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Unpacking the Capability Behind Hezbollah’s Threat to Expand its War: Less than a day after U.S. Special Envoy Amos Hochstein was in Beirut to...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia has spent two years running a deniable campaign of sabotage, cable-cutting, and cyberattacks against NATO states, a scholar argues — pressure built to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Iran's spokesmen taunt that they're 'counting down the minutes' to welcome American ground troops. Steve Balestrieri, a former Special Forces NCO, runs the numbers:...
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
Iran's Houthi allies in Yemen have declared a naval blockade on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait against Saudi Arabia, threatening a second oil chokepoint alongside...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Iran-backed Houthis have declared a maritime embargo on Saudi Arabia, threatening Red Sea shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and opening a second...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Tanker and gas-carrier traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has fallen sharply — from roughly 90 crossings to 30, by one count — as...
Ukraine War
Ukraine has struck warehouses belonging to Wildberries, Russia's answer to Amazon, in fiery attacks visible from space, the Washington Post reported. The sites help...
Ukraine War
A drone attack set fire to the NLMK steel plant in Lipetsk, Russia, overnight, Ukrainian monitoring channels reported. NLMK makes about a fifth of...
Ukraine War
Russia has struck Ukraine's state gas operator, Naftogaz, for three straight days in Kharkiv Oblast — the 250th attack on its facilities since the...
The Treaty
Iran's Revolutionary Guard struck another tanker off Oman on Tuesday, forcing its crew to abandon ship, as a tenth straight night of U.S. airstrikes...
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The U.S.-Iran war has narrowed to one battleground: the Strait of Hormuz, which once carried 140 ships a day and now sees only four...
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US forces struck Iran for a ninth consecutive night into Monday, CENTCOM said, targeting command centers, air defenses, and coastal radars — while Iran...
Dollars and Sense
Iran's Revolutionary Guard says two 'deviant' tankers exploded after passing through the Strait of Hormuz, where crews are now refusing to move, one expert...
Dollars and Sense
Iran has taken the Strait of Hormuz out of commercial use, and now its Houthi allies are blockading the Red Sea's Bab el-Mandeb —...
Dollars and Sense
A supertanker hauling about two million barrels of Saudi oil to China reversed course in the southern Red Sea under Houthi threat, Bloomberg reported,...
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...
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Is war between Hezbollah and Israel next? Against the backdrop of the October 7th attacks by the Hamas terrorist organization, Israel became embroiled in...
Dollars and Sense
When I joined the U.S. Navy in 1995, warfare was dominated by physical battlegrounds and traditional combat tactics. Today, that landscape has shifted dramatically....