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Amidst reports of Russia losing more than 5,000 casualties per week in Ukraine, the Russian Army has been quietly building new bases along its border with NATO, most notably along the border near the Baltic and Finland. According to some estimates from NATO military officials, as many as 150,000 troops could be redeployed along the border once the war in Ukraine ends.

Valerie Insinna, BrD
The bill also restores funding for the E-7 Wedgetail after Defense Department leaders signaled their intent to continue the program.

Boeing has confirmed it is being approached by clients about the possibility of restarting production of the C-17 Globemaster III heavy transport, with company officials describing the discussions as “encouraging.” While the U.S. House Armed Services Committee has directed the Air Force to provide a detailed assessment on whether reopening of production for the aircraft is technically and financially feasible, however, assessments indicate that this will be far from viable.

A few months ago, I attended a panel discussion for a wargame simulating rapid industrial mobilization for armed conflict. Conducted by a leading university, with teams composed of former senior defense officials, the game probed how government and industry collaboration would play out given minimal coordination before the onset of a crisis. On the panel, the defense leaders confessed how infrequently they engaged with industry in real life to plan for a national emergency.

Following the emergence of footage confirming that the Iranian Air Force has deployed F-14 Tomcat fighters to support its ongoing war effort against the United States and its strategic partners, significant questions have been raised regarding the extent of the aircraft’s ability to contribute to the war effort. The F-14 is by far the heaviest and longest ranged fighter type in Iranian service, and is the largest fighter ever developed in the Western world. Its sheer size and range reflect highly ambitious performance requirements to provide a long range air defence capability for the U.S.

The next war over Taiwan may be deterred not by aircraft carriers or nuclear arsenals, but by a Dutch lithography machine. ASML, headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, is the sole manufacturer of the extreme ultraviolet lithography systems required to produce the world’s most advanced semiconductors. Without its machines, the most sophisticated foundries on earth — including those of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) — cannot operate. This fact should be at the center of how the United States thinks about deterrence in the Indo-Pacific. Currently, it is not.

Washington is littered with the corpses of grand plans to restore the Merchant Marine. The Trump administration’s Maritime Action Plan is the latest attempt, and to its credit, the most comprehensive since World War II.The plan is the government’s blueprint to resurrect America’s commercial shipping and domestic shipbuilding industry. The goal is straightforward: build enough merchant ships and train enough civilian mariners to sustain the military through war, while cutting reliance on foreign supply chains in peace. With a $1.

Since the outbreak of open hostilities between Iranian forces, and the United States and Israel, in April 2024, followed by multiple subsequent clashes over the following years, the Iranian ballistic missile arsenal has played an indisputably central role in allowing the country to sustain its defences and limit its adversaries’ escalation through deterrence.

Footage released from Iran on June 10 for the first time showed F-14 Tomcat long range fighter aircraft landing after completing a mission, providing the first indication that the aircraft are actively involved the ongoing war effort against the Untied States and its Western and regional strategic partners. While previously Iran’s Vietnam War era F-4 and F-5 fighters, and newer Soviet MiG-29A and Russian Yak-130 fighters, were seen launching multiple sorties against hostile targets, the footage provides the first confirmation of ongoing F-14 operations.

Chinese Type 59D main battle tanks have begun deliveries to the Cambodian Army, with the vehicles appearing to have been drawn from reserves or possibly frontline units in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, which still operates the type widely in rear units. Following concerns that the delivery would cause controversy in neighbouring Thailand, which was engaged in a brief border war with Cambodia,Chinese military attache in Bangkok confirmed that, according to the annual military cooperation agreement, a total of 93 vehicles were being supplied to Cambodia.