Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More ‘We Won’t Gain Anything by Creating a New Front’: How Tehran’s Own Analysts Talked It Out of Attacking Ukraine Ukraine's armed forces spent a day braced for an Iranian ballistic missile strike after Kyiv hit an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian, according... Isaac SeitzJuly 29, 2026
Ukraine War Ukraine Smashed Moscow for Hours with a Swarm of 390 Drones That Putin Couldn’t Make Stop Hundreds of Ukrainian drones struck the Moscow region in a roughly ten-hour raid, one of the largest of the war, shutting the capital's main... Brandon WeichertJuly 28, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More A Strategic Master Stroke for Putin: 30,000 North Koreans Instead of a Mass Mobilization at Home North Korea is rumored to be sending 30,000 more troops plus missile launchers, with Voronezh preparing to receive them since June, per Zelenskyy —... Steve BalestrieriJuly 27, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More NATO Has a Problem: The Drones Keep Coming — and Every Shootdown Raises the Risk of Miscalculation Romania shot down a third unauthorized drone in three days on July 26, its F-16s destroying the latest over the Black Sea as President... Harry J. KazianisJuly 26, 2026
Ukraine War NATO Just Sent an F-16 Fighter Jet To Shoot Down a Mystery Drone — and Refuses to Say Which Country Launched It Romanian F-16s, backed by Italian Typhoons on NATO air policing, tracked an unidentified drone for over an hour before shooting it down near Buzau... Brandon WeichertJuly 24, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More NATO Has Almost Nothing Beyond a Small Number of Tomahawks That Could Reach Those Targets, an Expert Says Britain and Germany are developing the Deep Precision Strike missile, able to reach targets more than twelve hundred miles away and put much of... Caleb LarsonJuly 24, 2026
Ukraine War Putin Says He Will Take the Rest of Donetsk by Year’s End — at the Current Rate It Would Take Fourteen Years Putin has declared his forces will take the rest of Donetsk by year's end, but at their current rate of advance the job would... Reuben JohnsonJuly 23, 2026
Ukraine War Ukraine Just Discovered It Can Hit Moscow Night After Night with Missiles and Drones (But The Price Is High) To apply a morbid paraphrase to Charles Dickens’s 19th-century literary classic “A Tale of Two Cities,” the current and seemingly interminable (having raged since... Christian OrrJuly 22, 2026
Dollars and Sense Sanctions Had Driven Russian Oil Revenue to Its Lowest Budget Share in Two Years — Then Washington Relaxed the Rules NATO leaders repeated their pledges to Ukraine at the Ankara summit, but a Time essay argues the sanctions half of the effort keeps faltering.... Reuben JohnsonJuly 22, 2026