Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
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The Treaty
This morning, I went on my hometown radio station, 99.7 WPRO, in Providence, Rhode Island, to talk about the war in Iran and the...
The Treaty
Democrats want to impeach Donald Trump for starting a war without congressional authorization. The constitutional case is strong. But the proposed remedy misses the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Congress and the Pentagon are reviewing the Ford-class aircraft carrier program — including whether the CVN-80 and CVN-81 block buy...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Vladimir Putin and his senior military leadership did not believe they were starting a multi-year war in Ukraine when they attacked back in February,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia has lost more than 4,000 main battle tanks in Ukraine — including its entire T-80 fleet of roughly 1,200 vehicles — surpassing the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: An F-15C pilot from California’s 144th Fighter Wing lost his cockpit canopy in mid-flight last weekend after a Clovis Rodeo...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Four years into the war in Ukraine, the Russian economy has not yet collapsed. Rather, GDP numbers and wartime industrial output have often exceeded...
Ukraine War
We are so used to Vladimir Putin leading Russia that it rarely seems that there could be a different president someday. He has created...
Ukraine War
Ukraine launched attack drones and Western-supplied cruise missiles at targets within Russian-occupied Crimea earlier this week, striking several administrative buildings and related infrastructure. The...
Ukraine War
Ukraine’s Drone Force Hits Tuapse Again – Following another overnight Ukraine drone attack, a fire has broken out at the Russian Black Sea oil...
The Treaty
Summary and Key Points: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps struck a U.S. base in Kuwait on May 28, after American forces hit Iranian military infrastructure...
The Treaty
Could Vladimir Putin grow so frustrated with the war in Ukraine that he would somehow attack the Baltics? Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have high...
The Treaty
A little-known Cuban state-run organization is the main lifeline for the privileged elite of the Communist party and a circle of military officials around...
Dollars and Sense
America’s emergency oil stockpile is shrinking at one of the fastest rates ever recorded as the war with Iran continues to disrupt energy flows...
Dollars and Sense
Global oil markets are behaving as though the Strait of Hormuz crisis is not temporary, despite continued public optimism from the Trump administration about...
Dollars and Sense
The U.S. Navy plans to fire Castelion’s Blackbeard hypersonic missile from an F/A-18 Super Hornet by 2027. Built by former SpaceX engineers, Blackbeard is...
North Korea Talk
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on May 21 that Chinese President Xi Jinping may travel to Pyongyang as early as next week, according...
North Korea Talk
MANILA – Russia has paid North Korea up to $ 14.4 billion in military aid since 2023. The figure is roughly equivalent to North...
North Korea Talk
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s reliance on North Korea is one of the clearest side-stories of the Ukraine war—and it will matter as...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy is retiring every single Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser by 2029 — and with them, more than 1,200 missile launch cells the surface...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: An interview with Lionel “Stormy” Boudreaux — one of only 12 pilots who ever flew operational sorties in both the...