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.
Confidential Ukrainian military audits obtained by the New York Times amount to an autopsy of the country's weapons contracting: most purchases ran through middlemen...
Putin has admitted a monumental miscalculation: the Kremlin assumed its oil refineries were civilian sites no one would strike — 'we were mistaken,' he...
Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo halted flights for a second consecutive night, with hundreds of delays logged across the capital's network. Ukraine says it will step...
Russia's Investigative Committee says it has opened a case into attempted murder and arms trafficking after an attack on a serviceman in Engels, and...
The incident has embarrassed the administration of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at a time when it is facing investigations into corruption among senior officials...
Johnson adds two chapters to the FT's C430L revelations: the Russian design bureau covertly helping Iran build supersonic cruise missiles is the same one...
Ukraine hit Russian oil refineries eighteen times in August, including one of Russia's five largest, and a July strike destroyed more than four-fifths of...