Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Important Points You Need to Know: The M1 Abrams main battle tank (MBT), a cornerstone of the U.S. Army‘s arsenal for 44...
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Ukraine War
Most likely to bring Putin to his knees is Ukraine’s progressive strangulation of Crimea. If Russian soldiers and civilians continue to flee the peninsula,...
Ukraine War
The Nuclear Stigma Has Held for Eighty Years: A Single Tactical Nuke in the Ukraine War Could End It
The case against tactical nuclear use is not only humanitarian. If such weapons are shown to accomplish what the largest conventional munitions cannot, every...
The Treaty
American nonproliferation policy treats the spread of nuclear weapons as uniformly destabilising. A body of scholarship associated with Kenneth Waltz and Christopher Layne holds...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
As one Ukrainian defense industry executive told National Security Journal recently, “NATO now needs us more than we need them.”
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Andrii Cherniak of Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence reported that North Korea is sending a missile unit comprised of around North Korean personnel to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Brent M. Eastwood reports that Poland is weighing a transfer of its older MiG-29s to Ukraine in exchange for combat-proven drone technology rather than...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The US Navy decommissioned USS Fort Worth at Naval Base San Diego on 29 July 2026, nearly 14 years after commissioning — about 56...
Ukraine War
Stephen Silver reports on a New York Times op-ed by Thomas E. Graham, a former Russia adviser to George W. Bush, arguing the war...
Ukraine War
Brent M. Eastwood traces how the war has changed shape again, from trench lines to energy grids to satellites and artificial intelligence. He notes...
Ukraine War
Caleb Larson reports on an overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv in which Ukraine's Air Force says it stopped none of the...
The Treaty
Steve Balestrieri reports that Trump wants an Iran-Oman deal on the strait within a day, warning of what he calls decapitation strikes and describing...
The Treaty
Dr. Andrew Latham argues the Oman-Iran corridor taking shape is an off-ramp Trump can take — but not the settlement he described. Baghaei's own...
The Treaty
Caleb Larson reports on an Iran war entering its sixth month: a Pentagon cost figure disputed as an undercount, Republicans tepid on more funding,...
Dollars and Sense
Stephen Silver reports that officials from Iran and Oman told the Associated Press they have finalized a draft deal on the Strait of Hormuz,...
Dollars and Sense
Jack Buckby reports that Iran publicly disputed Washington's account of the Hormuz talks hours after the US suggested a deal could be announced. Iranian...
Dollars and Sense
Brandon J. Weichert reports that ship-tracking firm Kpler counted only eight vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, against roughly a hundred and...
North Korea Talk
Jack Buckby reports that Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate told Reuters a North Korean missile unit has begun deploying to Russia's Voronezh region, potentially bringing...
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...
Ukraine War
Thanks to his imperial impulses and the regime’s incompetency, what was predicted to be a 3-day operation in Ukraine has become an enduring nightmare. ...
Ukraine War
The attempt on Donald Trump’s life is morally heinous and politically unacceptable, but it serves to remind Americans of the fragile nature of democracy...