The Treaty
Would Australia ever consider a purchase or even leasing older, U.S. navy nuclear-powered attack submarines? The idea seemed almost crazy nearly ten years ago...
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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...
Ukraine War
A Fox report details a 'dangerous new front': the executives and engineers behind drone technology are being hunted. A Russian FPV-drone boss was critically...
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia has long been known to give some support to Iran during this year’s war with the United States. But a new report states...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Storm Shadow missiles have crossed into Russia for years. What changed is confirmation that British-built drones are doing it too — cheaper weapons, produced...
Ukraine War
Jack Buckby reports on the second massive drone wave at Moscow in three days, per Mayor Sobyanin and ABC News, with flights restricted at...
Ukraine War
Steve Balestrieri reports on Belgium's shift: Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot says Brussels could support using most of Russia's frozen reserves for Ukraine if Europe...
Ukraine War
Jack Buckby reports on VEB.RF's dismissal of chief economist Andrei Klepach, which The Bell links to his warnings that Russia is losing the economic...
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...
The Treaty
The same day, a senior Iranian official told Reuters that Tehran is prepared to go fully offensive and take the war beyond Hormuz. Baghdad...
The Treaty
Some appear to have been made with AI, and a semi-governmental design house is producing many of them. Online, a British think tank tracked...
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,...
Dollars and Sense
Stephen Silver reports on the expired sixty-day memorandum window, Trump's no-talks declaration and open-and-operating claim against standstill traffic, ex-ambassador Marc Sievers on the Oman...
Dollars and Sense
A 2019 framework agreement expanded American military access to Omani facilities at Salalah and Duqm. Oman controls the southern side of the strait, which...
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...
North Korea Talk
Ukraine's defense intelligence says Russian missile factories exceeded July's production targets across the board, even as Moscow leans on ballistic missiles from Pyongyang and,...