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Russia Holds the World’s Largest Nuclear Arsenal — and a Retired Chinese Colonel Says It Has Stopped Absolutely Nothing

Russia holds the world's largest nuclear arsenal, yet Ukraine keeps striking deep inside its territory. In a South China Morning Post essay, retired Chinese...

Brent M. EastwoodJuly 22, 2026

Missile System Department of Defense Photo

The Treaty

Ukraine Is Not Trying to Storm Crimea With Soldiers — It Is Making the Peninsula Too Broken for Russia to Actually Use

Ukraine is not massing troops to retake Crimea. It is methodically knocking out the peninsula's power plants, fuel depots and supply routes, leaving parts...

Jack BuckbyJuly 22, 2026

Ukraine War

For Twelve Years They Were Told Crimea Was Protected — Now Residents Say They Have Been Thrown Back to the Stone Age

Ukrainian strikes have brought blackouts and fuel shortages to Crimea, where the Guardian reports that most of the peninsula's residents have lost power and...

Christian OrrJuly 22, 2026

North Korea Talk

China Has Quietly Accepted a Nuclear North Korea

For years Beijing said it wanted both stability and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula. Stability always ranked higher, but the second goal was at...

Dan BlumenthalJuly 22, 2026

A U.S. Marine with 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, fires a TOW missile during exercise Bougainville II at Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii, April 18, 2021. Bougainville II is the second phase of pre-deployment training conducted by the battalion designed to increase combat readiness through complex and realistic live-fire training. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jacob Wilson)

Ukraine War

Russia’s Secret Police Spent Years Stamping Out Exactly This Kind of Talk — Now Sellers Say the Anger Outweighs the Fear

A third straight day of strikes on Wildberries warehouses has spread beyond Moscow to Krasnodar and Stavropol, wiping out stock that sellers say was...

Reuben JohnsonJuly 22, 2026

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), while participating in Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024, fires the first naval strike missile from a U.S. destroyer July 18. Twenty-nine nations, 40 surface ships, three submarines, 14 national land forces, more than 150 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC in and around the Hawaiian Islands, June 27 to Aug. 1. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2024 is the 29th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jordan Jennings)

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The Regime Decentralized to Survive — and Now Iran No Longer Speaks With One Voice or Answers to a Single Commander

More than ten days into the renewed fighting, Iran faces three strategic paths over the Strait of Hormuz, according to a BBC assessment: settle...

Brandon WeichertJuly 22, 2026

MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Feb. 21, 2017) The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) transits the Mediterranean Sea in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Daniel Gaither/Released)

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Saudi Arabia Built a Whole Pipeline to Escape Hormuz — and Now Needs the One Strait the Houthis Are Threatening to Close

The Houthis are threatening to blockade the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the Red Sea passage Saudi Arabia leaned on after building a pipeline to bypass...

Brent M. EastwoodJuly 22, 2026

Vladimir Putin Back in June 2022 Russian Federation Photo.

Ukraine War

Moscow Is Reeling on Every Front, but One Russia Expert Argues Putin’s Gamble Could Still Pay Off

Russia's war has gone badly, its energy industry is under sustained attack, and even Putin's supporters are talking openly about a coup. Yet one...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 22, 2026

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Russia’s Hypersonic Missiles Summed Up in Just 4 Words

Russia was the earliest country to field multiple operational hypersonic weapons, and the Kremlin has long called them nearly impossible to stop. Only one,...

Harrison KassJuly 22, 2026

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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Russia Holds the World’s Largest Nuclear Arsenal — and a Retired Chinese Colonel Says It Has Stopped Absolutely Nothing

The Treaty

Ukraine Is Not Trying to Storm Crimea With Soldiers — It Is Making the Peninsula Too Broken for Russia to Actually Use

Ukraine War

For Twelve Years They Were Told Crimea Was Protected — Now Residents Say They Have Been Thrown Back to the Stone Age

North Korea Talk

China Has Quietly Accepted a Nuclear North Korea

Ukraine War

Russia’s Secret Police Spent Years Stamping Out Exactly This Kind of Talk — Now Sellers Say the Anger Outweighs the Fear

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

The Regime Decentralized to Survive — and Now Iran No Longer Speaks With One Voice or Answers to a Single Commander

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Saudi Arabia Built a Whole Pipeline to Escape Hormuz — and Now Needs the One Strait the Houthis Are Threatening to Close

Ukraine War

Moscow Is Reeling on Every Front, but One Russia Expert Argues Putin’s Gamble Could Still Pay Off

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Russia’s Hypersonic Missiles Summed Up in Just 4 Words

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