Dollars and Sense
Before the bombs, officials were already warning that parts of Tehran — ten million people — might someday need evacuating. The reservoirs hit 12...
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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...
Dollars and Sense
The secret tanker operation is real — 200 ships, 100 million barrels, by the president's own count. Now do the division: about 3.3 million...
The Treaty
Iran's state media kept score: thirty-eight times, a deal was declared imminent. But claim thirty-nine came with something the other thirty-eight didn't — a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Washington's victory narrative on Iran is already taking shape — destroyed launchers, degraded capabilities, reopened lanes. One analyst's blunt read: it's an intermission. What...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
No Ukrainian soldier has set foot on Crimea — and yet the bridges are down, the trains have stopped, and Moscow is afraid to...
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...
The Treaty
America started the Iran war — and is now being sidelined from it, as Israel and Iran trade strikes on their own schedules. One...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
For months, the Strait of Hormuz has faced intense disruption, with traffic down by as much as 95%. The narrow waterway, which typically carries...