Dollars and Sense
Before the bombs, officials were already warning that parts of Tehran — ten million people — might someday need evacuating. The reservoirs hit 12...
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Ukraine War
The verdict now comes from retired American generals and the former head of the DIA: Ukraine is "operationally winning." Russia's units can't communicate in...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Taking Kharg Island is the easy part — helicopters and Ospreys could do it. Holding it is the trap, one professor warns, and a...
Ukraine War
Russia still advances — at less than 8 percent of last year's pace, by ISW's count. Meanwhile every soldier it recruits is a worker...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Most people missed it: in 2025, Ukraine offered to give up its NATO dream — but only in exchange for binding security guarantees. The...
Dollars and Sense
The secret tanker operation is real — 200 ships, 100 million barrels, by the president's own count. Now do the division: about 3.3 million...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
America Missed It: China’s J-35 Is Headed to Every Carrier in China’s Fleet – Most analysts believed that China’s fifth-generation carrier-based warplane, the Shenyang...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The president confirmed it himself, on live TV: 22 ships ran Hormuz in the dark because Iran's radar is gone. The same day he...
The Treaty
Iran's state media kept score: thirty-eight times, a deal was declared imminent. But claim thirty-nine came with something the other thirty-eight didn't — a...