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 reports that a ground worker found an explosive-laden drone on the secure cargo apron at Leipzig/Halle Airport, beside a Ukrainian Antonov...
Reuben F. Johnson relays Garry Kasparov's Telegraph op-ed arguing Europe has still not acknowledged it is at war with Russia, pointing to a sanctions...
Reuben F. Johnson reports that an official with Ukraine's Defense Intelligence Service says a North Korean missile unit has begun deploying personnel, missiles and...
Reuben F. Johnson relays an American Purpose essay arguing Putin's central problem is manpower: volunteer numbers are sliding, the prison route has been used,...
Reuben F. Johnson reports on retired Adm. Mark Montgomery and his co-authors, whose new book documents more than six hundred instances of cooperation among...
Reuben F. Johnson traces the ownership of Wildberries, the Russian e-commerce giant Kyiv has been striking, to figures inside the Presidential Administration. Citing exiled...
Reuben F. Johnson reports on the fallout from the Moscow restaurant bombing, citing Quincy Institute fellow Mark Episkopos on the 'dangerous security blind spot'...