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The U.S. and its Gulf partners are racing to bypass the Strait of Hormuz — the UAE doubling its pipeline capacity, Saudi Arabia expanding...
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The Treaty
‘You Close It, and You Won’t Have a Country’: Trump’s Warning to Iran After It Shut the Strait Again
Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed again — though CENTCOM says it's still open, and the ship counts are murky. Trump's response was...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The USS Gerald R. Ford supercarrier just finished the longest U.S. carrier deployment since Vietnam. But a laundry-room fire, the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On Wednesday, five Marine Harriers rose over North Carolina, hovered in midair like helicopters, and touched down together one final time — closing the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia’s oil and gas sector is experiencing a historic downturn due to a combination of tightening Western sanctions, falling global crude prices, and sustained...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points – Operation Absolute Resolve relied on overwhelming airpower to blind Venezuela’s defenses and enable the capture of Nicolás Maduro—but the...
The Treaty
Key Points and Summary – Dr. Ted Galen Carpenter argues the Trump administration is inflating Venezuela into a major U.S. security threat to justify...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The United States has massed a powerful naval force in the Caribbean as part of Southern Command’s pressure campaign...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – A U.S. ground invasion of Venezuela is highly unlikely—but if it happened, the real war would start after Maduro...