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Turkey’s ICBM: Ambition for Autonomy

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Turkey’s ICBM: Ambition for Autonomy

Curtis McGiffin0 Comments

Published: May 26, 2026 At the recent SAHA Expo 2026, Turkey unveiled a mock-up of the Yildirimhan (Thunderbolt) and released details about the long-range, four-engined, liquid-fueled ballistic missile. The designation…

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Can Denmark Defend Greenland from Trump?

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Strategic Adversariesair and missile defense, Arctic, Chagos Archipelago, China, collective defense, Defense Greenland Agreement, Denmark, Deterrence, Diego Garcia, Donald Trump, early-warning architecture, fifth-generation airpower, GIUK Gap, Greenland, maritime and subsurface awareness, Mauritius, missile-warning infrastructure, NATO, NATO Article 3, Pituffik (Thule) Air/Space Base, power projection, rules-based international order, Russia, sovereignty, strategic autonomy

Can Denmark Defend Greenland from Trump?

Kirk Fansher & Curtis McGiffin1 Comment

The renewed attention on Greenland did not begin with Arctic ice melt or the quest for rare earth minerals. It began with discomfort, specifically, American discomfort with a long-standing European…

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Bolstering Extended Deterrence

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archivealliances, American commitment, Australia, defense cooperation, heavy bomber task force exercises, Indo-Pacific, infrastructure, interoperability, Japan, joint coalition exercises, multilateral treaty organization, NATO, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear umbrella, nuclear-capable F-35s, partnerships, People's Republic of China, power projection, regional defense cooperation, regional security, regional stability, Russia, security cooperation, South Korea, SSBN port calls, United States, William Atkins

Bolstering Extended Deterrence

William Atkins0 Comments

As the nuclear deterrence landscape continues to change, the United States must reinvigorate its alliances and partnerships to project power effectively and effectively hold adversaries at risk. The 2022 National…

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