Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Trump calls it the largest covert maritime operation in history. One analyst says it was a marginal workaround that exposed a defeat: to beat...
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Ukraine War
Hours after a Ukrainian drone set a major Moscow refinery ablaze, a top Russian oil producer capped gasoline purchases at 20 liters a car...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Kyiv is called the City of Golden Domes. Monday night, those domes reflected flames after a Russian strike hit the 1,000-year-old Pechersk Lavra monastery,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Iran is the only country on Earth still flying the F-14 Tomcat — the Top Gun jet the U.S. retired in 2006. On June...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Iran didn't beat the United States symmetrically — it closed the Strait of Hormuz with minimal force and kept the U.S. fleet at a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Trump says the Iran deal is done — and this time Iranian and Pakistani officials agree. But its biggest threat isn't Iran. Israel says...
Dollars and Sense
"Victory on paper, defeat in practice," one analyst warns: the Iran war may be ending, but the economic bill is just arriving. By his...
Ukraine War
Russia's military recruitment fell 20 percent in the first quarter of 2026 against a year earlier — and the incentives meant to reverse it...
The Treaty
"The object in war is to obtain a better peace," one scholar writes — "and a better peace has not been obtained." By his...