North Korea Talk
Key Points – A new North Korean frigate recently capsized during its launch, a public embarrassment that starkly reveals the regime’s focus on “theater”...
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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
The uncomfortable truth, by this analysis: Tehran's assessment is correct. America could flatten Iran again — but the missiles it would spend are the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The morning brought a vow to turn the region into "hell" and a formal Iranian decree closing Hormuz to every ship on Earth. The...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The war in Ukraine has now lasted longer than World War One — 1,569 days and counting. Neither army can force an end, and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
One of the largest cruise missiles in development anywhere on Earth isn't American, Russian, or Chinese — it's Ukrainian, built around a repurposed passenger-jet...
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....
Ukraine War
Putin's offensive has stalled and his drone war is being lost — so analysts say he's saving his missiles for winter: a campaign built...
Ukraine War
The man Moscow once picked to rule occupied Ukraine now says the war can't be won. A former Putin adviser warns of "full-scale defeat."...
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...
The Treaty
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump publicly urged Israel not to retaliate after Iran launched ballistic missiles at the country – and it wasn’t...
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,...
Dollars and Sense
Iran's oil has never been worth more — and the regime can't sell a drop, its tanks full and its troops now going unpaid....
Dollars and Sense
This morning's CPI put inflation at 4.2 percent, the highest since 2023 — and gasoline up 40 percent points straight at the Iran war....
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 F-35 Lightning II’s combat radius of approximately 670 nautical miles, while not critically short, is increasingly viewed as a limitation, especially...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle has served the US Army effectively for over 40 years, proving its mettle in conflicts like...