Ukraine War
Summary and Key Points: There’s no harder place on earth to take an honest poll than wartime Russia. Answers come wrapped in fear, censorship,...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Can Trump Extricate Himself from the Iran War?: When President George W. Bush ordered U.S. troops to invade Iraq almost a quarter century ago,...
Dollars and Sense
Summary and Key Points: Almost every conversation about the Iran War points the same way — toward Tehran, the Strait of Hormuz, the warships...
The Treaty
U.S. President Donald J. Trump has found himself in a mess, or perhaps it is better to say he has created one for himself....
The Treaty
The United States has been effectively defeated by Iran in this year’s war. US President Donald Trump has been unable to coerce acceptable terms...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: On the surface, the Iran war has stalled into a tense ceasefire. Underneath, the regime is coming apart: prices are...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The Avro Vulcan was designed as a bomber, but it was never defined so tightly in practice. Britain’s great delta-winged V-bomber...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Kuwait Airport Strikes Explained – Summary and Key Points: Iran’s missile and drone strikes on Kuwait International Airport mark a dangerous escalation in the...
Ukraine War
After four years of fighting in Ukraine, one of the biggest surprises of the war is that Russia’s economy never collapsed fully in the...
Ukraine War
In what is a clear slap in the face to Vladimir Putin, the Ukrainians have attacked his hometown of St. Petersburg. Drones from Ukraine...
Ukraine War
Summary and Key Points: For one week a year, St. Petersburg belongs to Vladimir Putin — host to a glittering economic forum built to...
The Treaty
Summary and Key Points: Ask most people what an oil shortage looks like, and they’ll say expensive gas. They won’t say a bakery asking...
The Treaty
Summary and Key Points: Strip away the politics, and Trump’s war on Iran reads like two completely different stories. In one, it’s a stunning...
The Treaty
Summary and Key Points: For more than a decade, the U.S. military ran war game after war game simulating a conflict with Iran, and...
Dollars and Sense
Summary and Key Points: Here’s a thought experiment one national security analyst can’t shake: what if the Strait of Hormuz simply stays closed —...
Dollars and Sense
Summary and Key Points – For years, the economists’ watchlist was the same: AI, debt, trade, and demographics. The OECD just rewrote it. Its...
Dollars and Sense
The Iran War Has Already Hit Your Gas Tank. Next, Economists Warn, It’s Coming for Your Grocery Bill
Summary and Key Points: So far, the Iran War has hit Americans where they expected: at the gas pump, where prices have jumped 35%...
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...
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 Talk
MANILA – Russia has paid North Korea up to $ 14.4 billion in military aid since 2023. The figure is roughly equivalent to North...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: It looks almost comical — a squat white dome sailors nicknamed “R2-D2.” But the Phalanx is one of the deadliest...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: At first glance, it was a display of raw power: in one night, Russia hurled 656 drones and 73 missiles...