Daily Archives: Dec 16, 2025

A $1,000 drone just took out a decades-old pillar of Russian artillery. A video that emerged on October 22, 2025, from Ukraine's 5th Separate Assault Brigade showed a BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system destroyed in one hit. The Cold War-era stalwart Grad was still considered the backbone of...

"Military signaling is fraught with misperception, yet no major power stops doing it." This astute observation by regional security analysts puts into context the latest flight of a Russian long-range bomber over the Sea of Japan: the mission, involving Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers and fighter escorts, was much more...

In the corridors of NATO headquarters, a phrase once thought to have become obsolete has returned with unsettling regularity: "major conventional conflict." A full-scale war in Europe had for years seemed to be little more than a relic from Cold War paranoia, but recent intelligence assessments and military maneuvers...