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Defense / North America

Updated Reconciliation Bill Cuts Border Funds, Increases Munitions Investment

June 26, 2025June 26, 2025 - by Shaun McDougall

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) has released an updated version of the defense portion of the reconciliation bill, negotiated jointly by members of the House and Senate …

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Geopolitics / Middle East / North America

Tentative Ceasefire Takes Hold Following Iran’s Retaliatory Strikes

June 24, 2025 - by Shaun McDougall

A fragile ceasefire appears to be holding between Iran and Israel following a period of escalating violence, culminating in a covert U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. In the days …

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Featured / Geopolitics / Middle East

Operation Midnight Hammer: U.S. Strikes Iranian Nuclear Sites

June 23, 2025June 23, 2025 - by Derek Bisaccio

Just over a week after Israel began Operation Rising Lion, a major air campaign against Iran, the U.S. carried out its own series of strikes on Iran on Saturday night, …

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Geopolitics / North America

Canada Plans to Hit NATO Defense Spending Target Early, Shift Focus from U.S.

June 12, 2025 - by Shaun McDougall

Canada plans to meet NATO’s goal of spending two percent of GDP on defense this year, seven years earlier than planned, Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a speech Monday. …

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Defense / North America

FY26 Base Budget Cuts $25 Billion for Acquisition, Relies on Reconciliation Bill to Fill Gaps

June 10, 2025June 10, 2025 - by Shaun McDougall

President Trump’s fiscal year 2026 defense budget request cuts over $25 billion in acquisition funding from the Department of Defense’s base budget, primarily for procurement programs, shifting those expenses to …

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Europe / Featured / Geopolitics

Transformative or Mirage? Examining the U.K. Strategic Defense Review

June 4, 2025June 4, 2025 - by Daniel Darling

On Monday, June 2, the British government released a new Strategic Defence Review (SDR), the first such review implemented by a Labor government since 1998. It arrives at a time …

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Defense / Missiles / North America

Lockheed Martin Awarded $1 Billion U.S. Navy Contract for Hypersonic Missile Work

June 3, 2025June 3, 2025 - by Shaun McDougall

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $1 billion contract modification to continue its support for the U.S. Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) hypersonic weapons program, the Department of Defense announced. …

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Europe / Featured / War in Ukraine

Ukraine Strikes Russian Bomber Fleet in Elaborate Drone Plot

June 2, 2025June 3, 2025 - by Derek Bisaccio

Ukraine’s intelligence services conducted an unprecedented attack over the weekend on the Russian Aerospace Forces, striking dozens of parked Russian strategic bombers with first-person view (FPV) drones launched from modified …

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Defense / North America

A Trillion-Dollar Defense Budget That Isn’t

May 7, 2025May 22, 2025 - by Shaun McDougall

The White House made headlines recently by declaring its FY26 defense budget request would break the trillion-dollar mark, but the president’s claims don’t quite hold up to scrutiny. While the …

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Europe / War in Ukraine

Minerals and the War

May 5, 2025May 22, 2025 - by Derek Bisaccio

After months of tense wrangling, the U.S. and Ukraine formally signed a natural resource development agreement on April 30, establishing plans for a future partnership that will help Ukraine with …

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