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
David Kirichenko reports from Kyiv on the winter ahead: interceptor stocks nearly gone, an American production license the manufacturers have not acted on, residents...
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...
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Two analysts reached opposite verdicts in the same newspaper: one calls the war a fiasco, the other says the Islamic Republic has never been...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Stephen D. Cook, a retired Special Forces lieutenant colonel who supports striking Iran, audits six months of war against the Powell Doctrine: no public...
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...
Ukraine War
Russia has adapted too. Its newest strike drones carry onboard AI for target recognition and autonomous terminal guidance, with mesh networking that lets nearby...
Ukraine War
Fast-track acquisition routes speed up the front end without waiving any of the underlying certifications. The proposed fix is not less rigor but faster...
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,...
The Treaty
Georgia Gilholy reports on a Ukrainian claim that Russia's leadership has ordered its generals to plan operations toward Kyiv and Chernihiv, set against a...
The Treaty
Shay Bottomley reports on a hardening stalemate: Trump saying Washington does not want to speak to Iran, a sanctions offensive announced but not yet...
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...
Dollars and Sense
‘Effectively Frozen’: Donald Trump’s War with Iran Could Soon Cripple What Is Left of His Presidency
Jack Buckby argues that Trump's failure to end the Iran war could cost Republicans the House and possibly the Senate in November, citing polls...
Dollars and Sense
Russia is not bankrupt in the sense that it cannot meet all its obligations. The Kremlin can still rely on traditional measures to boost...
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...
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....