Dollars and Sense
The U.S. Air Force just made a stunning reversal on the A-10 Warthog—the legendary close-air-support aircraft that was supposed to be retired by 2028...
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Dollars and Sense
Brent settled at $88.52 on Friday after a week of tanker attacks and no diplomatic movement. Washington's plan is to wait Tehran out —...
Ukraine War
DeepState counted 19 settlements regained and Russians pushed back in six more areas. The Institute for the Study of War documented significant advances. A...
Ukraine War
A Fox report details a 'dangerous new front': the executives and engineers behind drone technology are being hunted. A Russian FPV-drone boss was critically...
Dollars and Sense
The EIA raised its oil forecast as the Hormuz disruption drains global inventories, with July's shut-in topping one in every twenty barrels the world...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Sea drones once forced Russia to move its Black Sea Fleet from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk. This week Ukraine reached Novorossiysk too, and the argument...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Feodosia oil terminal is out of action, the Chonhar bridge has been damaged, and fuel trucks have been hit near Armiansk. Almost everything...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Iraqi crude now crosses Syria by truck to the Mediterranean. Abu Dhabi is doubling its capacity outside the strait. None of it replaces Hormuz...
Ukraine War
The same night brought strikes on an air base housing the jets that carry Kinzhal missiles and on Russia's second-largest Baltic oil export port....
Ukraine War
Ukraine went into the war with a few dozen serviceable fighters against hundreds. Moscow's opening campaign failed to destroy them on the ground because...
Ukraine War
Storage is filling ahead of September's corn harvest, domestic prices have dropped below the cost of production, and farmers need export revenue now to...
The Treaty
US President Donald J. Trump has said the Strait of Hormuz will be made a U.S. territory. Speaking at a Long Island police training...
The Treaty
Pakistan again says a US-Iran arrangement is taking shape — but the author notes Islamabad was optimistic before the last deal, which collapsed days...
The Treaty
A rebel missile strike on a commercial vessel at Bab el-Mandeb killed crew members and rescuers Wednesday — a turn the AP says risks...
Dollars and Sense
“I know that oil is down today and it’s way down from the highs in the early days of the conflict,” Vance said. “That’s...
Dollars and Sense
Households in Iran are cutting back on food, medicine and utilities. One trade official says shifting a single ship's cargo overland would take about...
Dollars and Sense
Wright puts the outflow at 14 to 15 million barrels a day against 20 million before the war, with 8 to 9 million crossing...
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...
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Army and Philippine forces carried out a live-fire Tomahawk cruise missile strike from a ground-based Typhon launcher in the Philippines early on...
The Treaty
China is now building something far more dangerous than a stealth fighter—a complete network-centric air combat ecosystem designed specifically to dominate the First Island...