Ukraine War
For three years, anyone who said Ukraine could win was waved off as naive — the numbers were against them, the bean counters insisted,...
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Dollars and Sense
Most commentary on Russia’s frozen reserves treats the story as one of irony. Vladimir Putin accumulated nearly $300 billion to protect Russia from Western...
Ukraine War
Ukraine Has Declared Total War on Russia’s Oil and Gas Industries and Putin Can’t Make the Pain Stop
Reaching an area 800 miles from the border with Russia, on Sunday, 31 May, Ukrainian drones struck a Russian fuel depot, oil pumping station,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The Soviet MiG-23 Flogger was Moscow’s first swing-wing fighter, built in the late 1960s to rival the American F-4 Phantom....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: In the 1970s, under CNO Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, the Navy studied the CVV — a smaller, conventionally powered carrier meant...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The Northrop P-61 Black Widow was the first U.S. aircraft designed around radar — a night fighter that could find...
Ukraine War
Summary and Key Points: The invasion of Ukraine is uniquely Putin’s project — conceived, ordered, and justified by one man — raising a serious...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: On May 29, 2026, a Russian drone struck an apartment building in Galați, Romania, wounding two — the first time...
Ukraine War
Summary and Key Points: Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine was centered on armored columns racing toward Kyiv. Instead, Russian tanks became the war’s most...