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The USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG-60), an Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate, was hit and sunk by anti-ship missiles during a training drill.

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Trump Just Said ‘We Have Other People That Will Do the Ground Campaign for Us’ — a Cryptic Tease as the Iran War Hits Its Limits

Even after destroying Iran's coastal batteries, ports, and most of its navy, Washington cannot make commercial ships risk Hormuz — while Tehran cannot push...

Jack BuckbyJuly 17, 2026

A B-52 Stratofortress lands at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida, April 15, 2021. The aircraft was featured at the Cocoa Beach Air Show April 17 - 18. The B-52 is is a long-range, heavy bomber capable of flying at up to 50,000 feet. (U.S. Space Force photo by Tech. Sgt. James Hodgman)

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Nobody Is Mining the Strait of Hormuz and Nobody Has Formally Closed It — Fear Alone Just Shut Down a Technically Open Waterway

Hormuz traffic has collapsed to its lowest level in weeks after the MOU with Iran fell apart — Kpler counted eight transits Thursday, Reuters...

Jack BuckbyJuly 17, 2026

Finnish artillery units fire Howitzers At Rovajärvi exercise area In northern Finland.

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The CIA Director Said It Out Loud: A Russian Recruit’s Life Expectancy on the Ukrainian Front Is Twenty to Thirty Minutes

CIA Director Ratcliffe says a Russian recruit's life expectancy at the front is now 20 to 30 minutes, crediting cheap AI-guided Ukrainian drones —...

Steve BalestrieriJuly 17, 2026

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Ukraine War

Putin Classified His Arms Giant’s Finances So No One Could See the Damage — Four Months Later, His Own CEO Admitted It Out Loud

Rostec's profits fell 42 percent to 76.4 billion rubles — the worst drop since its 2007 founding — even as revenue jumped 25 percent...

Reuben JohnsonJuly 17, 2026

Ukraine War

Putin Invaded Ukraine to Keep NATO Away — Instead He Drove Finland and Sweden Straight Into the Alliance

Reuben Johnson argues every rationale Putin gave for invading Ukraine has collapsed: the drive to block NATO instead pushed Finland and Sweden into the...

Reuben JohnsonJuly 15, 2026

President Donald J. Trump meets with guests, including Penske Corporation Chairman Roger Penske, in the Oval Office before participating in a Freedom 250 Grand Prix Showcase on West Executive Avenue at the White House, Monday, July 13, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

Dollars and Sense

Washington Assumes an Emptying Oil Reserve Will Force Restraint on Trump — It May Push Him Toward a Bigger War Instead

Dr. Andrew Latham argues the Strategic Petroleum Reserve — down 99 million barrels to a 1983 low, worth about sixteen days of prewar Hormuz...

Andrew LathamJuly 15, 2026

A Louisiana Air National Guard F-15C Eagle streaks above the Ohio River during the Thunder Over Louisville air show in Louisville, Ky., April 18, 2026. More than a dozen military aircraft performed during the show, including four Kentucky Air National Guard C-130J Super Hercules from the Louisville-based 123rd Airlift Wing and two UH-60 Black Hawks from the Kentucky Army National Guard’s Frankfort-based 63rd Theater Aviation Brigade. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Dale Greer)

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Airstrikes Kept Hitting Iran After the U.S. Announced It Was Done — and to This Day, Nobody Has Claimed Them

Iran fired on three commercial ships for using the Omani side of the Strait of Hormuz, setting the container ship GFS Galaxy ablaze with...

Steve BalestrieriJuly 13, 2026

Ukraine War

Zelensky Wants to Bomb Putin to the Negotiating Table. The Ceiling on That Strategy Isn’t in Moscow — It’s in the Baltic

Ukraine's deep-strike campaign is the most successful thing it has done all year, and Zelensky has been explicit that the point is coercion: make...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 12, 2026

Ukraine President Zelensky 2026 Creative Commons Photo

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

From Volunteers Modifying Hobby Drones to Reaching Siberia: How Ukraine Built the Weapon Now Bleeding Russia’s Oil Empire

Ukraine's drone sector has transformed from an ad hoc network of volunteers modifying commercial quadcopters into an industry of hundreds of companies building strike...

Caleb LarsonJuly 9, 2026

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Trump Just Said ‘We Have Other People That Will Do the Ground Campaign for Us’ — a Cryptic Tease as the Iran War Hits Its Limits

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Nobody Is Mining the Strait of Hormuz and Nobody Has Formally Closed It — Fear Alone Just Shut Down a Technically Open Waterway

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

The CIA Director Said It Out Loud: A Russian Recruit’s Life Expectancy on the Ukrainian Front Is Twenty to Thirty Minutes

Ukraine War

Putin Classified His Arms Giant’s Finances So No One Could See the Damage — Four Months Later, His Own CEO Admitted It Out Loud

Ukraine War

Putin Invaded Ukraine to Keep NATO Away — Instead He Drove Finland and Sweden Straight Into the Alliance

Dollars and Sense

Washington Assumes an Emptying Oil Reserve Will Force Restraint on Trump — It May Push Him Toward a Bigger War Instead

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Airstrikes Kept Hitting Iran After the U.S. Announced It Was Done — and to This Day, Nobody Has Claimed Them

Ukraine War

Zelensky Wants to Bomb Putin to the Negotiating Table. The Ceiling on That Strategy Isn’t in Moscow — It’s in the Baltic

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

From Volunteers Modifying Hobby Drones to Reaching Siberia: How Ukraine Built the Weapon Now Bleeding Russia’s Oil Empire

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