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 traces how Ukraine converted its surplus Soviet S-200 anti-aircraft missiles into improvised land-attack ballistic weapons, first discussed off the record early...
Reuben F. Johnson relays retired Admiral Mark Montgomery's argument, made in the Washington Post, that Kyiv must move from deflecting Russian missiles to shooting...
Reuben F. Johnson relays Jamestown Foundation analyst Paul Goble's argument that drone strikes are far from the only threat to Russian oil: aging Soviet-era...
Reuben F. Johnson reports on the Moscow bombing that appeared to target VKS commander Aleksandr Chayko at a private gathering reportedly in his honor....
Zelensky warned on the twenty-ninth that Ukrainian services expected a large Russian attack that night, and ballistic missiles struck Kyiv in the early hours....