Daily Archives: Mar 16, 2026

What happens when a superpower's war machine runs on borrowed time and borrowed parts? Russia's long war in Ukraine is laying bare the limitations of its military-industrial base and the economic scaffolding holding it together. Behind confident rhetoric from the Kremlin, there is a brittle structure-one increasingly strained by...

In November 2025, Russia for the first time fired an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile, a type that has never been used in combat, against Ukraine's Dnipro region. That was a jolting reminder that this is as much a war of technological contests in the skies as it is one...

How can drones costing less than $1,000 cripple military assets worth hundreds of millions? September 2025 brought a stark answer in the form of a string of precision strikes that Ukraine's elite Defense Intelligence "Ghosts" unit conducted on Russian airbases in occupied Crimea. Satellite imagery, video evidence and open-source...