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.
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The warnings from Washington keep coming, sources close to Poland's president say: Russia is planning an armed "provocation" against Poland — missiles on power...
The image says everything: Russian soldiers walking 19 miles to reach their own positions, because Ukraine has destroyed the logistics behind them. Ukraine's defense...
There continues to be confusion about just what weapon Ukraine fired at Moscow on Tuesday, 30 June, during a missile alert. Russia’s Defense Ministry (MoD)...
A new IISS report lays out an alarming pattern: 144 Russian drone incursions across 13 European countries in 15 months — over nuclear-sharing sites,...
Putin's paranoia is showing. For the fourth time since invading Ukraine, he's expanding his personal protection service — a 50,000-strong apparatus where officers taste...
Ukraine's drones are overwhelming Russia's air defenses so completely that soldiers have been filmed firing assault rifles at them from the ground — and...