David Axe

Forbes Staff|Aerospace & Defense

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army, broadly speaking, follows a command model that reflects China’s top-down, authoritarian form of government.

The U.S. Navy is concentrating many of its most powerful vessels in and around the Persian Gulf. It seems something could be about to happen—it’s not totally clear what.

The Japanese navy already was planning to acquire two new giant missile-defense ships to replace unpopular land-based missile sites. Now it’s considering adding long-range land-attack missiles to the two ships, as well.

In their new maritime strategy manifesto, America’s sea chiefs made a compelling case for a bigger and more powerful U.S. Coast Guard.

It’s possible the MiG-31Ks and their very fast missiles mostly are for show. So far it seems there’s more flash than substance to the Russian air force’s hypersonic rearmament program.