The Western allies trying to negotiate a way to protect the Strait of Hormuz for oil and natural gas shipping face an unambiguous reality: a similar effort in the Red Sea that started years earlier ...

CVN 72, CVN 73 and CVN 77. USS John C. Stennis/CVN-74 is currently 14 months behind schedule and the USS Harry S. Truman/CVN-74 is undergoing a complicated refit to repair damage resulting from a ...

April 23, 2026: A new Chinese warship has been spotted by satellite photos under construction in a shipyard. The ship has two large square spaces visible that reveal the position and size of the main ...

April 22, 2026: Specialists in the PRC/People’s Republic of China claim that the country’s energy system is robust enough to withstand major foreign disruptions, including war in the Persian Gulf, ...

Another Pentagon announcement warned, "International waters are not a refuge for sanctioned vessels." That statement makes my point about expanding the area of naval operations quite clear. The U.S.

The Russian current reaction to all this is to change nothing and issue press releases about imaginary victories. Russia now claims that Ukraine, not Russia, has suffered 1.3 million casualties so far ...

During the March-April Israeli American attacks on Iran, the Israeli Mossad secret service had numerous operatives inside Iran reporting on the location and activities of Iranian leaders, scientists ...

April 21, 2026: The European NATO defensive campaign in the Middle East made clear the inadequacy of its air forces. These were organized around small numbers of manned fighters armed with a few ...

April 21, 2026: The Russian Ministry of Sports decided that shooting with sniper rifles was now an official sporting discipline. Soldiers operating as snipers is now considered a Russian sporting ...

Iran has a lot of naval mines and could, if they were desperate enough, use them to block the Strait of Hormuz and block all oil exports, including Iran’s. Iran has been developing new ways to deploy ...

April 19, 2026: In northeastern Russia has established a school to teach teenage boys how to operate and maintain drones. There was also instruction on how to use naval drones that operate underwater ...