Ukraine War
Ukraine's drone campaign against Russian refineries is rippling into Europe: diesel prices have surged to their highest since April after Moscow banned exports through...
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Ukraine War
Most likely to bring Putin to his knees is Ukraine’s progressive strangulation of Crimea. If Russian soldiers and civilians continue to flee the peninsula,...
Ukraine War
The Nuclear Stigma Has Held for Eighty Years: A Single Tactical Nuke in the Ukraine War Could End It
The case against tactical nuclear use is not only humanitarian. If such weapons are shown to accomplish what the largest conventional munitions cannot, every...
The Treaty
American nonproliferation policy treats the spread of nuclear weapons as uniformly destabilising. A body of scholarship associated with Kenneth Waltz and Christopher Layne holds...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
As one Ukrainian defense industry executive told National Security Journal recently, “NATO now needs us more than we need them.”
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
One new appointee led the assault on Kyiv and the Kursk counterattack. The other reportedly planned Avdiivka's fall and now runs Russia's drones. The...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The numbers behind the blowup: roughly 800 Patriot interceptors left of 2,330, THAAD stocks slashed, ATACMS nearly gone, Tomahawks at half of plan —...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Somebody is wrong. The Pentagon insists the force is "locked and loaded." The inventory reports say America burned through more missiles in a month...
Ukraine War
A seafood shop bombed, a vegetable seller chased down the street on camera, a children's hospital struck while its patients sheltered below. Ukrainians now...
Ukraine War
The math is merciless: Lockheed's 600 Patriots a year against Russia's 700 Iskanders and counting. With winter's grid war coming, Kyiv's president is quiet...
Ukraine War
The campaign was expected to run 40 days. It's still going — same refineries, hit again and again, because every repeat strike proves Russia...
The Treaty
The war was pitched as four days to five weeks. Six months later, Hormuz is still closed, the Houthis hold Bab el-Mandeb, and Iran's...
The Treaty
Oil traders aren't celebrating yet — the last agreement collapsed within weeks. This one reportedly gives Iran a level of control over the world's...
The Treaty
Steve Balestrieri reports that Trump wants an Iran-Oman deal on the strait within a day, warning of what he calls decapitation strikes and describing...
Dollars and Sense
Russia doesn't have enough air defenses to guard Moscow, its nuclear sites, and its refineries all at once. Every choice leaves something exposed —...
Dollars and Sense
Russia banned fuel exports, started importing gasoline, and watched pump prices climb by nearly a fifth — while a former Russian oil executive says...
Dollars and Sense
Trump says we'll know within 48 hours — the strait opens "very soon," or Iran gets "hit very hard." But the fine print holds...
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...
North Korea Talk
North Korea and Russia are finishing their first-ever road bridge, officially economic but believed to be a covert military supply route—trucks are far harder...
Ukraine War
Russia banned diesel exports through July 31 and began importing fuel — an extraordinary step for a top oil producer — after Ukrainian drones...
Ukraine War
Zelensky Just Made His Case to NATO: ‘Do You Really Believe It Would Be Right to Leave Ukraine Out?’
At the NATO summit in Ankara, Zelensky pressed the alliance to admit Ukraine, arguing its battle-hardened, drone-driven military would make NATO stronger. But membership...