Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Ukraine's second strike on Moscow in three days may have knocked out a major refinery's entire output, Ukrainian analysts say. Two details stand out:...
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A new analysis argues the true beneficiaries of Trump's Iran war were America's great-power rivals. Russia reportedly fed Iran targeting data on U.S. bases...
Ukraine War
Ukraine failed to intercept any of the Russian ballistic missiles fired at Kyiv on July 6 because its stock of Patriot PAC-3 interceptors is...
Ukraine War
As leaders including President Trump gather in Ankara for the NATO summit, a new warning argues the event could be too tempting a target...
Ukraine War
Ukrainian drones attached and hit fighter hangars at two Crimean air bases — and Kyiv says the aircraft losses run into the hundreds of...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Finnish President Alexander Stubb declared Ukraine has already won the war — noting Russia has advanced just 60 kilometers in four years — while...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
With talks stalled and strikes resuming, this piece lays out Trump's narrowing options on Iran: continued diplomacy that has achieved nothing, a JSOC raid...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Trump declared the Iran ceasefire finished at the NATO summit, vowing more strikes "hard again tonight" and threatening to reimpose the oil blockade. Crude...
Ukraine War
In a rare admission, Vladimir Putin conceded Ukraine's strikes on Russia's energy sector are "creating problems" — while insisting the shortages are "not critical."...
Ukraine War
Former Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi — a likely presidential contender — argues the war has not swung Kyiv's way despite its drone successes. It...
Ukraine War
Starlink was long thought unjammable — until Russia deployed the Volna Kupol Garant, which blacks out the network across roughly eight square miles and...
The Treaty
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces struck nine Russian "shadow fleet" tankers in the Sea of Azov overnight — 19 in just 72 hours — as...
The Treaty
Hours after Iran struck three commercial tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command launched strikes on more than 80 Iranian targets, including...
The Treaty
After Iran's Revolutionary Guard struck three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, Trump declared the ceasefire dead — calling Iran's leaders "scum" — as...
Dollars and Sense
As Ukraine's strikes cripple its refineries, Russia has quietly relaxed fuel standards — allowing gasoline up to 15 times dirtier than the legal limit...
Dollars and Sense
Prediction markets have gutted the odds that Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to pre-war levels — from a June peak near 88 percent down...
Dollars and Sense
With its strike on the Omsk refinery in Siberia, Ukraine has now hit all 11 of Russia's largest oil refineries — a milestone reached...
North Korea Talk
North Korea stalled, negotiated, and built the bomb anyway — and its 2022 doctrine orders everything launched if its leaders are ever struck. Kim...
North Korea Talk
The recent North Korea–China summit highlights Beijing’s increasing concern over Moscow’s growing influence in Pyongyang. Since the Ukraine war began, Russia and North Korea...
North Korea Talk
Manila, Philippines – On the occasion of his visit to Pyongyang, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping has received one of the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Fighting in Lebanon nearly blew up the Iran deal in a single afternoon. An Israeli tank strike that killed four soldiers triggered retaliatory airstrikes...
Ukraine War
After Ukraine torched a Moscow refinery, Russia's Lavrov vowed "massive group strikes" — though Russia has bombed Ukrainian cities for years, while Ukraine has...