Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Russia’s only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, remains plagued by challenges despite promises of a return. -After years of repairs marked...
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The Treaty
The KMT is betting that Taiwanese voters, rattled by a decade of rising tensions, want a less confrontational hand on cross-strait relations. Ted Galen...
The Treaty
The Iran war has entered a more dangerous phase: six consecutive nights of US airstrikes on missile sites, coastal defenses, and energy infrastructure, answered...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Trump is threatening to strike Pickaxe Mountain — Iran's underground nuclear complex a mile from Natanz — if Tehran doesn't deescalate. Analysts say its...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Wednesday a Russian recruit's average life expectancy on the battlefield is twenty to thirty minutes, crediting Ukraine's AI-powered drones....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China's H-6 bomber might be old in design, but the upgrades make a big difference.
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The H-20 stealth bomber was supposed to China's answer to the B-2 Spirit or maybe even the B-21. So far, nothing.
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
A fifty-ton, three-engine, tailless giant flew for eighteen months before Beijing admitted it exists — meet the J-36, in one word.
Ukraine War
Four hundred drones over Moscow, seven shadow-fleet ships hit at sea, a ferry line reduced to towed barges — the weekend's full ledger.
Ukraine War
Zelensky is trying to contain a military and political crisis after dismissing Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, the reformer behind Ukraine's drone campaign. A July...
Ukraine War
Russia says Ukraine sent more than 400 drones toward Moscow and its surrounding region overnight into July 20 — the third major wave in...
The Treaty
Donald Trump entered the Iran war with more opposition than support, and nearly five months of fighting have made the political problem worse. The...
The Treaty
Iraq moved about a million tons of fuel oil by truck through Syria and Jordan in June — double May's volume — as Gulf...
The Treaty
A new Economist/YouGov poll finds that 57 percent of Americans believe the Iran war was the wrong decision, compared with 27 percent who support...
Dollars and Sense
Russia struck the Guinea-Bissau-flagged Golden Leo with three cruise missiles off Odesa on July 20, Ukrainian officials said, killing nine sailors from India and...
Dollars and Sense
Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed two oil tankers exploded on mines south of the Strait of Hormuz and warned sailors to stay out; CENTCOM dismissed...
Dollars and Sense
Oil prices never hit the feared stratosphere during the Iran War for a hidden reason: China pulled back from the market, living off vast...
North Korea Talk
North Korea's foreign minister promised Putin on July 19 that Pyongyang will back Russia until victory — a pledge already embedded in the war....
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
On June 26, 2024, the North Koreans conducted a test of what they called MIRV technology. Pyongyang claimed the test “aimed at securing the...
Ukraine War
Too often, as Ukraine faces Russia’s onslaught, the Biden administration undermines it publicly. In the days prior to the 2022 invasion, for example, White...