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...
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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
Brandon J. Weichert reports on a new CSIS study finding that the United States has spent virtually all of its long-range precision missiles in...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Dr. Robert E. Kelly argues the Iran war has exposed the limits of America's exquisite-weapons model, with stockpile depletion now shaping Trump's escalation choices....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, air defenses managed to intercept around 320 Ukrainian attack drones across Russia.
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The choice to rely heavily on precision munitions is indicative of a military strategy that tries to avoid putting piloted aircraft potentially into harm’s...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
As recently as the NATO summit in Turkey in early July, Zelensky called for NATO to welcome Ukraine and asked the alliance to step...
Ukraine War
In what is becoming a common and everyday occurrence, late at night on 3 August and into the following morning, Ukraine’s military launched a...
Ukraine War
Russian emergency services said that 17 of the wounded civilians were hospitalized, and regional authorities announced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the explosion.
Ukraine War
Steve Balestrieri reports on Valery Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine's former top commander and now its ambassador to Britain, telling a meeting of ambassadors that his country...
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
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...
Dollars and Sense
Jack Buckby reports that Treasury Secretary Bessent told CNBC a Hormuz deal could come within a day, with Qatar confirming drafts are circulating. But...
Dollars and Sense
Isaac Seitz reports on a new study by an international coalition of marine scientists warning that the vessels idling outside the Strait of Hormuz...
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
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...
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...
The Treaty
Is war between Hezbollah and Israel next? Against the backdrop of the October 7th attacks by the Hamas terrorist organization, Israel became embroiled in...