Reuben F. Johnson has thirty-six years of experience analyzing and reporting on foreign weapons systems, defense technologies, and international arms export policy. He is also a survivor of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He worked for years in the American defense industry as a foreign technology analyst and later as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Defense, the Departments of the Navy and Air Force, and the governments of the United Kingdom and Australia. In 2022-2023, he won two awards in a row for his defense reporting. He holds a bachelor's degree from DePauw University and a master's degree from Miami University in Ohio, specializing in Soviet and Russian studies. He lives in Warsaw.
Key Points and Summary – Germany is war-gaming a mass-casualty scenario—up to 1,000 wounded soldiers per day—amid Russian airspace violations and warnings of possible...
Key Points and Summary – After Russian MiG-31s violated Estonian airspace for 12 minutes, NATO scrambled Italian F-35s and Tallinn invoked Article 4. -Czech...
Key Points and Summary – South Korean intelligence reports say Russia has provided North Korea with two to three nuclear-submarine propulsion modules—reportedly lifted from...
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s war and Zapad-25 drills sharpen Baltic fears of a strike through the Suwałki Gap—the narrow corridor linking Poland...