Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
A B-1B Lancer flew from a British airbase back into combat against Iran, Axios reported — unmentioned in CENTCOM's updates. Central Command says Hormuz...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Professor Andrew Latham reads the blockade numbers: non-Iranian Hormuz transits collapsed to a fraction of last year's while Iran-linked traffic barely dipped, moving inside...
The Treaty
Saudi Arabia stopped bombing the Houthis, pulled back in Yemen, and let its proxies work with them. Michael Rubin on what that bought Riyadh,...
Dollars and Sense
The outrage over firing a costly missile at a cheap drone misses the point, Dr. Andrew Latham argues: the problem is not the price...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Three tankers loaded with Saudi crude for Asia reversed course in the Red Sea on Tuesday and headed for Suez instead. Nobody fired at...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
A retired Navy intelligence officer argues that American strikes have damaged Iran's military without touching the revenue that sustains it. He calls for a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Iranian analyst Behrouz Ayaz argues Tehran has mistaken the ability to impose costs at Hormuz for the ability to deter Washington. American imports through...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
President Trump met senior advisers about escalating the war, a source told CNN, then told reporters negotiations with Tehran are active and the Iranians...
Ukraine War
Special forces operators in Ukraine say drones have taken over the sniper's role, pushing elite teams to strike from far greater distances. One American...
Ukraine War
Russia says its air defenses intercepted 328 Ukrainian drones overnight into July 25 as attacks stretched from the Belgorod border region to Yekaterinburg in...
Ukraine War
Putin Can’t Stop the Drones: Moscow Just Warned Tankers That Its Own Black Sea Waters Are Now Unsafe
Russia's Sheskharis terminal at Novorossiysk has not loaded a cargo since July 21 amid surging Ukrainian drone activity — roughly one-fifth of the country's...
The Treaty
Trump’s tariffs have not destroyed the U.S. economy, but the damage is measurable. Consumer prices rose, investment weakened, manufacturing employment failed to surge and...
The Treaty
Senate GOP policy chair Shelley Moore Capito says the public is growing weary of the Iran war, echoing Jim Justice's off-ramp call. Quinnipiac finds...
The Treaty
Administration officials told the Wall Street Journal that President Trump is in revenge mode, convinced only greater force can end the Iran war. He...
Dollars and Sense
President Donald Trump imposed tariffs of 10 percent to 12.5 percent on imports from 60 economies as the Iran war pushed oil above $100....
Dollars and Sense
Donald Trump said the world could exhaust its oil reserves within four weeks if Hormuz remained restricted. He then returned to war with Iran....
Dollars and Sense
Reuters reports Yemeni officials and Western diplomats see a sharply higher risk of civil war returning, with Houthi and government forces reinforcing front lines...
North Korea Talk
For years Beijing said it wanted both stability and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula. Stability always ranked higher, but the second goal was at...
North Korea Talk
Pyongyang promised Moscow it will stay until victory. Moscow promised something back — and Beijing is watching its hold on Kim slip away.
North Korea Talk
North Korea's foreign minister promised Putin on July 19 that Pyongyang will back Russia until victory — a pledge already embedded in the war....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
While Washington keeps escalating, Iran appears to be determined to fight for as long as possible. It is, after all, a fight that will...
Ukraine War
Russia fired a ballistic missile at a Ukrainian defense-industry exhibition near Kyiv, killing at least 10 people and injuring nearly 100. Moscow said the...