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Dollars and Sense
Venezuela confirms the agreement covers seventeen fields over at least twenty-five years. The contracts are not public, analysts are questioning what control means, and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Shay Bottomley reports that U.S. forces struck IRGC missile launchers on Larak Island, the first military action against Iran since late July, examines the...
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Beyond his promises to build a border wall, President Donald Trump’s three campaigns may best be remembered for his repeated promises to prevent more...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Georgia Gilholy reports that sources close to Putin told The Economist he once said of ending the war, they will hang me, as elite...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Georgia Gilholy reports that as the shooting resumed at Larak, Washington escalated the money war: Bessent promising another bank sanction this week and warning...
Ukraine War
Shay Bottomley reports that Russia's jet-drone waves now come with a campaign against everyday life: nearly nine in ten food retailers' warehouses damaged, Moscow...
Ukraine War
Stephen Silver aggregates a turning week in the air war: Moscow announcing preparations for massive strikes on Ukraine's energy sector, nonstop jet-drone waves over...
Ukraine War
Ukraine isn’t prepared for what might be coming. Beyond its interceptor shortage, the country still hasn’t secured sufficient backup power for critical heating and...
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
The IRGC says a supertanker struck two sea mines and caught fire while crossing Hormuz without permission. CENTCOM's answer came in capitals: FALSE. With...
Dollars and Sense
Jack Buckby argues that Trump's twin economic campaigns, extreme tariffs on Canada and sweeping sanctions on Iran, face the same enemy in time, with...
Dollars and Sense
Jack Buckby reports that Gulf producers are moving crude past the Strait of Hormuz through an expensive emergency network of pipelines and shuttle tankers,...
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...
Dollars and Sense
One of the critical elements of modern warfare, reinforced by the war in Ukraine, is the importance of air superiority and the need to...
North Korea Talk
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. could intercept incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) using advanced and developing missile defense technologies. -Ground-based interceptors in Alaska...