rocket Barrages Hit Northern Israel Friday; IAF...

September 6, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: September 6, 2024

Today’s Issue: | IDF Operation in Jenin: 14 Terrorists Killed, More Than 30 Arrested | IAF Serves as ‘Force Multiplier’ in IDF’s West Bank Operation | IDF’s Yiftah Brigade Carries Out Drill to...

September 5, 2024 | Sinan Ciddi, Sophia Epley

U.S. Marines in Turkey Assaulted by Nationalist Youth Group

Two U.S. Marines in Turkey were assaulted on Monday by more than a dozen members of the Turkish Youth Union (TYU), a secular nationalist youth group opposed to U.S. and European Union influence in the...

August 28, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Tehran holds its fire

Israel preventively strikes Hezbollah missiles and launch sites in Lebanon

August 1, 2024 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Two Assassinations and a Transformed War

Israel just took out Hamas and Hezbollah leaders deep inside enemy territory. Now Iran is threatening to retaliate. What comes next?

July 31, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: July 31, 2024

Today’s Issue: | Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh Assassinated in Tehran; Iranian Officials ‘in Utter Shock’ | Defense Minister on Elimination of Fuad Shukr: ‘No Place Out of Reach for Our Forces’...

July 30, 2024 | |

Israel Kills Most Senior Hezbollah Military Commander in Retaliatory Strike

Latest Developments An Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on July 30 killed the most senior military commander of the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah. In a news release...

July 30, 2024 | Joe Truzman |

Israeli airstrike kills top Lebanese Hezbollah commander

An Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut killed Lebanese Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated on July 30. This retaliatory strike came in...

July 24, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

America held hostage

Rewarding thugs is not an adequate policy response

July 20, 2024 | Bradley Bowman, Lydia LaFavor

Build Iron Dome in the United States To Prepare for Israel’s Worst Day

Israel is racing to build more Iron Dome air defense systems amid a growing threat of war with Hezbollah, which has a massive stockpile of more than 150,000 mortars, rockets, and missiles....

July 10, 2024 | Will Selber, Bill Roggio

David Petraeus Is Wrong: Counterinsurgency Won’t Work in Gaza

When you only have a hammer. . .

June 26, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Would Trump re-establish peace through strength?

As should be clear by now, the alternative is war through weakness

June 20, 2024 | Cleo Paskal |

Remembering Saipan: The battle that reshaped the Pacific

Nine days after D-Day, on June 15, 1944, the Battle of Saipan erupted on the other side of the world. It was to be as pivotal for the Pacific Theater as D-Day was for the war in Europe. Eighty years...