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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...
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Dollars and Sense
Defense expert Harrison Kass examines why months of strikes, blockades, and diplomacy haven't reopened the Strait of Hormuz: Iran spent decades building dispersed, survivable...
Dollars and Sense
Trump declared Monday that the U.S. will 'probably run' the Strait of Hormuz, reinstating a blockade on Iranian-linked shipping while keeping the waterway open...
The Treaty
Former Pentagon official Dr. Michael Rubin warns that as the Iran war resumes, Washington's oldest 'magic formula' — backing ethnic separatism to fragment Iran...
Dollars and Sense
The U.S. and its Gulf partners are racing to bypass the Strait of Hormuz — the UAE doubling its pipeline capacity, Saudi Arabia expanding...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Hours after ten nations agreed in Paris to build Europe's Integrated Anti-Ballistic Missile Coalition, Russian ballistic missiles set fires across two Kyiv districts —...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Zelenskyy wants 100 Patriot interceptors a month — 300 for winter — but global PAC-3 MSE production sits near 500 a year, throttled by...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
A new phase of the war: with the ground fight stalemated, the decisive duel has moved to the sky, where Zelenskyy says territory size...
Ukraine War
Telegraph reporting says Russian recruitment has run dry: roughly 1,080 daily sign-ups against higher daily losses, collapsed bonuses, North Korean units at 50% casualties,...
Ukraine War
Putin warned Monday that Russia's responses to Ukraine's strike campaign will be 'mirrored, only several times more powerful' — while refusing to say how....
Ukraine War
Ukraine downed a Russian Su-35 over Kursk in what officials describe as an integrated trap — an F-16 flying a decoy bombing pattern to...
The Treaty
President Trump warned Friday that 1,000 missiles are 'locked and loaded' against Iran, with orders already delivered to the Pentagon, should Tehran attempt to...
The Treaty
Israel's warning of a fresh Iranian plot to kill Trump is credibly reported — and unconfirmed, undetailed, and viewed by some U.S. officials as...
The Treaty
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has collapsed to a crawl — just five ships tracked Wednesday, down from 45 on Monday — with...
Dollars and Sense
U.S. strikes pounded Iran's southern coastline for five hours Monday night, clearing the way for the naval blockade resuming at 4 p.m. Tuesday. During...
Dollars and Sense
Russia's Agriculture Ministry says grain will move by land and alternative ports after Ukrainian drones hit 11 more vessels overnight — 116 in nine...
Dollars and Sense
Russia is bolting land-based jammers, small-target radar, and anti-drone netting onto its warships as Ukraine's maritime drone campaign chokes the Sea of Azov. Civilian...
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...