Dollars and Sense
Summary and Key Points: Iran has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz without firing a single shot. By threatening cargo ships with drones, missiles,...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims it has opened fire on an American F-35 stealth fighter, shot down an MQ-9...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The Trump administration has described Operation Epic Fury as a resounding success, with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth repeatedly citing...
The Treaty
Throughout all three of his presidential campaigns, President Donald Trump promised to avoid the kind of wars that defined the post-9/11 era. He has...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Operation Epic Fury has created the largest ideological split within MAGA since the movement emerged — and prominent critics, including Tucker Carlson and Megyn...
Dollars and Sense
The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is draining at its fastest rate in roughly a decade — projections suggest levels will drop from 415 million...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy decommissioned all four Avenger-class mine countermeasures ships from Bahrain in September 2025 — USS Devastator, USS Dextrous, USS Gladiator, and USS...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Kitty Hawk-class — the USS Kitty Hawk, USS Constellation, and USS America — were America’s last great conventionally powered supercarriers. Each ship displaced...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Pentagon plans to procure 10,000 low-cost cruise missiles and 12,000 hypersonic missiles between 2027 and 2029 — a wartime-style scaling effort driven by...