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Iran Just Needs to Outlast the SPR: Each additional week of danger in the Strait of Hormuz pushes Washington closer to a decision this administration doesn’t want to make. Not whether to keep fighting, but whether to fight harder, faster, and with fewer restraints, before the domestic cost of the war becomes impossible to hide.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is why that decision hasn’t arrived yet. Since the war began at the end of February, the United States has drained almost 99 million barrels from the reserve. As of July 10, it stood at 316.

Reports are breaking that India may have helped persuade Moscow from using tactical nuclear weapons during the initial months of the Russo-Ukrainian War, according to Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Teofil Bartoszewski. India, an important partner to many nations worldwide, is also greatly respected by Vladimir Putin. It has played an important part in preventing the war in Ukraine from spreading further, and the country’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is one of the few world leaders whose words are taken seriously by the Kremlin.

To engage and disengage rapidly is now critical for military vehicle protection. If slow, they are vulnerable to attack.

Electronic warfare patents fell 10.9% YoY to June 2026, while grant ratio hit a three-year high. Thales leads; C4ISR/weaponry grows.

Editor’s note: This is the third article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, and winners will be selected by a reader vote undertaken through our newsletter later this summer. Prior installments can be found at the Arsenal of Innovation page.

The British Royal Air Force has clarified that the planned procurement of F-35A fifth generation fighters was not driven primarily by the requirement to carry U.S. B61-12 tactical nuclear bombs, despite the government’s announcement last year that the aircraft would restore an airborne nuclear role for the first time since 1998.

Earlier this spring, Claude’s developers found the cyber potential of Anthropic’s model, Mythos 5, hazardous enough to pump the brakes on model release, creating the Project Glasswing collaboration to give cyber defenders the upper hand through controlled access to the model. Despite these efforts, the U.S. government stepped in on June 12, 2026, and forced Anthropic to take down Mythos and its safeguarded form, Fable 5 — an action the company disputed, calling the trigger a narrow, nonuniversal jailbreak.

In January, Robson Henry died at the age of 66. Chances are, you have never heard of Henry. He was not famous, rich, or powerful. In many ways, Henry was no different from the thousands of young men and women who, at the age of 18, chose to serve by enlisting in the U.S. Army. Nor does the fact that he stayed in the Army for the next 26 years, serving multiple tours of duty in the Middle East, meaningfully distinguish him.

A Russian Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft has successfully launched two Russian cosmonauts and one American NASA astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS), highlighting the resilience of U.S.-Russian cooperation in human spaceflight even as relations between the two countries remain strained. The mission, which lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carried NASA astronaut Anil Menon alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina. The spacecraft entered orbit before completing a fast-track rendezvous with the ISS approximately three hours later.

Boeing’s MQ-28 Ghost Bat unmanned stealth fighter has reached a major milestone in the evolution of unmanned air combat after successfully operating alongside multiple variants of the F-35 fifth generation fighter during the multinational Exercise Valiant Shield 2026 in the Western Pacific. The exercise marked the first time a Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), of which the MQ-28 is among the most advanced to have been developed outside China, has participated in a large-scale multinational Pacific exercise. This is thought to have provided the U.S.