Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
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Ukraine War
Western media is celebrating Ukraine's burning-refinery strikes as proof the war has turned. This contrarian analysis urges caution: we heard the same after "Russia's...
Ukraine War
Fresh off a week on Ukraine's front lines, analyst Michael Rubin makes a provocative case ahead of the NATO summit: the alliance now needs...
Ukraine War
The numbers in a new CSIS study are almost too large to grasp: over 2 million casualties, 450,000 Russians dead — more than four...
Ukraine War
Ukraine's commander-in-chief says Putin has ordered his General Staff to draw up options for a new offensive — one launched from Belarus, aimed at...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Something flew toward Moscow at unusually high altitude — and Russia's own Defense Ministry confirmed intercepting a "long-range operational-tactical missile," without saying whose. Russian...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, just completed its longest deployment ever — 40 days at sea, sailed provocatively near Japan as a signal...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
A new IISS report lays out an alarming pattern: 144 Russian drone incursions across 13 European countries in 15 months — over nuclear-sharing sites,...
Ukraine War
The signs from Crimea are unmistakable: civilians fleeing, fuel sales banned, and now unconfirmed reports of documents and military hardware being shipped back to...
Ukraine War
Ukraine offered to stop its drone campaign if Russia halted its own long-range strikes. Putin's rejection was chillingly frank: our strikes hurt more. A...
Ukraine War
Russia answered Ukraine's refinery strikes with fury: nearly 500 drones and 74 missiles slammed into Kyiv overnight in one of the largest air assaults...
The Treaty
NBC News reported that Iran and Oman presented the United States with a proposal to administer the Strait of Hormuz, including jointly collecting fees...
The Treaty
The Iran war is hitting your wallet whether you noticed or not: about $1,000 per household so far, by Moody's chief economist's "conservative" estimate...
The Treaty
The war devastated Iran — its supreme leader killed, its navy and missile forces decimated, its economy in freefall. Yet Tehran limped on and...
Dollars and Sense
The oil crisis grabbed the headlines. The food crisis may be the one that lasts. The Strait of Hormuz carries a third of the...
Dollars and Sense
The Iran War's biggest winner never fired a shot. While America drained its emergency oil reserve to a four-decade low, China sat on 1.4...
Dollars and Sense
For the first time since the war shut it down, Saudi Arabia's oil is pouring back through the Strait of Hormuz — five supertankers...
North Korea Talk
North Korea stalled, negotiated, and built the bomb anyway — and its 2022 doctrine orders everything launched if its leaders are ever struck. Kim...
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...
Dollars and Sense
Spy balloons are bad. But let's worry a little more about the overall rise of China and its military capabilities because that is the...
The Treaty
Would Australia ever consider a purchase or even leasing older, U.S. navy nuclear-powered attack submarines? The idea seemed almost crazy nearly ten years ago...