Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – China’s state media revealed Shenyang’s J-35A/B final-assembly hangars, showing unpainted airframes and highlighting recent J-35B catapult launches and arrested...
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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 is one of the planet's biggest oil producers. So why are drivers in Siberia and on the Pacific coast — thousands of miles...
Ukraine War
For nearly four years Putin insisted the drone strikes changed nothing. On Sunday he conceded the opposite: gas-station lines, a fuel deficit, a "difficult...
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...
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
Tankers are moving through Hormuz again, crude has fallen below its prewar price, and the worst of the oil shock looks like it's passing....
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...
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 – This piece argues that five U.S. Navy aircraft carrier classes are one evolving idea. -Essex delivered mass, repairability, and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS Enterprise (CVN-80), the third Gerald R. Ford-class carrier, has slipped to a 2030 delivery after successive delays. -Causes...