Caleb Larson

Caleb Larson is an American multiformat journalist based in Berlin, Germany. His work covers the intersection of conflict and society, focusing on American foreign policy and European security. He has reported from Germany, Russia, and the United States. Most recently, he covered the war in Ukraine, reporting extensively on the war's shifting battle lines from Donbas and writing on the war's civilian and humanitarian toll. Previously, he worked as a Defense Reporter for POLITICO Europe. You can follow his latest work on X.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the at the BRICS+ meeting (via videoconference).

Ukraine War

Ukraine Just Got Handed a Brutal Preview of Winter: Russia Launched Its Most Massive Combined Energy Attack Since Last Heating Season

Russia launched one of its largest aerial attacks on Ukraine in months, targeting heating, power, and water ahead of winter. The strikes come as...

Caleb LarsonOctober 2, 2026

KEKAHA, Hawaii — U.S. Army 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force fires the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), which can fire traditional rocket artillery rounds or long-range missiles with various payloads, on Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024, July 11. 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. (Japanese Ground Self Defense Force Courtesy Photo)

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

NATO Just Got Handed a Nuclear Warning From Russia: Moscow Says It Is Ready to Use Its Entire Arsenal if NATO Tries to Cut Off Kaliningrad

Russia has warned NATO in a letter that it is ready to use its entire arsenal, including nuclear weapons, if the alliance tries to...

Caleb LarsonOctober 1, 2026

Putin in August of 2022 Image Credit Russian Federation

North Korea Talk

North Korea is Preparing to Send Thousands More of Its Troops to Russia for Combat in Ukraine

Ukraine quietly handed two captured North Korean soldiers to South Korea — a transfer Seoul says was supposed to stay secret, and one that...

Caleb LarsonSeptember 30, 2026

Ukraine War

North Korea Has Sent Thousands of Troops and Millions of Shells to Russia’s War in Ukraine — and Promised to Stay Until Victory

Russia is enlarging its army for the fourth time this year, and Ukraine says Moscow is leaning harder on North Korea to do it...

Caleb LarsonSeptember 30, 2026

New HIMARS Attack Creative Commons Photo.

Ukraine War

Ukraine’s Security Service Just Got Handed a Grim Milestone: Its Offices Struck for the First Time in the Entire War

Russia struck Ukraine's Security Service for the first time in the war, a sign of how squeezed the shield has become after the post-pause...

Caleb LarsonSeptember 9, 2026

MiG-29 Flair Drop Creative Commons Image.

Ukraine War

Ukraine Saved Its Air Force by Moving the Planes Between Bases and Putting Out Decoys in the First Weeks of War

Ukraine went into the war with a few dozen serviceable fighters against hundreds. Moscow's opening campaign failed to destroy them on the ground because...

Caleb LarsonAugust 15, 2026

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Trump Just Got Handed a Forty-Year Low: America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve Has Fallen Below 300 Million Barrels

Every crisis has taken a bigger bite. Seventeen million barrels for the Gulf War, twenty-one after Katrina, thirty-one for Libya, a hundred and eighty...

Caleb LarsonAugust 10, 2026

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) conducts routine operations while underway in the South China sea July 23, 2026. The George Washington Carrier Strike Group is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. George Washington is the U.S. Navy’s premiere forward-deployed aircraft carrier, a long-standing symbol of the United States’ commitment to maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific, while operating alongside allies and partners across the U.S. Navy’s largest numbered fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Andrew Novak)

Dollars and Sense

Something Has Shifted in the Energy Crisis: An Analysis Says the Squeeze Is No Longer About Barrels but About Refineries

Caleb Larson reports that the energy squeeze has moved from the price of crude to the world's ability to refine it, with Russia's diesel...

Caleb LarsonAugust 6, 2026

A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched from the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, during Flight Experiment THAAD (FET)-01 on July 30, 2017 (EDT). During the test, the THAAD weapon system successfully intercepted an air-launched, medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) target.

Ukraine War

Russia Just Pulled Off a Strategic Master Stroke in the Ukraine War — Missiles Keep Hitting Kyiv and Zelensky Can’t Stop Them

Caleb Larson reports on an overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv in which Ukraine's Air Force says it stopped none of the...

Caleb LarsonAugust 5, 2026

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Ukraine War

Ukraine Just Got Handed a Brutal Preview of Winter: Russia Launched Its Most Massive Combined Energy Attack Since Last Heating Season

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

NATO Just Got Handed a Nuclear Warning From Russia: Moscow Says It Is Ready to Use Its Entire Arsenal if NATO Tries to Cut Off Kaliningrad

North Korea Talk

North Korea is Preparing to Send Thousands More of Its Troops to Russia for Combat in Ukraine

Ukraine War

North Korea Has Sent Thousands of Troops and Millions of Shells to Russia’s War in Ukraine — and Promised to Stay Until Victory

Ukraine War

Ukraine’s Security Service Just Got Handed a Grim Milestone: Its Offices Struck for the First Time in the Entire War

Ukraine War

Ukraine Saved Its Air Force by Moving the Planes Between Bases and Putting Out Decoys in the First Weeks of War

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Trump Just Got Handed a Forty-Year Low: America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve Has Fallen Below 300 Million Barrels

Dollars and Sense

Something Has Shifted in the Energy Crisis: An Analysis Says the Squeeze Is No Longer About Barrels but About Refineries

Ukraine War

Russia Just Pulled Off a Strategic Master Stroke in the Ukraine War — Missiles Keep Hitting Kyiv and Zelensky Can’t Stop Them

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