Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Department of Defense has pulled the plug on one of its newest combat vehicle programs, canceling further...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Fifty fighter jets. An aircraft carrier. A submarine. And every one of America's refueling tankers in Europe. The U.S. might be pulling back the...
The Treaty
Buried at the end of Trump's announcement that the Iran war ends Sunday was a line that had nothing to do with the signing...
Ukraine War
All 32 NATO members reportedly agree on one unsettling date: 2029, when Russia could regain the power to threaten the alliance. The paradox? Russia...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Venezuela playbook worked: seize the oil, become the seller. Kharg Island breaks it on one fact — Iran's crude has a single serious...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
America's F-35 — at a lifetime cost some put above $2 trillion, the priciest weapon ever built — was fully combat-ready just 25 percent...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
"The death spiral must stop," the UN's chief told the Security Council as Russia battered Ukraine's power grid before winter. Moscow's reply: a warning...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Iran has paid a price: the Supreme Leader dead, fifty commanders gone, 55 aircraft destroyed, the navy largely wiped out. Iran has absorbed it...
Ukraine War
Russia is offering men $80,000 to fight in Ukraine and $140,000 in debt relief — and recruitment still fell 20 percent this year. For...
Ukraine War
For the first time, the cracks in Putin's rule are real — a shrinking economy, a stalled war, an elite near schism. And for...
Ukraine War
The world gave Kyiv 72 hours. A Russian outlet was so sure it published a victory article two days in — you can still...
The Treaty
The plan was so secret the Pentagon's top general flew the Atlantic rather than discuss it on an encrypted line: send U.S. troops into...
The Treaty
A White House official now puts the odds at "80 to 85 percent" — up from 75. But Washington and Tehran are still describing...
The Treaty
The signing could come Sunday in Geneva. The fight is over what gets signed: Iran's leaked version concedes almost nothing — no new nuclear...
Dollars and Sense
A deal in Geneva would end the war — not the lesson. For three months the world watched a fifth of its oil hang...
Dollars and Sense
Everyone counts Russia's dead. One analyst's uncomfortable audit runs the other ledger: Ukraine's losses far exceed the official 55,000, with many men reportedly dodging...
Dollars and Sense
"It's over for Iran," the White House declares — a claim nobody can verify. What's verifiable: the calm rests on three draining cushions —...
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 – Iran’s submarine force, while not as powerful as its Western counterparts, is a critical component of its asymmetric naval strategy designed...
The Treaty
Key Points and Summary – Despite President Trump’s declaration that US strikes “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program, significant questions remain about the operation’s long-term success....