Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Desert Storm began with overwhelming coalition airpower—but not without loss. Guided by ground controllers, Iraqi pilot Zuhair Dawoud in...
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Ukraine War
Crimea is the territory Putin prized above every other conquest — and right now it's blacked out, rationing fuel, and under emergency rule his...
Ukraine War
Russia's air defenses are built to catch threats that come in fast and low. Ukraine's newest deep-strike weapon is neither — it falls silently...
Ukraine War
Ukraine struck nearly 900 kilometers into Russia overnight, hitting the plant that builds the launchers for the same Iskander missiles Russia fires at Ukrainian...
Ukraine War
Ukraine has promised Russia a punishing 40 days of strikes — and the deeper problem, this analysis argues, is that Putin has no good...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
For three years the West held back the long-range missiles that could reach deep inside Russia. So Ukraine built its own — and the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
After an Iranian drone hit a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. struck Iranian missile and drone storage sites and coastal...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
For the first time, all 22 generals who command America's Air National Guard fighter squadrons signed one letter to Congress, warning the U.S. Air...
Ukraine War
Russia answered Ukraine's deep strikes with a ballistic missile barrage on Kyiv overnight. But the moment that mattered came hours later, when Putin stood...
Ukraine War
The drone strikes reached Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Crimea — and they embarrassed Putin in front of his own elite. Now, according to reporting...
Ukraine War
Russia spent a decade insisting Crimea was untouchable. Then Zelensky approved a 40-day campaign to break the Kremlin's war economy from the inside —...
The Treaty
After a weekend of strikes across the Persian Gulf, the U.S. and Iran just agreed to stand down and meet in Doha on Tuesday....
The Treaty
Hours after U.S. aircraft struck Iranian missile sites and coastal radar over attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, Trump issued a warning Tehran can't...
The Treaty
Shipping is "literally caught in the crossfire," one analyst says, as the U.S. and Iran battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz. After...
Dollars and Sense
Iran fired on a cargo ship off Oman on Thursday — hours after warning vessels not to use a new UN-backed route through the...
Dollars and Sense
Most accounts credit U.S. firepower or Iranian resilience for ending the war. This analysis argues the real story was oil — and the outcome...
Dollars and Sense
Trump says there are "no tolls, no insurance costs, and no other charges" in the Strait of Hormuz — and threatens to end talks...
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
Key Points and Summary – RIMPAC 2024’s SINKEX of ex-USS Tarawa marked LRASM’s coming-of-age: a carrier-launched, stealth cruise missile autonomously found and struck a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – This essay profiles five battleship classes—Iowa, Yamato, South Dakota, King George V, and North Carolina—as strategic answers to the...