Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
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The Treaty
Trump declared the "Immediate, Complete, and Total" opening of the strait on August 1. Days later Iran's foreign ministry is still describing a reopening...
The Treaty
Trump calls it a chess game and says he's only semi-negotiating. Meanwhile the demands Iran once reserved for nuclear talks are attached to the...
Ukraine War
The alliance's mutual-defense clause has been triggered once in seventy-six years, after 9/11. It was written before cyberwarfare existed, and that ambiguity is exactly...
Ukraine War
The likeliest place is a narrow corridor between Kaliningrad and Belarus — NATO's only land route to the Baltics. The goal wouldn't be territory....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Brandon J. Weichert argues the war's planners grotesquely underestimated Iran's underground missile cities — granite-buried complexes built after watching Saddam fall, where launchers, drones,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Germany is weighing Kyiv's needs against the minimum it must hold to defend itself and meet NATO commitments. Poland, Spain and Greece have stocks....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Every rocket Pyongyang fires into Ukraine is a test it could not run at home. Analysts now describe a China-Russia-North Korea alignment whose lessons...
Ukraine War
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces say their drones destroyed the S-400 battery screening Putin's palace near Gelendzhik, leaving it 'ablaze and sputtering' for three hours....
Ukraine War
Kyiv's campaign to cut off Crimea is only phase one, the commander known as Magyar told the AP — and the constraint isn't drone...
Ukraine War
Kyiv's answer arrived in smuggled drones and burning refineries. Weapons production expanded thirty-five-fold, long-range strikes tripled between January and July, and Moscow trimmed its...
The Treaty
Pakistan and Qatar say a US-Iran arrangement is taking shape, with Iran and Oman reportedly agreed on coordinates for a temporary Hormuz navigation system....
The Treaty
Nobody can say what has actually been agreed. Some reports have Iran collecting tolls under the framework; others call that a non-starter. Meanwhile Tehran's...
The Treaty
Neither side can force the other to fold, and neither is talking directly anymore. Iran has survived two rounds of maximum pressure already. Meanwhile...
Dollars and Sense
President Trump told Axios the United States is 'only semi-negotiating' with Iran, shifting to a strategy of waiting Tehran out while the blockade takes...
Dollars and Sense
Both sides now want to be paid. Tehran demands reparations for war damage; Trump says Iran should compensate the families of protesters it killed...
Dollars and Sense
Eight million barrels a night sounds enormous until you set it beside the 21 million a day that crossed Hormuz before the war. Tehran...
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,...
North Korea Talk
More than 120 Shahed-style drones flew as well, and Kyiv says they were upgraded jet-powered versions of the Iranian design. Russia has now taken...
North Korea Talk
Through its long war against Ukraine, Russia has received reinforcements from North Korea. Now, more of that is on the way. According to The...
Ukraine War
Manila, Philippines – On 17 June, the leaders of the G7 nations (France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada, and...
Ukraine War
Manila, Philippines – On 5 June, Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (Сили безпілотних систем or SBS) reported that it had struck five vessels within the temporarily-occupied...