July 2026

The first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) transits the Atlantic Ocean, March 19, 2023. Ford is underway in the Atlantic Ocean executing its Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), an intense, multi-week exercise designed to fully integrate a carrier strike group as a cohesive, multi-mission fighting force and to test their ability to carry out sustained combat operations from the sea. As the first-in-class ship of Ford-class aircraft carriers, CVN 78 represents a generational leap in the U.S. Navy’s capacity to project power on a global scale. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jackson Adkins)

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A Hundred and Twenty-Five Ships a Day Once Crossed the Strait of Hormuz — on Thursday, Exactly Three Commodity Vessels Made It

Only three commodity vessels crossed the Strait of Hormuz Thursday — down from a prewar average near 125 — with no supertanker or LNG...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

(U.S. Air Force Photo/Staff Sgt Bennie J. Davis III)

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Iran Says Its Only Operating Nuclear Power Reactor Is Running Normally — Satellite Images Show Fresh Impact Scars Inside the Complex

Iran says its only operating nuclear power reactor stayed online — but Sentinel-2 imagery analyzed by Al Jazeera shows new impact scars inside the...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

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Everyone Says Iran Just Crossed Trump’s Red Line in Jordan — but That Line Described a Ceasefire That Died Days Earlier

CENTCOM says two American service members were killed and one is missing after Iranian ballistic missiles and drones struck Muwaffaq Salti Air Base on...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

A M109A7 Paladin, assigned to 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, Division Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division, fires a round during Operator New Equipment Training on Fort Hood, Texas, Aug. 25, 2025. The First Team is fielding new equipment, as part of the Transforming in Contact initiative, and conducting training to increase familiarization and precision with the new vehicles. (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. David Dumas)

Ukraine War

Kyiv Now Says Russia’s War Losses Are Approaching One and a Half Million — and Recruiting Can No Longer Keep Pace With the Toll

Ukraine's General Staff estimates Russian personnel losses at roughly 1.43 million since February 2022 — a figure CSIS's independent assessment broadly supports, with 400,000...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

Putin in 2020 Russian Government Photo Handout

Ukraine War

Russians Are Pulling Cash Out of Their Banks at the Fastest Pace Since the Pandemic — and Ukrainian Drones Are the Hidden Reason Why

Russia's stock of physical cash has jumped since January — the biggest rise outside the pandemic, per a BBC analysis — as mobile-internet shutdowns...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

Putin at Valdai Club in 2013. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Ukraine War

Ukraine Just Hit Three Russian Oil Depots and a Shadow-Fleet Ship in a Single Night — Moscow’s Whole Fuel Chain Is Now a Target

Ukraine's SBU says drones set fires at three oil depots in Russia's Stavropol region while a Mamai sea drone struck the Avero, the fourth...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

President Donald J. Trump participates in an interview with Trey Yingst, foreign correspondent for Fox New, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Joyce Boghosian)

The Treaty

Trump Is Now Fighting America’s Least Popular War Since Comparable Polling Began — and Voters Oppose It by a Full Thirty-Point Margin

A new Economist/YouGov poll finds that 57 percent of Americans believe the Iran war was the wrong decision, compared with 27 percent who support...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

Putin At a Conference Creative Commons Photo

Ukraine War

Russia Says It Downed Nearly Four Hundred Drones in a Single Night — a Smoke Plume Dozens of Miles Long Tells the Story It Left Out

Russia said it intercepted 379 Ukrainian drones overnight — yet smoke from a burning Wildberries complex near Moscow stretched for dozens of miles, and...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

Artillery Attack Pentagon Creative Commons Photo

Ukraine War

Russia Just Threw One of Its Largest Ballistic Barrages of the Entire War at Kyiv — and Ukraine’s Defenses Stopped Most of It

Russia fired 41 missiles and 125 drones at Ukraine overnight into July 19, concentrating one of its largest ballistic barrages on Kyiv; the Air...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

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A Hundred and Twenty-Five Ships a Day Once Crossed the Strait of Hormuz — on Thursday, Exactly Three Commodity Vessels Made It

Uncategorized

Iran Says Its Only Operating Nuclear Power Reactor Is Running Normally — Satellite Images Show Fresh Impact Scars Inside the Complex

Uncategorized

Everyone Says Iran Just Crossed Trump’s Red Line in Jordan — but That Line Described a Ceasefire That Died Days Earlier

Ukraine War

Kyiv Now Says Russia’s War Losses Are Approaching One and a Half Million — and Recruiting Can No Longer Keep Pace With the Toll

Ukraine War

Russians Are Pulling Cash Out of Their Banks at the Fastest Pace Since the Pandemic — and Ukrainian Drones Are the Hidden Reason Why

Ukraine War

Ukraine Just Hit Three Russian Oil Depots and a Shadow-Fleet Ship in a Single Night — Moscow’s Whole Fuel Chain Is Now a Target

The Treaty

Trump Is Now Fighting America’s Least Popular War Since Comparable Polling Began — and Voters Oppose It by a Full Thirty-Point Margin

Ukraine War

Russia Says It Downed Nearly Four Hundred Drones in a Single Night — a Smoke Plume Dozens of Miles Long Tells the Story It Left Out

Ukraine War

Russia Just Threw One of Its Largest Ballistic Barrages of the Entire War at Kyiv — and Ukraine’s Defenses Stopped Most of It

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