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.
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia mounted its largest mechanised assault in months against Ukrainian positions in Donetsk on 22 July, and Ukrainian reconnaissance drones detected the columns forming....
A Jamestown Foundation essay by Taras Kuzio argues Russia's defense industrial base has expanded since 2022 despite Western sanctions, citing intermediary states, parallel imports...
Russian refining has dropped to its lowest recorded level since 2005, according to EA Analytics, which estimates output from satellite monitoring and cargo tracking...
Writing in the Telegraph, retired Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon argues Ukraine has out-thought Russia at intelligence. Later reporting cited in the piece says Ukrainian...
Known for his imperious nature, the Governor of the Rostov-na-Donu region, Yuri Slyusar, was once one of the most powerful figures in the Russian defense industrial sector....
Ukraine's intelligence service says it destroyed an S-400 launcher and radar in occupied Crimea, part of a two-year campaign that has wiped out most...
Johnson details the 'ballistic missile lab': Russian engineers refined North Korea's KN-23 through live combat launches — CEP shrinking from 0.6-1.9 miles in December...
Johnson tracks the reversed quid pro quo: after years of Chinese gear, drones, and Belarus-routed components propping up Russia's war, Moscow now repays Beijing...
Johnson traces the cocoon around Putin: ex-TV executive Dmitri Skorobutov says Rossiya-1 editors stay after hours to cut a 'Putin Eyes Only' newscast for...