Dollars and Sense
Key Points – President Trump’s second administration is making a determined effort to strengthen presidential power, potentially undermining the US system of checks and...
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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
Twenty-five bidders are down to two, the decision lands within weeks, and the price approaches sixty billion dollars. Yet Canada's great submarine debate is...
The Treaty
America started the Iran war — and is now being sidelined from it, as Israel and Iran trade strikes on their own schedules. One...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Most people missed it: in 2025, Ukraine offered to give up its NATO dream — but only in exchange for binding security guarantees. The...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
America Missed It: China’s J-35 Is Headed to Every Carrier in China’s Fleet – Most analysts believed that China’s fifth-generation carrier-based warplane, the Shenyang...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The president confirmed it himself, on live TV: 22 ships ran Hormuz in the dark because Iran's radar is gone. The same day he...
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,"...
Ukraine War
Russians call it the Novorossiya route — their last working supply road to Crimea. It has a newer name now: the Highway of Death....
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...
The Treaty
While much of Western Europe caves to anti-Israel agitators, Czechia’s new conservative government is showing the kind of moral clarity, national confidence, and political...
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...
Dollars and Sense
Washington says traffic through Hormuz is "rising very meaningfully." The tracking data says four ships made it through on Tuesday — and on Wednesday,...
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...
North Korea Talk
Summary and Key Points: Four years into a war the Kremlin expected to win in weeks, Russia is leaning on North Korean soldiers to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The US Navy is in the final stages of selecting a contractor (Boeing or Northrop Grumman) for its F/A-XX sixth-generation carrier-launched...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – South Korean shipbuilders Hyundai Heavy Industries and Hanwha Ocean are actively marketing the advanced KSS-III (Dosan Ahn Changho-class) diesel-electric attack submarine...