Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Soviet Union’s Project 705 Lira, or Alfa-class, was a technologically brilliant but deeply flawed submarine. -Thanks to its...
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Ukraine War
The numbers in a new CSIS study are almost too large to grasp: over 2 million casualties, 450,000 Russians dead — more than four...
Ukraine War
Ukraine's commander-in-chief says Putin has ordered his General Staff to draw up options for a new offensive — one launched from Belarus, aimed at...
Dollars and Sense
Everyone is watching the Strait of Hormuz for oil. The bigger threat moving through it feeds the world: the natural gas and sulfur behind...
Ukraine War
When Putin admitted Russia's fuel shortages, he meant to look like a state in control. Instead he confirmed what Ukraine has quietly engineered: not...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
When Washington launched its operation to break Iran's grip on the Strait of Hormuz, it counted on Saudi bases — and Riyadh said no....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Behind the scenes, Trump has been preparing for the war with Iran to restart. Per a Wall Street Journal report, he held repeated talks...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Trump reportedly came close to restarting the war with Iran this week — then met with his military advisers, didn't like what he heard,...
Ukraine War
Ukraine struck again overnight, setting fires at one of Russia's biggest refineries — a critical hub feeding fuel to the country's central regions. The...
Ukraine War
The scenes inside Russia look like the 1990s again: fuel lines, siphoning, fistfights at gas stations where gasoline runs $2.42 a liter — when...
Ukraine War
Putin conceded Ukraine's strikes are "creating problems" and ordered a crash program to build more air defense missiles — Russia's S-300 interceptors are running...
The Treaty
The war devastated Iran — its supreme leader killed, its navy and missile forces decimated, its economy in freefall. Yet Tehran limped on and...
The Treaty
On the very day U.S.-Iran peace talks opened in Doha, the threats hit a new level: Israel's defense minister declared Iran's supreme leader effectively...
The Treaty
Trump's national security team has reportedly presented him with options to resume all-out war on Iran — one of them an amphibious and airborne...
Dollars and Sense
For the first time since the war shut it down, Saudi Arabia's oil is pouring back through the Strait of Hormuz — five supertankers...
Dollars and Sense
Everyone expected $150 oil when Iran choked the Strait of Hormuz. Instead prices keep falling — and one contrarian forecast says they could crash...
Dollars and Sense
Iran has turned the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway carrying a fifth of the world's oil — into a chokehold. It's clogged with...
North Korea Talk
North Korea stalled, negotiated, and built the bomb anyway — and its 2022 doctrine orders everything launched if its leaders are ever struck. Kim...
North Korea Talk
The recent North Korea–China summit highlights Beijing’s increasing concern over Moscow’s growing influence in Pyongyang. Since the Ukraine war began, Russia and North Korea...
North Korea Talk
Manila, Philippines – On the occasion of his visit to Pyongyang, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping has received one of the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The U.S. Air Force and Space Force have completed their largest joint exercise in the Pacific since the Cold War, a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – Russian forces have launched their first large-scale incursion into Ukraine’s key industrial region of Dnipropetrovsk, which had previously been a relative...