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Harry J. Kazianis

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Covers:  U.S. Military, Russia, China, North Korea, Military Strategy and National Security.
Harry J. Kazianis is President/Editor-In-Chief @19_forty_five (19FortyFive) and National Security Journal. Recovering Think Tank Senior Something.

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Harry J. Kazianis (@Grecianformula or Email: hkazianis@nationalinterest.org) is Senior Director of National Security Affairs at the Center for the National Interest. He also serves as Executive Editor of its publishing arm, The National Interest.

Expertise and National Security Background

Mr. Kazianis is a recognized expert on national security issues involving North Korea, China, the Asia-Pacific, Europe and general U.S. foreign policy and national security challenges.

He previously served as …

Harry J. Kazianis’s Journalist Portfolio

China's Missiles are the Real Threat to America

China's Missiles are the Real Threat to America

Spy balloons are bad. But let's worry a little more about the overall rise of China and its military capabili…

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Could Australia Buy or Lease Used Navy Attack Submarines?

Could Australia Buy or Lease Used Navy Attack Submarines?

Would Australia ever consider a purchase or even leasing older, U.S. navy nuclear-powered attack submarines? …

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I Fought a U.S. War Against Iran In a Simulator. It Ended Badly.

I Fought a U.S. War Against Iran In a Simulator. It Ended Badly.

Our wargame begins when Tehran responds, deciding to conduct large-scale naval exercises near the Strait of H…

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The US Navy Fixed a Price on Stealth Technology Nobody Had Invented Yet, and the A-12 Avenger II Never Flew. 35 Years Later Boeing Lost $4,900,000,000 in a Single Year on the Same Kind of Contract.

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By Harry J. Kazianis
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Summary and Key Points: Lockheed, which had just built the F-117, refused to bid on the A-12 Avenger II. Northrop, which had built the B-2 and was teamed with Grumman, refused too — and told the Navy its cost estimate was at least $2,000,000,000 short and that the required technologies did not yet exist.
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A Pentagon Review Panel Examined All 20 Medals of Honor Awarded for Wounded Knee in 1890. In September 2025 the Secretary of Defense Decided Every 1 of Them Stays, and Congress Is Still Trying to Take Them Back.

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By Harry J. Kazianis
| 19FortyFive Verified
Summary and Key Points: Wounded Knee – The US Army’s own commanding general called it the most brutal massacre he had ever heard of; its own 1891 investigation recorded women shot down fleeing with their children; and Congress expressed its deep regret a century later — while twenty soldiers hold the nation’s highest honor for it.
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France’s 42,000-Ton Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Charles de Gaulle Went to Sea With a Flight Deck 4.4 Meters Too Short and Lost a Propeller in the Atlantic. She Then Sailed 6 Years on Spare Screws Built for 1960s Carriers.

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By Harry J. Kazianis
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Summary and Key Points: France’s Charles de Gaulle went to sea trials with a flight deck 4.4 meters too short to fly the E-2C Hawkeye her air wing was built around, and the deck had to be lengthened after the fact. On the night of 9–10 November 2000, on her final long-distance trials, her port propeller broke in the Western Atlantic.
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