Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Trump declared the blockade of Iranian ports will stay — 'a wall of steel,' with 'nothing Iran can do about it' — even as...
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Dollars and Sense
A US MH-60 put two Hellfires into the steering gear of the Panama-flagged Vela Nova as it tried to run the Hormuz blockade —...
Dollars and Sense
Eight million barrels a night sounds enormous until you set it beside the 21 million a day that crossed Hormuz before the war. Tehran...
The Treaty
Trump declared the "Immediate, Complete, and Total" opening of the strait on August 1. Days later Iran's foreign ministry is still describing a reopening...
Dollars and Sense
Trump says we'll know within 48 hours — the strait opens "very soon," or Iran gets "hit very hard." But the fine print holds...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The US Navy decommissioned USS Fort Worth at Naval Base San Diego on 29 July 2026, nearly 14 years after commissioning — about 56...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Dr. Robert E. Kelly argues the Iran war has exposed the limits of America's exquisite-weapons model, with stockpile depletion now shaping Trump's escalation choices....
Dollars and Sense
Brandon J. Weichert writes that Oman has offered a new paradigm for the Strait of Hormuz: inbound ships use Iran's route, outbound ships use...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Retired Special Forces Lt. Col. Stephen Cook argues the campaign against Iran fits a long historical pattern: from Pantelleria to Kosovo to Desert Storm,...