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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)

The Treaty

Iran ‘Activated’ Its Allies at the Second Chokepoint to Demonstrate What Tehran ‘Could Not Settle’ at Hormuz, an Analyst Writes

A rebel missile strike on a commercial vessel at Bab el-Mandeb killed crew members and rescuers Wednesday — a turn the AP says risks...

Stephen SilverAugust 12, 2026

The PAC-3 MSE is a highly sought-after air defense munition due to its advanced capabilities and versatility. As a next-generation interceptor, it offers improved range, speed, and maneuverability, making it an effective counter to a wide range of threats, including tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and aircraft. (Official U.S. Army photo)

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Something in the Nose of the Patriot Missile Is Holding Up Trump’s Promise to Ukraine — a Seeker So Prized Nobody Gets to Build It

Trump's Ankara promise to license PAC-3 production to Ukraine has stalled over the missile's Ka-band seeker — technology so sensitive it has never been...

Reuben JohnsonAugust 12, 2026

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, GUAM -- F-16 Fighting Falcons, F-18 Hornets and a B-2 Spirit, line the Andersen flight line during Exercise Valiant Shield, 22 June, 2006. Valiant Shield 2006, the U.S. Pacific Command exercise, which runs June 19 to 23, will be conducted in the vicinity of Guam. Valiant Shield focuses on integrated joint training and interoperability among U.S. military forces while responding to a range of mission scenarios. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Staff Sgt Bennie J. Davis III)

The Treaty

Donald Trump Just Got Handed Iran’s Bill for the War, and He Answered by Sending Tehran a Compensation Bill of His Own

Pakistan and Qatar say a US-Iran arrangement is taking shape, with Iran and Oman reportedly agreed on coordinates for a temporary Hormuz navigation system....

Jack BuckbyAugust 11, 2026

Iskander Missile Attack Creative Commons Image

Ukraine War

Putin Is Said to Have a ‘Pathological Fear’ of Drone Strikes — and Kyiv Just Burned the S-400 Guarding His Favorite Palace

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces say their drones destroyed the S-400 battery screening Putin's palace near Gelendzhik, leaving it 'ablaze and sputtering' for three hours....

Reuben JohnsonAugust 11, 2026

The Norwegian Army fires a National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) from the Andøya Space Range in Andøya, Norway against a simulated threat in support of exercise Formidable Shield 2023, May 10, 2023. Formidable Shield is a biennial integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) exercise involving a series of live-fire events against subsonic, supersonic, and ballistic targets, incorporating multiple Allied ships, aircraft, and ground forces working across battlespaces to deliver effects. (Courtesy photo by Royal Norwegian Navy)

Ukraine War

Something Is Slowing Ukraine’s Drone War on Crimea, and It Is Not Production: The Money Moves Slower Than the Plan

Kyiv's campaign to cut off Crimea is only phase one, the commander known as Magyar told the AP — and the constraint isn't drone...

Isaac SeitzAugust 11, 2026

Zelensky Speaking in UK Ukraine Government Photo

Ukraine War

Trump Told Zelensky He Did Not Have the Cards — Eighteen Months Later Ukraine’s Drones Are Reaching Into Siberia

Kyiv's answer arrived in smuggled drones and burning refineries. Weapons production expanded thirty-five-fold, long-range strikes tripled between January and July, and Moscow trimmed its...

Georgia GilholyAugust 11, 2026

Ukraine War

Vladimir Putin Just Got Handed a Map-Sized Problem: Every Refinery and Weapons Factory in Russia Sits Within Kyiv’s Reach

Jack Buckby reports Ukraine struck the Orsknefteorgsintez refinery in Orenburg, more than nine hundred miles from its border, as its drone force claimed forty-three...

Jack BuckbyAugust 11, 2026

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

America Doesn’t Have Enough of Its Biggest Bunker-Busters for Iran’s Missile Cities, and Even Enough Might Not Work, an Analyst Argues

Brandon J. Weichert argues the war's planners grotesquely underestimated Iran's underground missile cities — granite-buried complexes built after watching Saddam fall, where launchers, drones,...

Brandon WeichertAugust 11, 2026

Putin In a Meeting Creative Commons Photo

Ukraine War

Civilian Deaths Inside Russia Have More Than Doubled This Year — Monitors Now Call It the Highest Rate of the War

Both sides now hit what the other relies on. Ukraine burns the warehouses of Russia's biggest online retailer; Russia burns the warehouses of Ukraine's...

Stephen SilverAugust 11, 2026

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The Treaty

Iran ‘Activated’ Its Allies at the Second Chokepoint to Demonstrate What Tehran ‘Could Not Settle’ at Hormuz, an Analyst Writes

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Something in the Nose of the Patriot Missile Is Holding Up Trump’s Promise to Ukraine — a Seeker So Prized Nobody Gets to Build It

The Treaty

Donald Trump Just Got Handed Iran’s Bill for the War, and He Answered by Sending Tehran a Compensation Bill of His Own

Ukraine War

Putin Is Said to Have a ‘Pathological Fear’ of Drone Strikes — and Kyiv Just Burned the S-400 Guarding His Favorite Palace

Ukraine War

Something Is Slowing Ukraine’s Drone War on Crimea, and It Is Not Production: The Money Moves Slower Than the Plan

Ukraine War

Trump Told Zelensky He Did Not Have the Cards — Eighteen Months Later Ukraine’s Drones Are Reaching Into Siberia

Ukraine War

Vladimir Putin Just Got Handed a Map-Sized Problem: Every Refinery and Weapons Factory in Russia Sits Within Kyiv’s Reach

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

America Doesn’t Have Enough of Its Biggest Bunker-Busters for Iran’s Missile Cities, and Even Enough Might Not Work, an Analyst Argues

Ukraine War

Civilian Deaths Inside Russia Have More Than Doubled This Year — Monitors Now Call It the Highest Rate of the War

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