Dollars and Sense The World Is Quietly Redrawing the Oil Map Around Iran — and Tehran’s Greatest Weapon May Soon Be Worthless The U.S. and its Gulf partners are racing to bypass the Strait of Hormuz — the UAE doubling its pipeline capacity, Saudi Arabia expanding... Steve Balestrieri1 hour ago
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More Canada Can Barely Keep One Submarine at Sea — So It Just Committed to Tripling the Fleet in Its Biggest Naval Overhaul in Decades Canada has selected Germany's ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems to build a new fleet of up to 12 submarines — a deal that could exceed $100... Isaac Seitz2 days ago
The Treaty ‘You Close It, and You Won’t Have a Country’: Trump’s Warning to Iran After It Shut the Strait Again Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed again — though CENTCOM says it's still open, and the ship counts are murky. Trump's response was... Steve BalestrieriJune 22, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More Sweden Spent Decades Building the JAS 39 Gripen Fighter for One Enemy: Russia. Ukraine May Now Get 150 of Them Sweden built the Gripen for one nightmare: fighting Russia while its own airbases burned. So the jet launches from highways, rearms in minutes, and... Brandon WeichertJune 11, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More Iran Can Count America’s Missiles Too — and It May Be Goading Washington Into Burning Through Them Forty-nine more Tomahawks just flew at Iran — from a stockpile that may hold only a thousand truly free for this fight once the... Brent M. EastwoodJune 11, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More Two Countries Are Battling to Build Canada’s Submarines. Almost No One Is Asking What the Subs Are For Twenty-five bidders are down to two, the decision lands within weeks, and the price approaches sixty billion dollars. Yet Canada's great submarine debate is... Andrew LathamJune 11, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More Canada Doesn’t Have To Choose: Buy All 88 F-35s And Add The JAS 39 Saab Gripen Fighters Mark Carney has been handed a genuinely hard problem, and folded inside it is an unusually clean solution, at least, that’s what I would... Harry J. KazianisJune 9, 2026
Ukraine War Putin’s Lost Cause in the Ukraine War Could Mean His End The current war in Ukraine has lasted longer than World War II did for Russia, but they have not yet achieved one of their... Steve BalestrieriJune 5, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More Canada Says It’s Reviewing Its F-35 Purchase to Cut Its Dependence on America — but It Just Quietly Paid for 14 More of the Jets Canada and the F-35 Problem: Canada finds itself in quite a quandary. The country lies geographically above the United States, but in no way... Brandon WeichertJune 1, 2026