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Ukraine War
Putin Is Slowly Running Out of Men to Fight in Ukraine — And the Math Is Finally Turning Against Him
Summary and Key Points: Something shifted on the Russian side of the front line over the winter. After three years of feeding fresh recruits...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: In June 2025’s Operation Midnight Hammer, seven B-2 stealth bombers flew a 36-hour, 12,000-mile round trip from Missouri to strike...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: America’s network of major bases across Asia — its biggest bet for deterring China — now sits within range of...
Ukraine War
A growing set of problems with Russia’s war in Ukraine may be pushing the Kremlin to launch a serious escalation of its military effort....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: On May 29, 2026, a Russian drone struck an apartment building in Galați, Romania, wounding two — the first time...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: A U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down over Iran in April — the first U.S. fighter downed by ground...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The M551 Sheridan was one of the U.S. Army’s most ambitious tanks: light enough to parachute onto a battlefield, able to swim rivers, and...
Ukraine War
Summary and Key Points: The invasion of Ukraine is uniquely Putin’s project — conceived, ordered, and justified by one man — raising a serious...
Ukraine War
Summary and Key Points: Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine was centered on armored columns racing toward Kyiv. Instead, Russian tanks became the war’s most...
Ukraine War
Summary and Key Points: Russia’s war on Ukraine is devouring its finances. War spending now totals 16.8 trillion roubles ($238 billion) — nearly 40%...
The Treaty
Summary and Key Points: On June 23, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group — a private army the Kremlin itself had built — seized the...
The Treaty
Three months into his war with Iran, President Trump faces a fork in the road. Thousands of American and Israeli strikes have killed Iranian...
The Treaty
Even if the Trump administration secures a 60-day ceasefire that reopens the Strait of Hormuz, the world will still suffer economic damage from the...
Dollars and Sense
Summary and Key Points: The B-47 Stratojet is one of the least-celebrated Cold War bombers — and one of the most influential. -To build...
Dollars and Sense
Summary and Key Points: In 1983, the USS Enterprise — the world’s first nuclear-powered carrier — was returning from a Pacific deployment when it...
Dollars and Sense
Summary and Key Points: The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has removed roughly a billion barrels of oil from the market, triggering 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...
North Korea Talk
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on May 21 that Chinese President Xi Jinping may travel to Pyongyang as early as next week, according...
North Korea Talk
MANILA – Russia has paid North Korea up to $ 14.4 billion in military aid since 2023. The figure is roughly equivalent to North...
Dollars and Sense
One of the critical elements of modern warfare, reinforced by the war in Ukraine, is the importance of air superiority and the need to...
North Korea Talk
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. could intercept incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) using advanced and developing missile defense technologies. -Ground-based interceptors in Alaska...