Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Russia’s lone aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, has been undergoing extensive maintenance and repairs for years, casting doubt on its return...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The change was framed partly as a cost saving. Early Navy figures cited by analysts point the other way: steam-equipped carriers may run about...
Ukraine War
On the night of 14 August, Ukrainian forces hit the Ust-Luga port in Russia’s Leningrad Oblast, the region that encompasses Russia’s second city, St. Petersburg. The...
Dollars and Sense
Brent settled at $88.52 on Friday after a week of tanker attacks and no diplomatic movement. Washington's plan is to wait Tehran out —...
Ukraine War
DeepState counted 19 settlements regained and Russians pushed back in six more areas. The Institute for the Study of War documented significant advances. A...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The big question now is how the United States intends to ensure traffic continues to flow through the Strait of Hormuz as Iran’s newly...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Financial Times reported in May that he was spending more time underground, micromanaging the war and detached from ordinary governance, with fears of...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Stephen Silver reports on the defensive-missile shortage: CSIS finds stocks down nearly two-thirds since February, author Mark Cancian warns China can derive the same...
Ukraine War
A crowdsourced tracker found fuel at fewer than three in ten Russian stations on August 16, down from about four in ten a week...
Ukraine War
Jack Buckby reports from a turbulent day in Kyiv: Zelensky fired deputy office chief Iryna Mudra hours after anti-corruption raids, investigators unveiled 'Operation Forrest...
Ukraine War
Georgia Gilholy tracks the squeeze on Russia's oil machine: no crude loaded at Novorossiysk for a week, shipments down five weeks running, production at...
The Treaty
Trump told a rally he would never apologize for high gas prices. His own Speaker concedes the war drove them up. A Republican strategist...
The Treaty
Donald Trump was elected in 2024 by a unique coalition of groups that seemed unlikely to stay together long-term. Trump earned the support of...
The Treaty
Nobody is extending it. An Iranian source told Reuters there is nothing to extend, because the agreement stopped existing weeks ago — after the...
Dollars and Sense
Even more worrying for Trump, with the status of the Strait of Hormuz still uncertain, he doesn’t have any easy way out of the...
Dollars and Sense
Stephen Silver reports on the diesel squeeze: prices near an all-time high, a refining margin that has never been steeper, refineries running flat out...
Dollars and Sense
Jack Buckby examines the tanker data behind Trump's open-and-operating claim: Kpler counted six crossings Monday against more than a hundred and thirty daily pre-war,...
North Korea Talk
Georgia Gilholy reports on Lavrov's world-order message to Pyongyang, Zelensky's claim that up to fifty thousand more troops could follow the Kursk deployment, Reuters-reported...
North Korea Talk
Trump ordered joint exercises with South Korea scaled back and praised Kim Jong-Un, drawing sharp criticism as Seoul stays muted.
North Korea Talk
Roughly 9,500 are already there. Reuters reports North Korean supplies have at times covered around half of Russia's frontline munitions, and the next contingent...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Russia’s only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, remains plagued by challenges despite promises of a return. -After years of repairs marked...
North Korea Talk
On June 26, 2024, the North Koreans conducted a test of what they called MIRV technology. Pyongyang claimed the test “aimed at securing the...