For months, an uneasy mood has hung over discussions of American military power. The United States remains, by any obvious measure, the strongest military on earth: it maintains bases across the globe, fields a powerful navy and air force, and spends far more on defense than any other country. Yet reports from the recent conflict with Iran have raised a question as uncomfortable as it is unavoidable: Does America have enough munitions for a long, high-intensity war? On Wednesday, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell tried to put that question to rest. “Claims of US munitions shortages are false,” he told The…

The Hidden Cost of a Crisp: Unpacking England’s False Alarm Crisis in Purpose-Built Flats Imagine the sudden, shrill scream of a fire alarm cutting through the quiet of an evening. Your heart skips a beat; a primal instinct kicks in. For thousands of residents in purpose-built apartment blocks across England, this is a disturbingly frequent reality. Yet, more often than not, the drama that unfolds leads to a collective sigh of relief rather than an emergency. In the past year, fire and rescue services across the country were called out to over 56,000 incidents in these modern residential dwellings only…