The Treaty
The war devastated Iran — its supreme leader killed, its navy and missile forces decimated, its economy in freefall. Yet Tehran limped on and...
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Ukraine War
Putin conceded Ukraine's strikes are "creating problems" and ordered a crash program to build more air defense missiles — Russia's S-300 interceptors are running...
Ukraine War
Ukraine's drones struck Moscow again overnight — more than 60 downed by air defenses, the capital's international airports disrupted for hours, and for at...
Ukraine War
At the start of the year, the war seemed to be tilting Putin's way: Washington was distracted by Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba, and Moscow...
Ukraine War
For most of this war, Ukraine was the side running dangerously low on air defenses. That's flipping. Russia is now reportedly running short on...
Ukraine War
Putin conceded Russia is facing a fuel "deficit" — a quiet admission of how badly Ukraine's long-range strikes have hurt the country, with refining...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. expelled Turkey from the F-35 stealth-fighter program after Ankara bought a Russian air-defense system. Now the Trump administration appears poised to approve...
The Treaty
If America walked away from NATO, what would Europe actually lose? Not mainly soldiers, this analysis argues, but the alliance's "eyes and ears" —...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Why are Ukraine's small, cheap drones so devastating to Russia? Because refineries can't be hidden the way ammo dumps can — they're centralized, immobile,...