Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More Iran Barely Blockaded the Strait of Hormuz. It Mostly Just Threatened To — and That Was Enough to Win Trump calls it the largest covert maritime operation in history. One analyst says it was a marginal workaround that exposed a defeat: to beat... Brandon Weichert5 days ago
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More Iran Just Showed China How to Push the U.S. Navy Out of a Fight — With Cheap Drones and Missiles Iran didn't beat the United States symmetrically — it closed the Strait of Hormuz with minimal force and kept the U.S. fleet at a... Robert Kelly5 days ago
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More The Iran Deal’s Biggest Roadblock Isn’t Iran. It’s the Fighting in Lebanon That Won’t Stop Trump says the Iran deal is done — and this time Iranian and Pakistani officials agree. But its biggest threat isn't Iran. Israel says... Isaac Seitz5 days ago
Dollars and Sense Donald Trump Has a Problem: The Iran War May Cost the Global Economy $2.2 Trillion — and Stagflation Is Coming "Victory on paper, defeat in practice," one analyst warns: the Iran war may be ending, but the economic bill is just arriving. By his... Brandon Weichert5 days ago
The Treaty The Iran Deal May Be Harder to Defend Than the Obama Agreement Trump Tore Up "The object in war is to obtain a better peace," one scholar writes — "and a better peace has not been obtained." By his... Robert Farley5 days ago
The Treaty Trump’s Iran Deal Has a Fatal Flaw: Israel or Hezbollah Could Restart the War at Any Second The US-Iran memorandum signed Monday isn't peace — it's a 60-day framework. And the biggest threat to it isn't at the table: Israel says... Jack Buckby5 days ago
Dollars and Sense The Iran War Followed Americans Home — and It May Force the Fed’s Hand Right Before the Midterms The Iran war's most lasting hit to Trump may be in American living rooms, not the Gulf. His own Fed pick signaled rate cuts... Jack Buckby5 days ago
Dollars and Sense Markets Are Celebrating the Iran Ceasefire. The Real Energy Crisis Is Just Beginning The Iran Ceasefire Won’t Fix the Energy Crisis Anytime Soon: With the markets and Washington breathing a deep sigh of relief over the informal... Brandon Weichert5 days ago
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More Donald Trump Has a Serious Problem: Iran Won’t Back Off Trying to Control the Strait of Hormuz Trump and Iran signed a peace deal Monday — and still can't agree what it says. Trump declared the Strait of Hormuz open "toll-free":... Jack Buckby5 days ago