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The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send the Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine that could be announced as soon as this week, according to two US officials and a senior administration official.

China's stockpile of nuclear warheads has surpassed 400 in a fraction of the time previously estimated by the United States, a major Pentagon report revealed, with Beijing focusing on accelerating its nuclear expansion as it seeks to challenge the US

WASHINGTON (AP) — The intense firefight over Ukraine has the Pentagon rethinking its weapons stockpiles. If another major war broke out today, would the United States have enough ammunition to fight? ...

At the General Debate during the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared that the United States government is attempting to turn the entire planet into its “backyard”. He also called attention to the US’s use of unilateral sanctions against

This will document that the new Cold War between the U.S. and Russia did not start, as the Western myth has it, with Russias involvement in the breakaway of Crimea and Donbass from Ukraine, after Ukraine next door to Russia had suddenly turned rabidly hostile toward Russia in February 2014.

Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded Thursday that the West "immediately" guarantee that NATO will not expand to include Ukraine and blamed the US for inflaming tensions in eastern...

'We are not going to respond to every proposal or comment that was made, including from the Russian president,' says a senior White House official

A Russian state television host threatened on Sunday that the U.S. could be "reduced to radioactive ash" if it does not meet the demands laid out by

President Donald Trump entered office saying that he wanted a better relationship with Russia. Instead, the two governments edged closer to conflict. The administration increased sanctions on Moscow, expelled Russian diplomats, expanded military assistanc

MANILA With the Covid-19 pandemic mostly contained in China and now wreaking havoc on the United States, security analysts are closely watching Beijings military moves in the hotly contest

The U.S. Navy says a Chinese ship fired a laser at a U.S. surveillance aircraft flying over the Philippine Sea west of Guam

My children go to a small Christian private school. One of the most popular teachers has been called up to go to Afghanistan for another tour. He will leave behind his wife, children and school. My kids are distraught. My oldest asked me a question for wh

President Donald Trump "is preparing to announce a long-anticipated drawdown of about 4,000 troops from Afghanistan" according to White House sources who spoke to CNN, the network reported Sunday morning. The Trump Administration has been preparin

While Democratic Presidential and congressional candidates carp about the rich not paying enough, they're sitting on top of a scandal of almost unimaginable proportions. It involves 18 years of war, almost a million deployed troops, 2400 lives lost, 2

Questioning "mutual assured destruction," Charles Kupperman called nuclear conflict "in large part a physics problem."

When President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had "fired" national security adviser John Bolton , there was no bigger Republican cheerleader of the move than Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.). After news broke of Bolton's departure (which, accordin

"For too long our leaders have failed us, taking us into one regime-change war after the next, leading us into a new cold war and arms race, costing us trillions of our hard-earned taxpayer dollars and countless lives. This insanity must end." Don

President Trump said he wants to keep U.S. military forces in Iraq to keep a

The Republican-led U.S. Senate approved a mainly symbolic bill opposing plans to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan in a rare rebuke of President Donald Trump.

One name, however, was never mentioned in that announcement—and rightfully so at the time. Absent this one individual’s help, the raid never could have occurred. Yet, sadly, seven years later that individual continues paying a heavy price personally for helping rid the world of an evildoer who