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Ship Refloated After Getting Stuck In Suez Canal—The Latest Incident Hitting World’s Trade Artery
Topline A ship has been refloated after running aground in Egypt’s Suez Canal on Monday, according to news reports, briefly disrupting traffic in the latest incident to hit one of the world’s busiest ...
Ukraine’s M-2 Fighting Vehicles Aren’t Tanks. But They Sure Can Kill Tanks.
M-2s firing TOW missiles. U.S. Defense Department photo The version of the M-2 Bradley fighting vehicle that the United States is donating to Ukraine isn’t the latest version. No, it’s the variant of ...
Want Peace? Kick Russia’s Navy Out Of The Black Sea—For Years
Russian Navy ship sails through the Bosphorus Strait AFP via Getty Images Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has spent the past few months previewing a comprehensive ten-point peace plan. But Z...
Iran Might Be Waiting Until October To Supply Russia Deadlier Drones And Missiles For Ukraine
Since September, Russia has launched hundreds of Iranian-supplied loitering munitions (self-detonating drones) against Ukraine’s power grid. Tehran has much faster and deadlier drones and short-...
In This Russian Battalion, The Tanks Don’t Work And The Commander Is A Drunk Pyromaniac
A mostly non-working T-72 apparently belonging to the 2nd Motor Rifle Division. Via social media As Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds into its 11th month, the Russian army’s tanks are in bad shape....
Ukraine Needs Leopard 2 Tanks. Its Allies Are Getting Closer To Providing Them.
A German army Leopard 2. NATO photo In the space of a few days this week, France, the United States and Germany all announced they would donate to Ukraine powerful armored vehicles: French AMX-10RC sc...
Russia’s Invasion Shows Indo-Pacific That Information Is A Prelude To Power
An Mq-9 Reaper type drone awaits tasking at the Naval Air Station (NAS) at Sigonella, Sicily. Getty Images Remotely-piloted airborne vehicles are center stage as militaries race to exploit the lessons...
With Ex-German Marder Fighting Vehicles, Ukrainian Infantry Can Keep Up With The Tanks
A German army Marder. German army photo After months of wheedling, the German government finally has pledged to Ukraine a first batch of Marder infantry fighting vehicles. The 30-ton, tracked vehicles...
The Future Of Ukraine Depends On This Key Decision Only Biden Can Make
The Biden Administration still doesn’t fully grasp the profound stakes involved in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This episode of What’s Ahead explains why anything less than Putin’s clear defeat will ...
Ukraine’s About To Get French Scout ‘Tanks’—And A New Way Of Exploiting Gaps In Russian Lines
A French army AMX-10RC. Wikimedia Commons Ukraine is getting AMX-10RC armored vehicles from French stocks. The six-wheel AMX-10RC with its 105-millimeter gun looks like a tank, but without the tracks....
With Electrical Grids Under Assault, U.S. And Ukraine Seek Scarce Transmission Gear
An autotransformer completely destroyed after a Russian Attack. Getty Images Russia, eager to break Ukraine’s power grid, is subjecting Ukrainian electrical substations to a withering array of missile...
Russia Has A Plan For Pinning Down Ukraine’s Super-Upgraded M-55S Tanks
The 47th Assault Brigade’s M-55Ss. Via social media The Ukrainian army’s new 47th Assault Brigade is up-armoring its super-upgraded, ex-Slovenian M-55S tanks as the unit apparently prepares to r...
New Ukraine Howitzers Make Headlines, While The M-109 Gun Toils In Obscurity
An M109 self propelled 155mm gun fires in Ukraine Getty Images In Ukraine, America’s humble M-109 howitzer isn’t getting much attention. Overshadowed by more modern self-propelled guns, the M-109 is a...
Tesla, Wynn, Traeger, Amazon and more
Tesla charging stations at a car showroom in the morning light. The expansion of the charging infrastructure is still not progressing as desired. Jan Woitas | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Check ou...
Ukraine Strike Kills Over 60 Russian Troops—One Of Russia’s Biggest Losses Of War
Topline A Ukrainian strike on a Russian facility in occupied far eastern Ukraine killed at least 63 Russian soldiers, according to multiple reports, citing Russian state media, in one of the deadliest...
If Russia Is This Bad At Conventional Warfare, What Does That Tell Us About Its Nuclear Posture?
Russia’s military performance in Ukraine has proven to be, in the words of the Economist’s year-end edition, “spectacularly incompetent.” Western observers have noted major deficiencies in intelligenc...
Ukraine’s Drones Keep Hitting Russia’s Bomber Bases. Now Russian Missile Crews Are Getting Jumpy.
A Russian air force Su-27 in 2016. Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian military on Dec. 29 apparently sent more explosives-laden drones to strike a Russian air force base outside Moscow. It was at least t...
Globalization, Elon, Profiteering And Boomers. China, The Cloud, Self-Health And Kanye. Re-Generative AI, Ukraine, Tay Tay, And The Dallas Cowboys. All Of That And More In My 23 Predictions For 2023.
Making predictions is an inherently high-risk activity. Predictions for 2021 are here. I would grade them as B-. The predictions for 2022 are here and a B+ grade on these feels more appropriate becaus...
Ukraine, China And Europe Matter
Vintage illustration of a fortuneteller gazing into a crystal ball; screen print, 1920. (Photo by … [+] GraphicaArtis/Getty Images) Getty Images No one knows for sure what 2023 will bring to Wal...
VanEck Suspends Russia ETFs Due to Prolonged Inactivity after Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Investment firm VanEck recently suspended two Russia ETFs as Western sanctions bite hard on profitability. New York-based asset manager VanEck is liquidating its Russia exchange-traded funds (ETFs) fo...
Why Russian Officials Are Referencing The Cyprus Missile Crisis
Russian officials have referenced the Cypriot Missile Crisis of the late 1990s in their warnings to Greece about potentially transferring its Russian-built S-300 air defense missile systems to Ukraine...
Russian Attacks On Ukraine Power Grid May Be Global
Sabotage of U.S. electrical substations make it harder for Ukraine to recover from Russian attacks Getty Images Russia is repeatedly attacking Ukraine’s power grid, subjecting electrical substations t...
Why The Calendar Might Signal A Good 2023 For Stocks
Market rally. Getty Images There’s total agreement on one thing about 2022: It was a malodorous year for the stock market. What about next year? Right now, the most common outlook is that it will be n...
Ukraine Could Get American M-2 Fighting Vehicles. They’re Exactly What The Ukrainian Army Needs To Stay On The Offensive.
U.S. Army soldiers dismount an M-2 alongside Hungarian solders in BTR-80 armored personnel carriers during a NATO training exercise. U.S. Army photo The administration of U.S. president Joe Biden is c...
America’s Tough M2/M3 Bradley Mini-Tanks Are Perfect For Ukraine
U.S. Army Bradley fighting vehicles maneuver near the Iraqi border Getty Images A report from Bloomberg suggests the U.S. Government is “considering sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine” in a ...
Russia Attacks Ukraine Power Grid, Leaves Hospitals Without Electricity, Here Are UNITED24 Aid Efforts
Actor and director Liev Schreiber, seen here in Ukraine, has been serving as a UNITED24 ambassador … [+] trying to raise funds to purchase power generators for hospitals. (Photo: Andrii Yushchak...
To Survive Ukraine’s Air-Defenses, Russian Pilots Fly Low And Lob Rockets. It Might Not Be As Inaccurate As It Seems.
Russian air force Su-25s firing unguided rockets over Ukraine. Via social media It’s one of the weirdly iconic images of the Ukraine war: Russian and Ukrainian helicopters and attack jets flying low o...
How Ukraine Uses Old World War II Scrounging Tactics To Fight Russia
Captured Russian gear has kept Ukraine in the fight. Getty Images Ukraine is demonstrating that hard-won lessons from old, long-forgotten World War II playbooks remain relevant. Since Russia’s invasio...
Ukrainian Commandos Decimate Russian Mechanized Force Using Racing Hobby Drones
SHENZHEN, CHINA – MARCH 28: A DJI First-Person View (FPV) drone is seen at Mission Hills Golf Club … [+] on March 28, 2021 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. (Photo by Liang Xiashun...
Why Are Mercenaries Driving Russia’s Best T-90 Tank?
A T-90M that the Ukrainian army captured. Ukrainian army photo It seems that Russian mercenary firm The Wagner Group is operating Russia’s best tank, the T-90M. That would be yet another wrinkle in th...