The Treaty
The debate over the constitutionality of Operation Epic Fury has rapidly transformed from a strategic critique into a procedural battle in Washington. Following the...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The change was framed partly as a cost saving. Early Navy figures cited by analysts point the other way: steam-equipped carriers may run about...
Ukraine War
On the night of 14 August, Ukrainian forces hit the Ust-Luga port in Russia’s Leningrad Oblast, the region that encompasses Russia’s second city, St. Petersburg. The...
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Damascus says the work at the base was civil war repair and that Turkish personnel were there for training. Netanyahu's office says Syria was...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Energy Information Administration counted well over twenty million barrels a day through the strait in early 2025. By the second quarter of this...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Bahrain holds the Fifth Fleet headquarters, Qatar and Kuwait the major air and ground facilities. Hundreds of American structures have been damaged since February....
Ukraine War
Zelensky says Ukraine has far fewer interceptors than it did last year while Russia fires roughly twice as many ballistic missiles a month, and...
Ukraine War
Moscow has already been forced to acknowledge “certain problems” caused by Ukrainian strikes, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin, and a series of...
Ukraine War
A crowdsourced tracker found fuel at fewer than three in ten Russian stations on August 16, down from about four in ten a week...
The Treaty
Trump told a rally he would never apologize for high gas prices. His own Speaker concedes the war drove them up. A Republican strategist...
The Treaty
Donald Trump was elected in 2024 by a unique coalition of groups that seemed unlikely to stay together long-term. Trump earned the support of...
The Treaty
Nobody is extending it. An Iranian source told Reuters there is nothing to extend, because the agreement stopped existing weeks ago — after the...
Dollars and Sense
Tankers are grouped and moved through the Omani channel in designated night windows, loaded ships outbound followed by empty ships inbound, under Air Force...
Dollars and Sense
Tankers move at night through the Omani side rather than the Iranian one. A shipping analyst calls the southern corridor one of the war's...
Dollars and Sense
Abu Dhabi spent years shielding its commercial relationship with Tehran while keeping a close security partnership with Washington. Dubai's re-export and finance trade was...
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Jack Buckby, a defense and national security analyst, evaluates the strategic deployment of the B-1B Lancer during Operation Epic Fury....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
As Operation Epic Fury enters its critical phase as the U.S. Navy faces a high-stakes "Kinetic Missile Fight" where the primary constraint isn't just...