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.
Reuben F. Johnson argues Putin's remaining strategy is to out-suffer Ukraine: the economist fired for saying Russia is falling behind, ISW data showing stalled...
The Financial Times reported in May that he was spending more time underground, micromanaging the war and detached from ordinary governance, with fears of...
Russian trade associations count more than 400,000 sellers hit by the warehouse campaign, with combined losses put at up to $8.4 billion. Petrol sales...
The two damaged frigates carry Kalibr cruise missiles, the weapons fired at Ukrainian cities since 2022. Kyiv's tools were jet-powered drones, Neptune anti-ship missiles...
Reuben F. Johnson reports Poland's ABW, tipped by US intelligence, arrested a Russian national accused of plotting to assassinate a dual US-Ukrainian citizen in...
On the night of 14 August, Ukrainian forces hit the Ust-Luga port in Russia’s Leningrad Oblast, the region that encompasses Russia’s second city, St. Petersburg. The...
A Fox report details a 'dangerous new front': the executives and engineers behind drone technology are being hunted. A Russian FPV-drone boss was critically...