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...
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Ukraine War
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...
Dollars and Sense
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...
Ukraine War
A former British diplomat points to the Blitz: bombing civilians has historically stiffened resistance rather than broken it. He also warns about the durability...
Ukraine War
Unlike the shortage that ran from May to July, this one has reached the Moscow region. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan buy their processed fuel...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Jack Buckby examines why Moscow may see an opening: intelligence assessments that Washington looks weakened by the Iran war, a Pentagon interceptor shortage described...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Axios reports, citing Israeli officials, that the IRGC Navy commander began closing the strait within hours of the war starting and laid mines in...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The industry has built a relay. Ships whose owners accept the risk collect crude inside the Gulf, run the strait, and transfer the cargo...
Ukraine War
Jack Buckby reports on Ukraine's overnight double strike: a Tu-95 bomber hit at Engels, a Yaroslavl refinery burning six hundred miles from the front,...
Ukraine War
Jack Buckby reports on a two-day Russian barrage and the tactic behind it: repeated strikes timed to catch firefighters at the scene, courier depots...
Ukraine War
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...
The Treaty
Stephen Silver looks ahead to the next presidential race: a stalemated Iran war neither party can ignore, the Obama precedent waiting for an antiwar...
The Treaty
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...
The Treaty
Diplomats in Middle Eastern embassies will be well prepared for another emergency evacuation, particularly having gone through the process less than six months ago.
Dollars and Sense
Stephen Silver reports on the money problems piling up in Moscow: a finance minister warning of missed payments, deep cuts everywhere except the war...
Dollars and Sense
Reuben F. Johnson reports on a day of near-continuous alerts in Kyiv: an air-raid app voiced by Mark Hamill that would not stop sounding,...
Dollars and Sense
Jack Buckby examines the test that will decide Operation Economic Outcast: whether Washington is willing to sanction major Chinese banks, why Beijing holds the...
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...
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...
Dollars and Sense
When I joined the U.S. Navy in 1995, warfare was dominated by physical battlegrounds and traditional combat tactics. Today, that landscape has shifted dramatically....