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ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, GUAM -- F-16 Fighting Falcons, F-18 Hornets and a B-2 Spirit, line the Andersen flight line during Exercise Valiant Shield, 22 June, 2006. Valiant Shield 2006, the U.S. Pacific Command exercise, which runs June 19 to 23, will be conducted in the vicinity of Guam. Valiant Shield focuses on integrated joint training and interoperability among U.S. military forces while responding to a range of mission scenarios. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Staff Sgt Bennie J. Davis III)

The Treaty

Donald Trump Just Got Handed Iran’s Bill for the War, and He Answered by Sending Tehran a Compensation Bill of His Own

Pakistan and Qatar say a US-Iran arrangement is taking shape, with Iran and Oman reportedly agreed on coordinates for a temporary Hormuz navigation system....

Jack BuckbyAugust 11, 2026

Iskander Missile Attack Creative Commons Image

Ukraine War

Putin Is Said to Have a ‘Pathological Fear’ of Drone Strikes — and Kyiv Just Burned the S-400 Guarding His Favorite Palace

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces say their drones destroyed the S-400 battery screening Putin's palace near Gelendzhik, leaving it 'ablaze and sputtering' for three hours....

Reuben JohnsonAugust 11, 2026

The Norwegian Army fires a National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) from the Andøya Space Range in Andøya, Norway against a simulated threat in support of exercise Formidable Shield 2023, May 10, 2023. Formidable Shield is a biennial integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) exercise involving a series of live-fire events against subsonic, supersonic, and ballistic targets, incorporating multiple Allied ships, aircraft, and ground forces working across battlespaces to deliver effects. (Courtesy photo by Royal Norwegian Navy)

Ukraine War

Something Is Slowing Ukraine’s Drone War on Crimea, and It Is Not Production: The Money Moves Slower Than the Plan

Kyiv's campaign to cut off Crimea is only phase one, the commander known as Magyar told the AP — and the constraint isn't drone...

Isaac SeitzAugust 11, 2026

Zelensky Speaking in UK Ukraine Government Photo

Ukraine War

Trump Told Zelensky He Did Not Have the Cards — Eighteen Months Later Ukraine’s Drones Are Reaching Into Siberia

Kyiv's answer arrived in smuggled drones and burning refineries. Weapons production expanded thirty-five-fold, long-range strikes tripled between January and July, and Moscow trimmed its...

Georgia GilholyAugust 11, 2026

Ukraine War

Vladimir Putin Just Got Handed a Map-Sized Problem: Every Refinery and Weapons Factory in Russia Sits Within Kyiv’s Reach

Jack Buckby reports Ukraine struck the Orsknefteorgsintez refinery in Orenburg, more than nine hundred miles from its border, as its drone force claimed forty-three...

Jack BuckbyAugust 11, 2026

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

America Doesn’t Have Enough of Its Biggest Bunker-Busters for Iran’s Missile Cities, and Even Enough Might Not Work, an Analyst Argues

Brandon J. Weichert argues the war's planners grotesquely underestimated Iran's underground missile cities — granite-buried complexes built after watching Saddam fall, where launchers, drones,...

Brandon WeichertAugust 11, 2026

U.S. Soldiers assigned to 2-11 Long Range Fires Battalion, 25th Infantry Division Artillery, fire a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System during a counter-landing live-fire exercise as part of Exercise Balikatan 2026 at La Paz Sand Dunes, Laoag City, Philippines, May 4, 2026. Balikatan is a longstanding annual exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. military that represents the strength of our alliance, improves our capable combined force, and demonstrates our commitment to regional peace and prosperity. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Duke Edwards)

North Korea Talk

Something Is Missing From Russia’s Missile Barrages: Kyiv Says the Hypersonic Kinzhal Was Quietly Pulled From Production

Ukraine's defense intelligence says Russian missile factories exceeded July's production targets across the board, even as Moscow leans on ballistic missiles from Pyongyang and,...

Isaac SeitzAugust 11, 2026

Putin In a Meeting Creative Commons Photo

Ukraine War

Civilian Deaths Inside Russia Have More Than Doubled This Year — Monitors Now Call It the Highest Rate of the War

Both sides now hit what the other relies on. Ukraine burns the warehouses of Russia's biggest online retailer; Russia burns the warehouses of Ukraine's...

Stephen SilverAugust 11, 2026

Ukraine War

Ukraine Just Hit a Refinery Built Under Stalin in 1935 — It Sits More Than 900 Miles Away, Near the Kazakh Border

Ukraine says it struck the Orsk refinery in Orenburg, more than 900 miles from the front and close to the Kazakh border — a...

Georgia GilholyAugust 11, 2026

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The Treaty

Donald Trump Just Got Handed Iran’s Bill for the War, and He Answered by Sending Tehran a Compensation Bill of His Own

Ukraine War

Putin Is Said to Have a ‘Pathological Fear’ of Drone Strikes — and Kyiv Just Burned the S-400 Guarding His Favorite Palace

Ukraine War

Something Is Slowing Ukraine’s Drone War on Crimea, and It Is Not Production: The Money Moves Slower Than the Plan

Ukraine War

Trump Told Zelensky He Did Not Have the Cards — Eighteen Months Later Ukraine’s Drones Are Reaching Into Siberia

Ukraine War

Vladimir Putin Just Got Handed a Map-Sized Problem: Every Refinery and Weapons Factory in Russia Sits Within Kyiv’s Reach

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

America Doesn’t Have Enough of Its Biggest Bunker-Busters for Iran’s Missile Cities, and Even Enough Might Not Work, an Analyst Argues

North Korea Talk

Something Is Missing From Russia’s Missile Barrages: Kyiv Says the Hypersonic Kinzhal Was Quietly Pulled From Production

Ukraine War

Civilian Deaths Inside Russia Have More Than Doubled This Year — Monitors Now Call It the Highest Rate of the War

Ukraine War

Ukraine Just Hit a Refinery Built Under Stalin in 1935 — It Sits More Than 900 Miles Away, Near the Kazakh Border

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