The Treaty
Pakistan again says a US-Iran arrangement is taking shape — but the author notes Islamabad was optimistic before the last deal, which collapsed days...
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Dollars and Sense
President Trump told Axios the United States is 'only semi-negotiating' with Iran, shifting to a strategy of waiting Tehran out while the blockade takes...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Brandon J. Weichert argues the war's planners grotesquely underestimated Iran's underground missile cities — granite-buried complexes built after watching Saddam fall, where launchers, drones,...
Ukraine War
Eighteen refineries hit in July, thirty attacks on oil infrastructure since, tankers and pipelines and ports among them. Yet Russian troops are closing on...
Dollars and Sense
Eight million barrels a night sounds enormous until you set it beside the 21 million a day that crossed Hormuz before the war. Tehran...
The Treaty
The war was pitched as four days to five weeks. Six months later, Hormuz is still closed, the Houthis hold Bab el-Mandeb, and Iran's...
Dollars and Sense
Brandon J. Weichert reports that ship-tracking firm Kpler counted only eight vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, against roughly a hundred and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Brandon J. Weichert reports on a new CSIS study finding that the United States has spent virtually all of its long-range precision missiles in...
Dollars and Sense
Brandon J. Weichert argues the Iran-Oman arrangement now in its final stages is nothing like the deal Trump describes. Citing Al Jazeera, Reuters, and...