Ukraine War
Five confirmed losses. Roughly 38 flyable jets. A missile shortage that keeps getting worse. The pilot survived this crash — but Ukraine's air shield...
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Ukraine War
Unlike the shortage that ran from May to July, this one has reached the Moscow region. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan buy their processed fuel...
Ukraine War
Reuben F. Johnson argues Putin's remaining strategy is to out-suffer Ukraine: the economist fired for saying Russia is falling behind, ISW data showing stalled...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Jack Buckby breaks down the weekend's deep strikes: FP-1 drones hit a Rosneft refinery and reach Ozon, seven of Wildberries' ten biggest hubs sit...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The report said the 5,000 people on the aircraft carrier “went without basic supplies,” including toothpaste, deodorant, and soap, for long stretches of its...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
He argued Washington turned to economic pressure out of disappointment with the war, and that the aim is to break popular unity and put...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Trade talks have collapsed, with new tariffs threatened on Canadian auto exports from the new year. Ottawa's review of its fighter purchase was meant...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The administration has favored economic pressure since April, and the Treasury Secretary unveils the next package this week. Pence argues that route has run...
Ukraine War
Ozon has had at least six logistics sites hit since Saturday, with employees evacuated across southern Russia. Its shares dropped so sharply that the...
Ukraine War
The drones navigate by comparing the ground below against a stored map, which makes them immune to jamming and removes the need for an...
Ukraine War
More than a dozen Ukrainian strike drones have crossed into Baltic and Finnish airspace since March. Governments are also hardening dams, power stations and...
The Treaty
Pyongyang's earlier deployments went into the fighting and took heavy losses. This one is meant to free Russian troops for offensive operations, and to...
The Treaty
With Trump term-limited, the vice president is the likeliest nominee — and the war is the thing he can neither run toward nor away...
The Treaty
Going dark hides tankers from Iranian targeting and from the commercial trackers at the same time, which is why public counts show a trickle...
Dollars and Sense
The mechanism is access to the dollar: foreign banks, shippers and traders must choose between Iranian business and the far larger American system. Enforcement...
Dollars and Sense
Tehran insists every shipowner needs its approval to enter the strait. It has not moved against any vessel on the list. Meanwhile the Houthis...
Dollars and Sense
That discount is the reason ships keep sailing. Chinese state carriers have stayed out since late July and take their cargoes by ship-to-ship transfer...
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...
Ukraine War
Instead of overpowering Russian radar, Stone Cloak lies to it — spawning clusters of ghost targets no operator can sort from the real thing....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Wall Street Journal reports that CENTCOM's commander has prepared a punishing air campaign against Iran that could run two weeks, on the theory...