Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The UK’s next-generation “Tempest” stealth fighter has undergone a radical redesign, revealed at the Farnborough International Airshow. -The new...
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The Treaty
Rather than telling Europe how much to spend on its defense, the Trump administration should begin a phased military disengagement from the continent.
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Iran didn't beat the United States symmetrically — it closed the Strait of Hormuz with minimal force and kept the U.S. fleet at a...
The Treaty
"The object in war is to obtain a better peace," one scholar writes — "and a better peace has not been obtained." By his...
The Treaty
The US-Iran memorandum signed Monday isn't peace — it's a 60-day framework. And the biggest threat to it isn't at the table: Israel says...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Trump calls it the largest covert maritime operation in history. One analyst says it was a marginal workaround that exposed a defeat: to beat...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Kyiv is called the City of Golden Domes. Monday night, those domes reflected flames after a Russian strike hit the 1,000-year-old Pechersk Lavra monastery,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
One analyst counted just 203 of Russia's T-80 tanks parked outside a single plant — a snapshot of staggering losses, with Oryx tallying nearly...
Ukraine War
Russia's T-14 Armata was hailed in 2014 as its most advanced tank — the future of its armored force. A decade later it's never...
Ukraine War
The Ukraine War Is Going Badly for Russia: Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to admit that Ukrainian drone strikes are causing real...
Ukraine War
The EU's top diplomat says European authorities have verified that China's military trained Russian troops who later fought in Ukraine — calling Beijing a...
The Treaty
The Iran deal hinges on something Washington can't control: whether Israel stops fighting in Lebanon. Netanyahu says the "struggle is not over"; his security...
The Treaty
Washington says Hormuz is permanently toll-free. Iran says 60 days, then come the fees. Those positions can't both be true — and normally that...
The Treaty
Whatever gets signed in Switzerland on Friday, the war's most consequential outcome may be a conclusion forming in Tehran that no agreement can undo:...
Dollars and Sense
The Iran war may end Friday, but one shift it triggered could be permanent: the oil business moving from Hormuz to Houston. The UAE...
Dollars and Sense
The Strait of Hormuz is reopening — but the crisis may have changed the oil market for good. The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve just...
Dollars and Sense
Two weeks before the ceasefire, oil executives warned Trump that America's emergency reserves were draining fast enough to risk a crisis — the hidden...
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...
Ukraine War
Key Points and Summary – Russia unleashed one of the most intense aerial bombardments of the war on Ukraine, with a massive wave of...
Ukraine War
Key Points and Summary – Despite a recent, more aggressive peace overture from President Trump, Vladimir Putin is doubling down on his disastrous war...