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Trump Just Got Handed the Satellite Evidence: Construction at Pickaxe Mountain Surged This Year, Two Kilometers from Natanz

A new CSIS satellite analysis finds construction at Iran's Pickaxe Mountain surged this year — the busiest activity in the site's history, two kilometers...

Stephen Silver1 day ago

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), while participating in Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024, fires the first naval strike missile from a U.S. destroyer July 18. Twenty-nine nations, 40 surface ships, three submarines, 14 national land forces, more than 150 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC in and around the Hawaiian Islands, June 27 to Aug. 1. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2024 is the 29th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jordan Jennings)

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Donald Trump Just Ordered US Military Forces to Sink Iran’s Tanker Fleet and Tehran Is Already Firing Back

CENTCOM says it destroyed five Iranian crude tankers, naming the ships, after the IRGC fired ballistic missiles at a US warship two days running....

Stephen Silver1 day ago

Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) transits the South China Sea, June 8, 2026. Boxer, flagship of the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, is underway with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. U.S. 7th Fleet, the Navy’s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners to preserve a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Eliora Sims)

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The Gulf No Longer Sees the Iran War as a Crisis with an End Date, Qatar’s Spokesman Says — It Is Becoming the New Normal

Gulf states are adapting to a war they no longer see as temporary, Qatar's spokesman says — a new normal. A UAE port outside...

Isaac Seitz2 days ago

President Donald Trump walks to the Oval Office after attending a Back to School and Education Freedom event, Monday, August 24, 2026, in the White House Rose Garden. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

Dollars and Sense

The Problem That Could Cost Donald Trump the Midterms: High Gas Prices That Just Refuse to Go Down Thanks to the Iran War

Oil touched its highest since July after the Houthi attack on Saudi oil, and the pain is landing at American pumps: records on Labor...

Stephen Silver2 days ago

Capt. Andrew “Dojo” Olson, F-35 Heritage Flight Team pilot and commander performs a vertical climb in an F-35A Lightning II during the Bell Fort Worth Alliance Air Show Oct. 14, 2018, in Fort Worth, Texas. The F-35A Lightning II’s F-135 single-engine contains 43,000 pounds of thrust. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Alexander Cook)

The Treaty

The Middle East Has a New Problem: The Houthis Declared a Blockade of Saudi Shipping in the Red Sea — and Vow ‘Siege-for-Siege’

The Houthis declared a blockade of Saudi shipping in the Red Sea and vowed a siege-for-siege policy, just as Riyadh reportedly reroutes most of...

Georgia Gilholy2 days ago

The Army test fires a Patriot missile in a recent test. The Patriot missile system is a ground-based, mobile missile defense interceptor deployed by the United States to detect, track and engage unmanned aerial vehicles, cruise missiles, and short-range and tactical ballistic missiles. Patriot, along with other missile defense systems, are included in the Army Air and Missile Defense 2028, which provides the Army’s overarching vision for the AMD force, describes how the AMD force is postured to support the Army and joint forces, and articulates what must be accomplished to achieve the 2028 desired end state of preventing and defeating adversary air and missile attacks through a combination of deterrence, active and passive defense, and support to attack operations. (U.S. Army photo)

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‘I Think Today’s Development Speeds up the Saudi Engagement in This War’: Houthis Just Launched an Attack on Saudi Oil

Saudi Arabia plans to retaliate against the Houthis and has informed its allies, CNN reports, after the biggest strike on the kingdom yet pushed...

Stephen Silver2 days ago

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Iran’s Uranium — Enriched to a Short Step from Weapons Grade — Has Gone Unverified for the Better Part of a Year, per the IAEA

Seven months after the February strikes, critics charge that Washington's fight to keep Hormuz open has crowded out the war's nuclear goal. Iran's near-weapons-grade...

Steve Balestrieri2 days ago

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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The US Military Just Threatened to ‘Destroy Iran’s Limited and Exposed Oil Fleet’ if Tehran Keeps Trying to Attack the US Navy

Iran-backed Houthis launched their biggest attack on Saudi Arabia of the war, striking an airbase and Aramco sites as oil prices surged. Tehran is...

Georgia Gilholy2 days ago

A U.S. Air National Guard F-15 Eagle from the 159th Fighter Wing, Louisiana Air National Guard, takes off during exercise Sentry Aloha 26-1 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Jan. 27, 2026. The training demonstrates the 154th Wing’s capability to lead large-force employment exercises, reinforcing the Guard's position as a vital component of the nation's operational force. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Mysti Bicoy)

Dollars and Sense

Trump’s Blockade Is More Likely to Push Iran Toward Military Escalation Than to Break It, a New Analysis Warns

President Trump has touted the Hormuz blockade as a success, but a new CNN analysis argues the pressure is pushing Iran toward military escalation...

Stephen Silver2 days ago

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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Trump Just Got Handed the Satellite Evidence: Construction at Pickaxe Mountain Surged This Year, Two Kilometers from Natanz

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Donald Trump Just Ordered US Military Forces to Sink Iran’s Tanker Fleet and Tehran Is Already Firing Back

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

The Gulf No Longer Sees the Iran War as a Crisis with an End Date, Qatar’s Spokesman Says — It Is Becoming the New Normal

Dollars and Sense

The Problem That Could Cost Donald Trump the Midterms: High Gas Prices That Just Refuse to Go Down Thanks to the Iran War

The Treaty

The Middle East Has a New Problem: The Houthis Declared a Blockade of Saudi Shipping in the Red Sea — and Vow ‘Siege-for-Siege’

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

‘I Think Today’s Development Speeds up the Saudi Engagement in This War’: Houthis Just Launched an Attack on Saudi Oil

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Iran’s Uranium — Enriched to a Short Step from Weapons Grade — Has Gone Unverified for the Better Part of a Year, per the IAEA

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

The US Military Just Threatened to ‘Destroy Iran’s Limited and Exposed Oil Fleet’ if Tehran Keeps Trying to Attack the US Navy

Dollars and Sense

Trump’s Blockade Is More Likely to Push Iran Toward Military Escalation Than to Break It, a New Analysis Warns

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