Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More The Real Houthi and Hormuz Problem: The U.S. Navy Can’t Win a War Over Fear Three tankers loaded with Saudi crude for Asia reversed course in the Red Sea on Tuesday and headed for Suez instead. Nobody fired at... Andrew LathamJuly 22, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More Israeli Intelligence Says Iran Has Moved Thousands of Centrifuges Into a Mountain Buried Four Hundred Fifty Feet Deep Trump said the United States will soon strike Pickaxe Mountain, a fortified nuclear complex beside Natanz whose halls are believed to sit as deep... Jack BuckbyJuly 22, 2026
Dollars and Sense Iran Just Declared Hormuz “Belongs to Us” — and That Anyone Who Fails to Understand Will “End Up at the Bottom” Oil has climbed sharply since hostilities resumed on July 7, and the water tells the story better than the price does. CENTCOM insists Hormuz... Steve BalestrieriJuly 22, 2026
The Treaty The Solution Is in the Hands of Mr. Trump, a Karachi Fruit Exporter Says — With His Mangos Stuck at the Iranian Border Pakistan shares a long border with Iran and once traded briskly across it. Since the war began that border has opened and closed repeatedly,... Isaac SeitzJuly 22, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More The Regime Decentralized to Survive — and Now Iran No Longer Speaks With One Voice or Answers to a Single Commander More than ten days into the renewed fighting, Iran faces three strategic paths over the Strait of Hormuz, according to a BBC assessment: settle... Brandon WeichertJuly 22, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More Saudi Arabia Built a Whole Pipeline to Escape Hormuz — and Now Needs the One Strait the Houthis Are Threatening to Close The Houthis are threatening to blockade the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the Red Sea passage Saudi Arabia leaned on after building a pipeline to bypass... Brent M. EastwoodJuly 22, 2026
The Treaty The Houthis Have Not Fired a Single Shot at Red Sea Shipping — and Saudi Tankers Are Already Reversing Course Away From It The Iran-backed Houthis have not sealed the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, but the threat alone has been enough: three Saudi tankers bound for China and... Brandon WeichertJuly 22, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More Saudi Arabia Quietly Moved Its Oil Exports to the Red Sea to Get Around Hormuz — and the Houthis Can Choke That Route Too Saudi Arabia quietly rerouted much of its crude to Red Sea ports to bypass Hormuz, and now moves more than three million barrels a... Brandon WeichertJuly 22, 2026
Dollars and Sense The World’s Richest Oil States Cannot Buy Fresh Water — They Burn Energy to Make It, and Iran Is Hitting Those Plants Tens of millions in the Gulf drink water that comes out of a machine. Those machines are being hit, and they are slow and... Stephen SilverJuly 22, 2026