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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Russia has become the most important enabler of North Korea’s nuclear program, according to a 38North assessment published May 13. International Atomic Energy Agency...
U.S. Undersecretary of War Elbridge Colby announced May 18 that the Pentagon was pausing its participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, the...
Russia is heading toward a crippling shortage of working-age men to fill both military ranks and defense factory lines, according to Alexander Kolyandr of...
A war between Poland and Russia’s long-time close ally Belarus could break out at any time, say Polish defense officials. The frontline NATO-member nation...
Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced on May 18 that Ukraine has deployed its first domestically built glide bomb — the Vyrivniuvach, or Equalizer...
As after-action reporting from President Donald Trump’s two-day whirlwind visit to the People’s Republic of China continues, one of the lesser-noticed details was what...
Typically, discussions about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) having weapons of mass destruction (WMD) center on the issue of its nuclear weapons...
On 9 May, when Russian President Vladimir Putin was presiding over his annual Victory in WWII parade, the combined lack of any meaningful dignitaries,...