Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Leopard 2 vs. Drone: How Ukraine is Adapting Germany’s Best Tank The Leopard 2 is widely considered one of the world’s best, most reliable,...
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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
The West went into this crisis with less refining capacity than it once had and is scheduled to lose more. Global processing has fallen...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China takes the great majority of Iran's shipped oil, much of it through non-state refiners. Turkey buys a significant share of its natural gas...
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...
Ukraine War
Russia has unbanned low-grade petrol it had previously outlawed, brought in fuel by rail from Kazakhstan, Belarus and Morocco, and taken a shipment from...
Ukraine War
Refineries are diverting aromatic hydrocarbons into lower-octane gasoline, which is now producing shortages of motor oil and squeezing the same feedstocks used for synthetic...
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...
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: The U.S. Navy’s undersea dominance is threatened by a shrinking force structure and an overstretched industrial base. While the Virginia-class...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Despite initial reports of high attrition and crew complaints, the deployment of 31 U.S. and 80 Australian M1A1 Abrams tanks...