Caleb Larson

"It's over for Iran," Washington declares — a claim no one can verify, propped up by oil cushions that are draining on every side.

Russia's premier investment forum drew two heads of state and America's art commissioner — and opened to black smoke from a Ukrainian strike.

GCHQ estimates half a million Russian soldiers are dead in Ukraine — most by drone — as Kyiv claws back ground for the first time since 2023.

One analyst counted just 203 of Russia's T-80 tanks in satellite images. Yet Britain is about to build a fleet of only 148 — among NATO's smallest.

Ukraine has struck Moscow nine nights running — Zelensky's "long-range sanctions." And for the first time since 2023, Kyiv is reportedly retaking ground.

Iran's missiles weren't destroyed — they were buried, intelligence suggests, and Tehran has dug out about 75% during the ceasefire, with Russian help.

The United Kingdom's Vanguard-class submarines are the Royal Navy's persistent, continuous nuclear deterrent force at sea. A class of just four boats, one of which is a ballistic missile submarine, is continuously on patrol and allows for a potential nuclear response should the United Kingdom come under attack — in essence, a hedge against a surprise attack.

France has named its next aircraft carrier the France Libre, after Charles de Gaulle's wartime Free French movement — and it will be nearly double the size of the carrier it replaces, at 80,000 tons. It will launch jets via American-supplied EMALS catapults, carry Rafale F5 fighters, and reflect France's deliberate strategy of betting everything on a single, highly capable flattop rather than a fleet.

The Soviet Oscar-class was built for one purpose: to destroy American aircraft carrier battle groups. A 24,000-ton, twin-reactor behemoth carrying 24 supersonic P-700 Granit cruise missiles, it was designed to overwhelm a carrier's defenses in a single coordinated salvo. Its most famous boat, the Kursk, was lost in 2000 to its own torpedo — without ever firing at the enemy it was built to kill.

Germany spent decades as a reluctant military power, its Cold War army allowed to atrophy and a deep pacifism running through its politics. Russia's invasion of Ukraine changed that. Now, as its famed car industry sheds jobs, Germany is pivoting that industrial muscle toward tanks, artillery, and ammunition — and has stationed troops permanently abroad, in Lithuania, for the first time since World War II.