Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – Russia’s T-14 Armata, despite being touted as a revolutionary main battle tank, is a deeply troubled program whose future is in...
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The Treaty
Trump declared the "Immediate, Complete, and Total" opening of the strait on August 1. Days later Iran's foreign ministry is still describing a reopening...
The Treaty
Trump calls it a chess game and says he's only semi-negotiating. Meanwhile the demands Iran once reserved for nuclear talks are attached to the...
Ukraine War
The alliance's mutual-defense clause has been triggered once in seventy-six years, after 9/11. It was written before cyberwarfare existed, and that ambiguity is exactly...
Ukraine War
The likeliest place is a narrow corridor between Kaliningrad and Belarus — NATO's only land route to the Baltics. The goal wouldn't be territory....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Every crisis has taken a bigger bite. Seventeen million barrels for the Gulf War, twenty-one after Katrina, thirty-one for Libya, a hundred and eighty...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Washington threatened to make the Houthis pay and now seems content to let the Saudis handle it. Meanwhile Iran holds one chokepoint, the Houthis...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The traffic runs both ways. Russian instructors are reportedly in North Korea teaching drone and air-defense operations, and helping Pyongyang set up production of...
Ukraine War
The label costs a family everything: the death benefit stops, the monthly payments never start, and the children lose their school placements. She asks...
Ukraine War
Pyongyang went into this war with almost no combat experience. It is coming out with battle-tested troops, Russian design help, and missiles that hit...
Ukraine War
Eighteen refineries hit in July, thirty attacks on oil infrastructure since, tankers and pipelines and ports among them. Yet Russian troops are closing on...
The Treaty
Neither side can force the other to fold, and neither is talking directly anymore. Iran has survived two rounds of maximum pressure already. Meanwhile...
The Treaty
Withdraw the forces, lift the blockade, drop the sanctions, release the frozen assets, pay for the damage, and stop the threats. That's Tehran's price....
The Treaty
Washington says it will lift the blockade and let Iran sell oil again. Tehran's foreign minister says that still isn't enough to open the...
Dollars and Sense
Both sides now want to be paid. Tehran demands reparations for war damage; Trump says Iran should compensate the families of protesters it killed...
Dollars and Sense
Eight million barrels a night sounds enormous until you set it beside the 21 million a day that crossed Hormuz before the war. Tehran...
Dollars and Sense
The administration says 8 to 8.5 million barrels move through the strait each night. An independent tracking firm counts closer to 3 million a...
North Korea Talk
Through its long war against Ukraine, Russia has received reinforcements from North Korea. Now, more of that is on the way. According to The...
North Korea Talk
Reuben F. Johnson reports that an official with Ukraine's Defense Intelligence Service says a North Korean missile unit has begun deploying personnel, missiles and...
North Korea Talk
Jack Buckby reports that Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate told Reuters a North Korean missile unit has begun deploying to Russia's Voronezh region, potentially bringing...
Ukraine War
Key Points – While Russia’s high casualties and the attritional nature of the Ukraine war draw comparisons to its collapse in World War I,...
Ukraine War
Key Points – Reports from the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, known for its Russian security service sources, suggest that officers in Russia’s Black Sea Fleet...