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The Treaty

Trump’s Ceasefire Mirage Is Collapsing: and the War Is About to Return: The purported ceasefire between the United States and the Islamic Republic of...

Trump in the Oval Office

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Iran’s decision to walk away – breaking in the news right now – from the negotiating table and threatening to seal the Strait of...

Putin Back in July of 2024. Russian Government Photo

Dollars and Sense

Most commentary on Russia’s frozen reserves treats the story as one of irony. Vladimir Putin accumulated nearly $300 billion to protect Russia from Western...

Putin Sitting in a Meeting Russian Federation Image

Ukraine War

Summary and Key Points: Something shifted on the Russian side of the front line over the winter. After three years of feeding fresh recruits...

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

PAK DA Bomber Russian Air Force

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Russia’s PAK DA was supposed to be Moscow’s stealth answer to the American B-21 — a flying-wing bomber built to haul nuclear weapons past...

Su-57 Felon in the Sky Su-57 Felon in the Sky

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Summary and Key Points: Russia has finally put its Su-57 back to work in Ukraine — but not the way Moscow once promised. Rather...

Su-57 Felon Stealth Fighter from Russia. Su-57 Felon Stealth Fighter from Russia.

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

One thing I know for certain is that U.S. Air Force pilots don’t hold their tongue. When I asked an elite stealth fighter pilot...

Ukraine War

Swedish soldiers with the Wartofta Tank Company, Skaraborg Regiment in a Stridsvagn 122 main battle tank conduct the defensive operations lane during the Strong Europe Tank Challenge, June 7, 2018. U.S. Army Europe and the German Army co-host the third Strong Europe Tank Challenge at Grafenwoehr Training Area, June 3 - 8, 2018. The Strong Europe Tank Challenge is an annual training event designed to give participating nations a dynamic, productive and fun environment in which to foster military partnerships, form Soldier-level relationships, and share tactics, techniques and procedures. (U.S. Army photo by Gertrud Zach)

Ukraine War

Summary and Key Points: Whenever the fighting stops, Russia will still be sitting on a slice of Ukrainian territory, and many observers will read...

M1 Abrams Tank M1 Abrams Tank

Ukraine War

For three years, anyone who said Ukraine could win was waved off as naive — the numbers were against them, the bean counters insisted,...

T-14 Armata Russian Tank T-14 Armata Russian Tank

Ukraine War

Rumors in the past few days have raised fresh concerns that the Belarusian authoritarian president, Aleksandr Lukashenko, may permit Russia to use his territory...

The Treaty

T-90 Tank from Ukraine

The Treaty

Summary and Key Points: On June 23, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group — a private army the Kremlin itself had built — seized the...

President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

The Treaty

Three months into his war with Iran, President Trump faces a fork in the road. Thousands of American and Israeli strikes have killed Iranian...

President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at a Military Mothers’ Day event, Wednesday, May 6, 2026, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks) President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at a Military Mothers’ Day event, Wednesday, May 6, 2026, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)

The Treaty

Even if the Trump administration secures a 60-day ceasefire that reopens the Strait of Hormuz, the world will still suffer economic damage from the...

Dollars and Sense

RB-47H U.S. Air Force Museum National Security Journal Image

Dollars and Sense

Summary and Key Points: The B-47 Stratojet is one of the least-celebrated Cold War bombers — and one of the most influential. -To build...

USS Enterprise. Image Credit: Creative Commons. USS Enterprise. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Dollars and Sense

Summary and Key Points: In 1983, the USS Enterprise — the world’s first nuclear-powered carrier — was returning from a Pacific deployment when it...

Sailors prepare to man the rails as Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024, June 25. Twenty-nine nations, 40 surface ships, three submarines, 14 national land forces, more than 150 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC in and around the Hawaiian Islands, June 27 to Aug. 1. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2024 is the 29th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Leon Vonguyen) Sailors prepare to man the rails as Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024, June 25. Twenty-nine nations, 40 surface ships, three submarines, 14 national land forces, more than 150 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC in and around the Hawaiian Islands, June 27 to Aug. 1. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2024 is the 29th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Leon Vonguyen)

Dollars and Sense

Summary and Key Points: The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has removed roughly a billion barrels of oil from the market, triggering the...

North Korea Talk

M2020 Tank from North Korea.

North Korea Talk

Summary and Key Points: Four years into a war the Kremlin expected to win in weeks, Russia is leaning on North Korean soldiers to...

Donald Trump Cabinet Meeting Donald Trump Cabinet Meeting

North Korea Talk

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on May 21 that Chinese President Xi Jinping may travel to Pyongyang as early as next week, according...

North Korea Artillery North Korea Artillery

North Korea Talk

MANILA – Russia has paid North Korea up to $ 14.4 billion in military aid since 2023. The figure is roughly equivalent to North...