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.
Stephen Silver looks ahead to the next presidential race: a stalemated Iran war neither party can ignore, the Obama precedent waiting for an antiwar...
Reuben F. Johnson connects the threads of Ratcliffe's secret Moscow trip: Bloomberg's Kremlin sources describing a cornered Putin weighing nuclear options, Beijing's blunt ultimatum...
Kramatorsk designated an active-hostilities zone, residents numb to the drones overhead, and Putin's fifteenth self-imposed deadline to seize the region, a pledge his propagandists...
Reuben F. Johnson traces the rise and destruction of Nord Stream: Merkel's prize to Putin, the pipeline Central Europe called a new Molotov-Ribbentrop pact,...
Reuben F. Johnson reports on CIA Director John Ratcliffe's unannounced Moscow visit, tracing the aircraft's route through the base that serves America's most senior...