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Key Points – The Iowa-class battleships—Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were the US Navy’s largest and last battleships, designed in the late 1930s with...
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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
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,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Denmark's auditors checked the F-35 math for the first time in nearly a decade — and found a 25 percent surprise the warnings had...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The letter was brutal: the Treasury "unwilling to commit the resources the nation needs to defend the country." Britain's defense secretary quit — and...
Ukraine War
The verdict now comes from retired American generals and the former head of the DIA: Ukraine is "operationally winning." Russia's units can't communicate in...
Ukraine War
Russia still advances — at less than 8 percent of last year's pace, by ISW's count. Meanwhile every soldier it recruits is a worker...
Ukraine War
The war has now outlasted World War One — trenches, attrition, advances of 75 meters a day. "World War I, but fought with drones,"...
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
"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...
Dollars and Sense
Last year’s NDAA included right-to-repair provisions written into it by both the House and the Senate. However, those provisions were ultimately removed from the...
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...
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Eight Key Facts Of the Air Force’s B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber The B-21 Raider will be a dual-capable penetrating strike stealth bomber capable of...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – Russia’s Akula II-class nuclear-powered attack submarine Vepr (K-157), a late Cold War-era design, remains a versatile and potent asset despite the...