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Russia’s long-anticipated escalation is coming, with Moscow saying it is preparing a new wave of “massive strikes” against Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
The warning comes after weeks of speculation among analysts that Ukraine’s power grid could come under attack ahead of or during the winter.
Ukraine War Map. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has claimed that a supertanker was struck by mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
The vessel reportedly struck two mines and caught fire in the early hours of Monday, 31st August.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) steams behind the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) in the Persian Gulf on Jan. 31, 2006. The Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group is conducting maritime security operations in the Persian Gulf.(DoD photo by Airman Apprentice Nathan Laird, U.S. Navy. (Released))
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The conflict between the U.S and Iran, after several weeks of relative calm, appears to have rekindled, with the U.S. firing on Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island, and Iran in turn launching missiles at bases elsewhere in the Middle East, in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, where U.S. troops are stationed.
However, the renewal of hostilities came as a Washington Post report said the Pentagon had been warned that further military action could overextend the military.
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In warfare, inflicting damage on an enemy’s morale can be just as important as targeting its armed forces.
Russia’s four-and-a-half-year invasion of Ukraine has seen it make few gains since the conflict began in February 2022.
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The 1,000km frontline has proven difficult to break through, with Russia’s military successes limited to towns and key villages, rather than major cities now under Russian control.
Ukraine has fought valiantly.
President Donald Trump is no longer “low-keying it” with Iran, it seems, with news this morning that the United States and Iran exchanged direct military attacks for the first time in more than a month overnight.
The strikes abruptly end a period of relative calm, raise the prospect of a return to regular military strikes, and come after the U.S. President shared an AI video overnight depicting Iran’s Kharg Island being destroyed.
Iran’s Drones That Russia Is Using. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Iran F-14 Tomcat Fighter. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
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Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield — these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war.
Can America Keep the Iran War Going?: The United States’ war with Iran has now been going on for half a year. While the U.S. still has ample firepower to continue the campaign, senior commanders are warning that doing so is draining forces and weapons needed elsewhere. Senior commanders warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an Aug. 14 classified assessment that prolonged large-scale operations against Iran are becoming unsustainable.
One person familiar with the document described the overall view as “too much for too long,” The Washington Post reported Sunday.
On Wednesday, two classes worth of soldiers will graduate from the Army’s newest Military Occupational Specialties, or MOS, training course at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. A mix of new recruits straight from bootcamp and veteran soldiers retraining will officially become the Army’s new 15X tactical unmanned aircraft system specialists.
So far, the course has graduated more than 250 soldiers in almost a dozen training classes.
“The recruiting folks have been gangbusters on this and sending us people at the rate at which we can receive them,” said Col.
Trump posts an AI rendering of an Attack on Kharg Island – The nature of warfare changes over time, but the events of the last 24 hours — the president of the United States posting an AI-generated rendering of a specific attack at a specific location, leading to uncertainty about whether the attack actually occurred — had almost certainly never happened before now.
Amid the renewal of hostilities in the conflict between the U.S. and Iran on Sunday into Monday, which included the U.S.