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Two Tankers Full of Saudi Oil Just Turned Around in the Red Sea — and the Houthis Didn't Have to Fire a Single Shot
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (1126+ words) Two tankers loaded with Saudi crude reversed course in the Red Sea — without being fired on — after the Houthis threatened any ship calling at Saudi ports. The blockade doesn’t need to sink tankers to work, one analyst argues; the real…...
A Leading Scholar Says America Should Cut Its Losses in Iran Now and Pull Back From the Persian Gulf for Good
10+ hour, 9+ min ago (56+ words) A leading scholar argues America can't win in Iran, should cut its losses, and should pull back from the Gulf to focus on China and Russia....
Analysts Say the US-Iran War Is on a 'Knife's Edge' — With a Narrowing Window to Pull Back Before It Spirals Out of Control
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (456+ words) Analysts say the US-Iran war is on a 'knife's edge' with a closing window to pull back — as 268 prominent Iranians sign a 'no to war' plea....
Washington Is Starting to Treat Syria and Iraq as One Policy
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (899+ words) 19FortyFive...
Mediators Just Handed Iran a Formal Proposal for a Ten-Day Ceasefire — and Tehran's Own Spokesman Confirmed Diplomacy Is in Motion
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (796+ words) Mediators have passed Iran a proposal for a ten-day ceasefire, Reuters reports, and Tehran’s foreign ministry confirms diplomacy is moving — even as strikes continue. An LA Times analysis argues Trump, the anti-forever-war president, now owns one: 50,000 troops, twenty warships, four…...
4 Ways Out of the Iran War
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (365+ words) Abate the IRGC missile, drone, and speedboat threats sufficiently, and you abate the havoc Tehran has wrought on the global economy. Easier said than done. Tehran has certainly resisted. It has succeeded as it defines success. F-22 Raptor. Image Credit: Creative…...
The Pentagon Paid Moldova $40 Million for 21 MiG-29s So Iran Couldn't Have Them. The Minister Who Signed the Deal Went to Prison for It
2+ week, 3+ day ago (433+ words) In 1997, the Pentagon bought 21 Soviet MiG-29 fighters out from under Iran and flew them to Ohio in pieces. The bargain was real, and the intelligence harvest shaped American weapons for a decade. But the full ledger runs stranger than the…...
Air Power Just Failed Its Biggest Test: What the Iran War Proved About Winning Wars
2+ week, 5+ day ago (377+ words) The Iran war was as close to a pure air campaign as America has fought, and James Holmes — who holds the J.C. Wylie Chair at the U.S. Naval War College — reads it the way Wylie would have: devastation from the…...
Iran Wants Every Ship in the Strait of Hormuz to Pay It "Protection Money" — and Experts Say the World's Most Important Oil Route May Never Be the Same
2+ week, 6+ day ago (923+ words) The Strait of Hormuz has been a flashpoint in the Iran-United States conflict, drawing the rest of the world into it. During the initial phase of the US and Israeli bombing campaign, Iran’s senior leadership was killed, its Air Force…...
Israel Built a Fighter to Rival the F-16. Then America, Which Had Paid for Most of It, Pressured Israel to Kill Its Own Jet
3+ week, 5+ day ago (769+ words) America funded most of Israel's Lavi fighter, then pressured Israel to cancel it so it wouldn't rival the F-16. The design may have re-emerged as China's J-10....