Ukraine War Ukraine’s Manpower Math Just Forced a Decision It Long Avoided — Up to Half Its Infantry, Recruited From Abroad Ukraine's top general wants foreigners to fill up to half its assault and infantry units — screened and delivered by private recruiting firms, paid... Reuben JohnsonJune 14, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More The Most Expensive Weapon in U.S. History Is Fully Combat-Ready Just One-Quarter of the Time America's F-35 — at a lifetime cost some put above $2 trillion, the priciest weapon ever built — was fully combat-ready just 25 percent... Jack BuckbyJune 14, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More America Spent Decades as NATO’s Backbone. It’s Now Telling Europe to Carry Its Own Weight Fifty fighter jets. An aircraft carrier. A submarine. And every one of America's refueling tankers in Europe. The U.S. might be pulling back the... Jack BuckbyJune 14, 2026
Ukraine War Putin’s Military Is In Real Trouble in Ukraine: Russia Is Now Losing More Soldiers Than It Can Recruit Russia is offering men $80,000 to fight in Ukraine and $140,000 in debt relief — and recruitment still fell 20 percent this year. For... Harry J. KazianisJune 14, 2026
Ukraine War The Cracks in Putin’s Rule Are Real for the First Time. The Machine to Remove Him in Russia Still Doesn’t Exist For the first time, the cracks in Putin's rule are real — a shrinking economy, a stalled war, an elite near schism. And for... Harry J. KazianisJune 14, 2026
The Treaty Donald Trump Just Invoked Nuclear Weapons Against Iran. That Was a Big Mistake Buried at the end of Trump's announcement that the Iran war ends Sunday was a line that had nothing to do with the signing... Harry J. KazianisJune 13, 2026
The Treaty The U.S. Military Reportedly Planned to Send Troops Into Iran to Seize Its Uranium. Then Trump Hit Pause The plan was so secret the Pentagon's top general flew the Atlantic rather than discuss it on an encrypted line: send U.S. troops into... Reuben JohnsonJune 13, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More ‘The Death Spiral Must Stop’: The UN’s Stark Plea as Russia Hammers Ukraine’s Power Grid "The death spiral must stop," the UN's chief told the Security Council as Russia battered Ukraine's power grid before winter. Moscow's reply: a warning... Steve BalestrieriJune 13, 2026
Ukraine War ‘Ammunition, Not a Ride’: The Six Words That Saved Ukraine When the World Expected It to Fall to Russia in 72 Hours The world gave Kyiv 72 hours. A Russian outlet was so sure it published a victory article two days in — you can still... Jack BuckbyJune 13, 2026