A US military strike to support Iran’s protesters would need to be very different from Trump’s operation to target the country’s nuclear facilities.

Last year in June, Tehran launched missile strikes against a US base in Qatar after vowing to retaliate when US forces directly attacked Iran’s three main nuclear sites following weeks of threats by Trump. US officials said the missiles had been successfully intercepted and no casualties were reported.

At its height, the United States operated 50 military installations in Greenland—and once had fantastical plans for an elaborate nuclear missile network underneath its ice.

For years, there have been concerns that the stockpile was dwindling as the U.S. provided weapons to Ukraine amid its war with Russia or Israel amid its conflict with Hamas. The U.S. has given allies a wide variety of weapons, including air defense systems and armored vehicles.

Greenland's natural resources and proximity to Russia and China have made it a valuable strategic asset to the US military since World War II.

The YJ-20 is particularly concerning for American defense planners because large US ships still have no reliable countermeasures against hypersonic weapons.

In the aftermath of the 12-Day War, both Israeli and US officials were insistent that regime change in Iran was not one of the objectives — notwithstanding some mostly symbolic actions by Israel that seemed to signal the opposite.

Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. […]

Norwegian defense firm Kongsberg initiates a US missile plant in Virginia, aiming to boost NSM and JSM production to cater to NATO allies' needs.