In 2022 and 2023, shortly before the portable drone changed armed conflict forever, the war in Ukraine was defined largely by a single, simple statistic: which side could shoot more artillery shells. The answer, for most of those first two years, was Russia. They had a massive stockpile of 152-millimeter shells, produced by a flourishing…
One of the consistent themes of military history has been the reduction of decision latency. Engineers use this term to describe the interval between observation and action. From runners and mounted messengers to semaphore, telegraph, radio, radar, satellite communications, artificial intelligence, and autonomous weapons, successive generations of military technology have sought to compress this interval….
Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura oil refinery and oil terminal Ahmed Jadallah | Reuters Saudi Aramco on Tuesday reported a jump in second-quarter profit, following a period of severe disruption through the Strait of Hormuz amid the sprawling Middle East conflict. The world’s largest oil company posted adjusted net income of 125.2 billion Saudi riyal ($33.4…
[Today’s Iran war, as usual, fired a bit early. Please return at 7:30 AM EDT for a final version] As most of you know well, Trump again TACOed over the weekend, calling off a loudly-broadcast, supposedly monster attack on Iran at the very last minute, in yet another instance of Trump being influenced by the…
Ad Policy Peru’s President Keiko Fujimori following her inauguration ceremony in Lima on July 28, 2026. (Connie France / AFP via Getty Images) American Prestige HQ is seriously considering upgrading the video content to IMAX. In this week’s news: The US and Iran resume strikes after a brief pause (3:25); Gaza talks are close to…
Parisa Hafezi, Ahmed Tolba and Ahmed Elimam July 29, 2026 — 8:02pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Dubai/Cairo: The United States on Wednesday launched its first airstrikes in the Middle East sincesuspending its bombing campaign last week, hitting Iran-backed armed…
In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent bemoans our long failure to prosecute war criminals. Plus: the death of Nolan wells and the nightmare so many Black parents fear. Ad Policy U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Mar-a-Lago on December 29, 2025.(Joe Raedlea Getty Images) This is a preview of…
Soldiers die in war. But ever since the death toll in Vietnam broke a generation’s appetite for war, the American public has been uniquely sensitive to casualty counts as a result of our military actions abroad. We venerate fallen servicemembers as heroes, no matter how just the conflict they died in was. But now, Donald…
President Donald Trump has weathered fierce criticism over the past five months after beginning a devastating, never-ending war in Iran. But throughout it all, there’s been one brave man firmly in his corner: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who on Tuesday told senators they’d been thinking about this forever war situation all wrong. Instead of criticism,…
Ad Policy Andy Burnham departs from the Trades Union Congress, after he was announced as the next leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister of the UK on July 17, 2026, in London, England. (Alishia Abodunde / Getty Images) Canada’s wildfires rage on, so Danny and Derek are here to be your breath of…
