The Treaty
No one familiar with the increasingly dangerous escalation along Israel’s northern border seems to doubt that war between the Jewish state and Hezbollah is...
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Ukraine War
Johnson details the 'ballistic missile lab': Russian engineers refined North Korea's KN-23 through live combat launches — CEP shrinking from 0.6-1.9 miles in December...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
After Ukrainian drones struck an Iranian-linked vessel and a Russian warship over 500 miles away in the Caspian, Iran's FM called Zelensky a 'freeloader,'...
North Korea Talk
Brandon Weichert ties Zelensky's unverified claim — Russia seeking 30,000 more North Korean troops, atop roughly 14,000 deployed now — to Gen. Xavier Brunson's...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Professor Andrew Latham reads the blockade numbers: non-Iranian Hormuz transits collapsed to a fraction of last year's while Iran-linked traffic barely dipped, moving inside...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Zelensky says Ukrainian intelligence expects Russia to draft up to half a million additional troops after September's parliamentary elections. The Kremlin has said nothing...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
A new CSIS analysis puts American air defense stocks below a thousand missiles, down from more than two thousand before the war with Iran....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Ukraine's armed forces spent a day braced for an Iranian ballistic missile strike after Kyiv hit an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian, according...
Ukraine War
Russian refining has dropped to its lowest recorded level since 2005, according to EA Analytics, which estimates output from satellite monitoring and cargo tracking...
Ukraine War
Zelensky says Russia could draft between three hundred thousand and half a million troops after September's elections. A Russian opposition outlet reports some would...
Ukraine War
Zelensky asked Washington for three hundred PAC-3 missiles before winter, and Trump offered a license to build them in Ukraine instead. Analysts say the...
The Treaty
Trump and Netanyahu met at the White House for roughly ninety minutes, their first face-to-face talks since the campaign against Iran began five months...
The Treaty
America's stockpile of Patriot interceptors has fallen to roughly a third of its prewar level, and the New York Times reports the shortage helped...
The Treaty
Russia's fuel crisis is deepening: Altai limits drivers to one fill-up every 24 hours — 30 liters max — plate numbers logged; Novak admits...
Dollars and Sense
Iran has rejected Oman's proposal to split control of the Strait of Hormuz evenly, demanding instead that the inbound lane sit entirely in Iranian...
Dollars and Sense
The Atlantic reports that China is the main reason oil prices have not spiked during the war with Iran, after it sharply cut purchases...
Dollars and Sense
Regional sources tell Reuters the Houthis are weighing transit fees on ships crossing the Bab el-Mandeb, a week after declaring an embargo on Saudi...
North Korea Talk
North Korea and Russia are finishing their first-ever road bridge, officially economic but believed to be a covert military supply route—trucks are far harder...
North Korea Talk
Zelenskyy says Russia wants another 30,000 North Korean troops, with preparations underway in Voronezh since June — though he offered no sources and the...
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...
Ukraine War
North Korea will apparently send soldiers to Ukraine’s Russian-occupied territories as part of the mutual defense pact signed recently by Kim Jung Un and...
The Treaty
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...