Daily Archives: Mar 18, 2026

What happens when a single strike disrupts almost 2 percent of the world's oil supply? Ukraine's attack on Russia's Novorossiysk oil terminal has done just that, underlining how precision strikes on energy infrastructure can have wide-ranging consequences far off the battlefield. The operation was part of Kyiv's escalating campaign...

Image Credit to Wikimedia Commons It started with a leak hundreds of leaked internal Rostec documents, posted to the web by the Black Mirror hacker collective, that spelled out export information defense analysts had long speculated about. Hidden in the tables was customer code "364," a reference for Iran, on...

A $47,000 helicopter knob that could be made for $15 is not a rounding errorit is a symptom of a deeper malaise in US military procurement. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s blunt accusation that prime contractors have “conned” the Pentagon has jolted Washington’s defense circles, drawing attention to a decades-old...