Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Brandon Weichert reports a panelist citing administration and Pentagon sources who claims the U.S. plans a Marine and Ranger landing on Kharg Island —...
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The Treaty
‘You Close It, and You Won’t Have a Country’: Trump’s Warning to Iran After It Shut the Strait Again
Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed again — though CENTCOM says it's still open, and the ship counts are murky. Trump's response was...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The United States and Iran have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to end the war — but the agreement depends on enforcement. National security...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Venezuela playbook worked: seize the oil, become the seller. Kharg Island breaks it on one fact — Iran's crude has a single serious...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Taking Kharg Island is the easy part — helicopters and Ospreys could do it. Holding it is the trap, one professor warns, and a...
The Treaty
Five Miles Long, Three Wide — and Holding Up Iran’s Entire War: The Island America Says It Will Take
Five miles long, three wide — and Iran's whole war runs through it. A declassified CIA file called Kharg Island the most vital point...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The ceasefire is officially meaningless — Tehran's words — and the last 48 hours looked like the war's first weeks. Now Washington is openly...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Trump threatened this morning to seize Kharg Island and take control of Iran's oil markets. The seizure would succeed in a day. Then several...
Dollars and Sense
Iran's oil has never been worth more — and the regime can't sell a drop, its tanks full and its troops now going unpaid....