Jack Buckby examines New York Times reporting on Ukraine's idled Western tanks, the crews retraining as drone operators, Russia's experimental tank shield and its...
Jack Buckby analyzes Washington's pivot from strikes to economic warfare against Iran, the new sanctions operation aimed at isolating Tehran, Beijing's blunt refusal to...
A former British diplomat points to the Blitz: bombing civilians has historically stiffened resistance rather than broken it. He also warns about the durability...
Unlike the shortage that ran from May to July, this one has reached the Moscow region. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan buy their processed fuel...
Jack Buckby examines the new shape of Russia's air campaign: jet-powered drones returning to Kyiv hours after dawn, four generations of Shahed derivatives in...
For now, the strategy seems simple: squeeze Iran economically until it is forced to compromise. The “economic D-Day” announcement, effectively placing sanctions on countries...
Georgia Gilholy reports on the reversal at the heart of Russia's fuel crisis: an energy superpower importing gasoline by sea, sending crude to Kazakhstan...
Reuben F. Johnson connects the threads of Ratcliffe's secret Moscow trip: Bloomberg's Kremlin sources describing a cornered Putin weighing nuclear options, Beijing's blunt ultimatum...
Stephen Silver looks ahead to the next presidential race: a stalemated Iran war neither party can ignore, the Obama precedent waiting for an antiwar...
Jack Buckby examines the mystery of three classified Putin decrees signed the week of the CIA director's Moscow visit: an imprisoned American, an infrastructure-seizure...
Diplomats in Middle Eastern embassies will be well prepared for another emergency evacuation, particularly having gone through the process less than six months ago.
Georgia Gilholy reports on Saudi Arabia's scramble to move its oil: crude rerouted through Egypt's Sumed pipeline, ship-to-ship sales to China outside Hormuz, tankers...
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...
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...
Joe Biden Is Making America Less Safe: Many political debates come down to one line. President Gerald Ford’s declaration that “There is no Soviet domination...
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...