United States Navy

Israel's newest submarine, the Drakon, just arrived in Haifa. What does a six-boat fleet actually buy a country the size of New Jersey?

The word "superpower" was invented in 1944. So how do you build a list of them stretching back to Akkad?

For 19 years, one narrow seam connected two hostile halves of Jerusalem. Here's how the Mandelbaum Gate actually worked.

Rockets get the coverage, but the real work happens at consoles on the ground. What 15,000 Guardians actually do.

Fifteen fuel dumps a year over US airspace — and nobody tracks where the fuel lands or what it does to the ocean.

Famine classification fights obscure simpler questions: how many children are acutely malnourished, and what does the data actually show?