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A M109A7 Paladin, assigned to 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, Division Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division, fires a round during Operator New Equipment Training on Fort Hood, Texas, Aug. 25, 2025. The First Team is fielding new equipment, as part of the Transforming in Contact initiative, and conducting training to increase familiarization and precision with the new vehicles. (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. David Dumas)

Ukraine War

Kyiv Now Says Russia’s War Losses Are Approaching One and a Half Million — and Recruiting Can No Longer Keep Pace With the Toll

Ukraine's General Staff estimates Russian personnel losses at roughly 1.43 million since February 2022 — a figure CSIS's independent assessment broadly supports, with 400,000...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

Putin in 2020 Russian Government Photo Handout

Ukraine War

Russians Are Pulling Cash Out of Their Banks at the Fastest Pace Since the Pandemic — and Ukrainian Drones Are the Hidden Reason Why

Russia's stock of physical cash has jumped since January — the biggest rise outside the pandemic, per a BBC analysis — as mobile-internet shutdowns...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

Putin at Valdai Club in 2013. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Ukraine War

Ukraine Just Hit Three Russian Oil Depots and a Shadow-Fleet Ship in a Single Night — Moscow’s Whole Fuel Chain Is Now a Target

Ukraine's SBU says drones set fires at three oil depots in Russia's Stavropol region while a Mamai sea drone struck the Avero, the fourth...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

President Donald J. Trump participates in an interview with Trey Yingst, foreign correspondent for Fox New, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Joyce Boghosian)

The Treaty

Trump Is Now Fighting America’s Least Popular War Since Comparable Polling Began — and Voters Oppose It by a Full Thirty-Point Margin

A new Economist/YouGov poll finds that 57 percent of Americans believe the Iran war was the wrong decision, compared with 27 percent who support...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

Putin At a Conference Creative Commons Photo

Ukraine War

Russia Says It Downed Nearly Four Hundred Drones in a Single Night — a Smoke Plume Dozens of Miles Long Tells the Story It Left Out

Russia said it intercepted 379 Ukrainian drones overnight — yet smoke from a burning Wildberries complex near Moscow stretched for dozens of miles, and...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

Artillery Attack Pentagon Creative Commons Photo

Ukraine War

Russia Just Threw One of Its Largest Ballistic Barrages of the Entire War at Kyiv — and Ukraine’s Defenses Stopped Most of It

Russia fired 41 missiles and 125 drones at Ukraine overnight into July 19, concentrating one of its largest ballistic barrages on Kyiv; the Air...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

The Treaty

Ukraine Just Hit ‘Russia’s Amazon’ Twice in a Single Night — Striking the Giant Warehouses That Keep the Wartime Economy Moving

Ukrainian drones struck two Wildberries warehouses and an oil depot in the Moscow and Tambov regions overnight, with regional governors reporting seven workers killed...

Jack BuckbyJuly 18, 2026

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

America’s Iran Campaign Just Hit Seven Straight Nights of Strikes — and Now They’re Cutting Water and Power in the Extreme Heat

The US completed a seventh consecutive night of strikes on Iran early Saturday, expanding to bridges and rail around Bandar Abbas. Tehran says a...

Jack BuckbyJuly 18, 2026

(Dec. 01, 2020) - The guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) launches a Block V Tomahawk, the weapon’s newest variant, during a missile exercise. This event marked the first time a Block V Tomahawk missile was operationally tested, marking the Navy’s transition to a more advanced capability for the fleet. Block V includes an upgrade that will enhance navigation performance and provide robust and reliable communications. Chafee is currently assigned to Carrier Strike Group ONE and is homeported in Pearl Harbor. (U.S. Navy photo by Ens. Sean Ianno/Released)

The Treaty

The Iran War Just Entered a More Dangerous Phase — Six Straight Nights of US Strikes, and Retaliation Felt From Bahrain to Jordan

The Iran war has entered a more dangerous phase: six consecutive nights of US airstrikes on missile sites, coastal defenses, and energy infrastructure, answered...

Caleb LarsonJuly 18, 2026

National Security Journal

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Ukraine War

Kyiv Now Says Russia’s War Losses Are Approaching One and a Half Million — and Recruiting Can No Longer Keep Pace With the Toll

Ukraine War

Russians Are Pulling Cash Out of Their Banks at the Fastest Pace Since the Pandemic — and Ukrainian Drones Are the Hidden Reason Why

Ukraine War

Ukraine Just Hit Three Russian Oil Depots and a Shadow-Fleet Ship in a Single Night — Moscow’s Whole Fuel Chain Is Now a Target

The Treaty

Trump Is Now Fighting America’s Least Popular War Since Comparable Polling Began — and Voters Oppose It by a Full Thirty-Point Margin

Ukraine War

Russia Says It Downed Nearly Four Hundred Drones in a Single Night — a Smoke Plume Dozens of Miles Long Tells the Story It Left Out

Ukraine War

Russia Just Threw One of Its Largest Ballistic Barrages of the Entire War at Kyiv — and Ukraine’s Defenses Stopped Most of It

The Treaty

Ukraine Just Hit ‘Russia’s Amazon’ Twice in a Single Night — Striking the Giant Warehouses That Keep the Wartime Economy Moving

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

America’s Iran Campaign Just Hit Seven Straight Nights of Strikes — and Now They’re Cutting Water and Power in the Extreme Heat

The Treaty

The Iran War Just Entered a More Dangerous Phase — Six Straight Nights of US Strikes, and Retaliation Felt From Bahrain to Jordan

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