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This week’s 75th anniversary NATO summit finds the alliance as critical to global security as it has been at almost any time in its history....
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Dollars and Sense
The outrage over firing a costly missile at a cheap drone misses the point, Dr. Andrew Latham argues: the problem is not the price...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Three tankers loaded with Saudi crude for Asia reversed course in the Red Sea on Tuesday and headed for Suez instead. Nobody fired at...
North Korea Talk
For years Beijing said it wanted both stability and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula. Stability always ranked higher, but the second goal was at...
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
A B-1B departed RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on Wednesday and flew a mission against Iran, tracked by open-source flight watchers. An outlet linked to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Satellite imagery examined by the New York Times shows damage at American installations in Jordan, Bahrain and Iraq, including the Fifth Fleet's headquarters. The...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
A Stimson Center analyst describes the Iran campaign as a mow-the-lawn cycle: strike, wait for capabilities to regrow, strike again. Satellite imagery suggests American...
Ukraine War
Russia and Ukraine traded strikes far beyond the front line on Thursday, with deaths reported on both sides. Zelensky says the Wildberries warehouses Ukraine...
Ukraine War
Putin has declared his forces will take the rest of Donetsk by year's end, but at their current rate of advance the job would...
Ukraine War
Ukraine launched a raid of more than two hundred drones across several Russian regions overnight, striking a Wildberries logistics hub, a refinery, and a...
The Treaty
For most of the war, ordinary Russians in the big cities watched it from a distance. Fuel queues and the burning of Wildberries warehouses...
The Treaty
An Economist/YouGov poll conducted July 17 through 20 found roughly a third of Americans approve of Trump's job performance and three in five disapprove,...
The Treaty
Pakistan shares a long border with Iran and once traded briskly across it. Since the war began that border has opened and closed repeatedly,...
Dollars and Sense
Europe has agreed its twenty-first and largest Russia sanctions package in four years, cutting ninety-four financial institutions off from SWIFT and freezing the oil...
Dollars and Sense
Russia is taking delivery of gasoline from India and Belarus after Ukrainian strikes cut roughly two-fifths of its refining capacity. The country still pumps...
Dollars and Sense
Ukrainian strikes on refineries have left Russians waiting in gasoline lines, with fistfights breaking out and wealthy drivers hiring stand-ins to hold their places....
North Korea Talk
Pyongyang promised Moscow it will stay until victory. Moscow promised something back — and Beijing is watching its hold on Kim slip away.
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s Los Angeles-class submarines, built in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, remain essential to the fleet today. Designed...
The Treaty
The president of the United States oversees both domestic and foreign policy. When the president is incapacitated, the dirty little secret is that domestic...