Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – Ukraine is using artificial intelligence to bolster its strained and overworked air defense network against Russian aerial assaults. -A system called...
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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...
Dollars and Sense
Before the bombs, officials were already warning that parts of Tehran — ten million people — might someday need evacuating. The reservoirs hit 12...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Taking Kharg Island is the easy part — helicopters and Ospreys could do it. Holding it is the trap, one professor warns, and a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Trump threatened this morning to seize Kharg Island and take control of Iran's oil markets. The seizure would succeed in a day. Then several...
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The reported deal frees billions, punts every nuclear question into a 60-day window — and Iran keeps "sovereignty" over Hormuz. One analyst's translation: here...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
It first flew when Nixon was president — a bundle of gambles: fly-by-wire, the side-stick, the bubble canopy. Fifty years and 4,600 airframes later,...
Ukraine War
Putin called Crimea his "unsinkable aircraft carrier." As Russia's vacation season opens, the carrier rations gasoline — twenty liters a week, by prepaid coupon,...
Ukraine War
Zelensky's 2022 vow — the war "must end with Crimea" — sounded like a slogan for four years. Then Ukraine's drone commander told Reuters:...
Ukraine War
Nine miles from Chernobyl, a Russian drone struck the site storing Ukraine's spent nuclear fuel. The IAEA's verdict: "very fragile." Two weeks earlier, Moscow...
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...
The Treaty
Iran's state media kept score: thirty-eight times, a deal was declared imminent. But claim thirty-nine came with something the other thirty-eight didn't — a...
The Treaty
Five Miles Long, Three Wide — and Holding Up Iran’s Entire War: The Island America Says It Will Take
Five miles long, three wide — and Iran's whole war runs through it. A declassified CIA file called Kharg Island the most vital point...
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 —...
Dollars and Sense
The secret tanker operation is real — 200 ships, 100 million barrels, by the president's own count. Now do the division: about 3.3 million...
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 – In promised retaliation for Ukraine’s “Operation Spiderweb” drone strike, Russia launched a massive overnight aerial assault on Ukrainian cities on Friday,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points: Russia possesses the world’s largest nuclear arsenal (5,580 warheads) and has repeatedly threatened escalation over the Ukraine war. -While the probability of...