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Updated: June 08, 2026 • 01:07 UTC  •  235 articles

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The Warzone 2h ago

Iran Launches Ballistic Missile Attacks On Israel (Updated)

The possibility of open conflict once again between Iran and Israel rose after Tehran struck in response to the IDF bombing Beirut on Sunday. The post Iran Launches Ballistic Missile Attacks On Israel (Updated) appeared first on The War Zone .

The Warzone 2d ago

Confessions Of A Navy MH-53E Sea Dragon Minehunter Pilot

Former Sea Dragon pilot Steve Jones offers unique insights into the challenges of flying around the Persian Gulf searching for mines. The post Confessions Of A Navy MH-53E Sea Dragon Minehunter Pilot appeared first on The War Zone .

The Warzone 2d ago

Congress Throws A-10 Warthog Another Lifeline

Requiring the USAF to satisfy all the demands stated in the legislation could see the jet's life extended well past 2030. The post Congress Throws A-10 Warthog Another Lifeline appeared first on The War Zone .

War on the Rocks 2d ago

The Pentagon’s AI Edge Is Being Distilled Away

Adversaries do not need to breach the Pentagon’s systems: They only need to harvest the logic of the publicly released frontier AI models that underpin them. This is a defining risk as the Department of Defense pivots to an “AI-first” warfighting machine. In this new context, military predominance is a derivative of AI model supremacy. From Project Maven’s intelligence fusion to the high-velocity

War on the Rocks 2d ago

After the Invasion: China Considers the Problem of Ruling Taiwan

In August 2024, scholars at a Xiamen-based think tank published a paper urging Beijing to immediately establish a shadow Taiwan government on the Chinese mainland in preparation for a full takeover of the island. “It is imperative to prepare a plan for the comprehensive takeover of Taiwan after unification,” they said. The scholars were writing at a fraught moment for Beijing.Only months earlier,

The Warzone 3d ago

Is This A Glimpse Of The Aircraft That Gave Birth To The F-47?

A purported sighting over Area 51 has features that would fit with what we think we know about the F-47, but many questions remain. The post Is This A Glimpse Of The Aircraft That Gave Birth To The F-47? appeared first on The War Zone .

War on the Rocks 3d ago

Is Time on China’s Side? Beijing’s Taiwan Calculus and the Balance of Power

When is the risk of war the highest? And what should the United States be doing about it? One of the most important but underappreciated questions in international politics is how states think about the future balance of power. Countries that believe their position is improving often choose patience. Those who fear their position is deteriorating may feel pressure to act before their advantages di

Bellingcat 3d ago

Tracing Digital Links Between Viory and Ruptly

“In the age of misinformation, the line between fact and fiction is blurrier than ever.” “For those of us working in video news, verification isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s a necessity. It is how we protect the stories we help shape and how we earn and maintain trust in an increasingly chaotic information ecosystem,” Abu Dhabi-registered […] The post Tracing Digital Links Between Viory and Ruptly appe

War on the Rocks 3d ago

Forged in a Knife Fight: China’s Brutal Domestic AI Competition

China’s plan to become a world leader in AI by 2030 is a fixture of practically every Congressional briefing and expert commentary on Beijing’s AI ambitions. The plan’s logic — introduced in 2017 — was simple and alarming: Beijing would direct capital, mobilize its firms, recruit talent, and execute with the strategic patience of a state-led innovation ecosystem. Nearly a decade later, that frame

War on the Rocks 3d ago

Revisiting The Importance of the Battle of Midway

The Battle of Midway has assumed a place in American naval lore that has put it on par with other great battles in world naval history. What Salamis was for the Greeks, Trafalgar for the British Royal Navy, and Tsushima for the Japanese, the clash northwest of Midway Island on June 4, 1942, represents for the U.S. Navy. It was a moment of heroism, professional skill, and victory, which came to def

War on the Rocks 3d ago

Wrong Audience, Wrong Ask: Why Trump’s Abraham Accords Gambit Falls on Deaf Ears

When President Donald Trump repeatedly pressed regional leaders on Abraham Accords expansion late last month — framing Arab-Israeli normalization as a debt owed and a condition for a settlement to end the Iran war — he apparently commented there had been silence on the other end of the line.Arab and Muslim states are not silent because they lack a position on normalization. Indeed, collectively th

War on the Rocks 4d ago

Will China and the United States Pursue Strategic Stability?

In 2024, Michael Swaine wrote, “How to Stop the United States and China from Sliding into War,” where he identified areas that could increase the possibility of an armed conflict between the United States and China. Two years later, after recent talks between President Trump and President Xi, we asked Michael to revisit his arguments.Image: U.S. Department of StateIn your 2024 article, you flagged

The Warzone 4d ago

The Hidden History of America’s Harrier Jump Jets

The Harrier story is a transatlantic saga of improvisation, ambition, and unlikely partnership, which helped shape the F-35B. The post The Hidden History of America’s Harrier Jump Jets appeared first on The War Zone .

The Warzone 4d ago

Russia’s Baltic Fleet Successfully Attacked By Ukrainian Drones

Once considered a sanctuary for Russian naval power, the Baltic Fleet is now in the crosshairs of Ukraine’s expanding long-range strike campaign. The post Russia’s Baltic Fleet Successfully Attacked By Ukrainian Drones appeared first on The War Zone .

The Warzone 4d ago

Iran Launches New Attacks On Kuwait, Bahrain (Updated)

U.S. Central Command says it "conducted self-defense strikes on an Iranian military ground control station on Qeshm Island." The post Iran Launches New Attacks On Kuwait, Bahrain (Updated) appeared first on The War Zone .

War on the Rocks 4d ago

The Rain in Spain Falls Harder on Ukraine: Rethinking the Spanish Civil War Analogy

In 2023, the NATO Baltic Defense College in Tartu, Estonia devoted its entire annual conference to the Interwar Period (1919 to 1939), a theme repeated at subsequent conferences sponsored by national militaries and academic societies throughout the United States and Europe. Western scholars and foreign policy analysts, provoked by Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, seem persuaded that we are livin

War on the Rocks 5d ago

Does the Quad Still Matter?

On May 26, India hosted a formal meeting of the foreign ministers of the Quad — comprising the United States, Australia, India, and Japan. Since its initial creation in 2007 and revival in 2017, foreign policy analysts have debated the usefulness of the organization, which was designed as a group of democratic states that could work together to counter growing Chinese power and influence. Under th

War on the Rocks 5d ago

Between Beijing and the Budget: The Domestic Realities of Taiwan’s Defense Spending Drama

On May 8, Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan broke a grueling six-month stalemate by passing a landmark $25 billion defense budget, catching many observers off guard. The vote brought sudden end to an agonizing legislative deadlock that had pushed U.S.-Taiwanese relations to the edge. For months, long-simmering frustration in Washington over Taiwan’s defense trajectory has threatened to boil over, catalyze

War on the Rocks 5d ago

The Toll Booth at the Throat of World Trade

In late February 2026, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz to foreign shipping. What began as a chaotic wartime closure has, in the past few days, hardened into something more consequential: an official sovereign toll regime, codified in Iranian law, and priced in cryptocurrency.On May 18, Iran operationally launched the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, a formal state bureaucracy with its own internet

War on the Rocks 6d ago

Building a Better Ukraine Requires Accessibility Reforms

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 wid

War on the Rocks 6d ago

Fences Not F-35s: Drone Attacks and the Illogic of Gulf Procurement

One of the most effective counter-drone systems in the largest drone war in history between Ukraine and Russia is a German anti-aircraft gun designed during the Cold War. The Gepard — a self-propelled 35 mm cannon that first entered service in 1976 — has earned recognition from Ukrainian military experts as the most effective weapon against Shahed-type drones, at a cost of a few thousand dollars p

War on the Rocks 6d ago

Deterring Russia Beneath the Waves: Securing NATO’s Critical Undersea Infrastructure

What would happen if you woke up one morning and the internet was gone — not from a software glitch, but because someone had simply cut the wire?Threats to critical undersea infrastructure are rapidly escalating. In 2023, the Balticonnector pipeline and several Baltic data cables were damaged. A year later, four Red Sea cables were cut, disrupting a quarter of data traffic between Asia and Europe,

War on the Rocks 9d ago

How America Lost Its Most Important Defense Tech Habit

On April 15, technology podcaster Dwarkesh Patel published a two-hour interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. For roughly forty minutes, Patel asked one question six different ways. The question was this: If American-made compute trains AI models with the serious cyber-offensive capabilities Anthropic’s Mythos Preview demonstrated — and that compute is sold to a strategic adversary — what responsi

War on the Rocks 9d ago

Contriving Imaginary Gaps in Nuclear Deterrence

Among some nuclear strategists, military officers, and lawmakers, a belief bordering on the canonical has taken root that the United States is on the short end of a “deterrence gap” with Russia and China. Both countries, and especially Russia, possess theater-range nuclear weapons, whose comparatively small yield is thought to lower the threshold for their use. The relative dearth of these capabil

War on the Rocks 9d ago

Glass Jaw? The New Economic Fragility Recasting American Power

A pair of children’s shoes is an odd place to look for the changing dynamics of American power. But stick with me because, after the past year, it is one of the clearest places to see them.Long before those shoes reach a store shelf, tariffs have raised the cost of materials, components, and importation. Oil touches nearly everything else: synthetic fabrics, foam, adhesives, packaging, and freight

War on the Rocks 10d ago

Hollow Deals, Tricky Negotiations, and State Visits

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranThere has been increasing chatter that Washington and Tehran are nearing an agreement that might wind down the war launched by the United States and Israel on Feb. 28. The truce that took effect seven weeks a

War on the Rocks 10d ago

What Would Relations with Post-War Russia Look Like?

Rose Gottemoeller joined Ryan in Washington. They discussed how the West might think about relations with Russia once the war with Ukraine ends, as well as nuclear diplomacy and other critical issues. Gottemoeller was the deputy secretary general of NATO and, before that, served as a senior State Department official. She is currently at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Sta

War on the Rocks 10d ago

Control Without Ownership: How China’s Party-Business Networks Dominate Indonesia’s Mineral Supply Chains

In 2024, when Jiangsu Delong, the world’s second-largest stainless-steel producer, filed for bankruptcy, several Chinese firms and state-owned enterprises quietly absorbed its Indonesian assets. Among them was China First Heavy Industries, a state-owned enterprise founded in 1954 as one of China’s early Soviet-backed industrial projects. Today, China First Heavy Industries supplies military-grade

Bellingcat 11d ago

The ‘Lost’ Villages of Myanmar’s Rakhine

A “river of blood” was how one survivor described the scene in western Myanmar. “I saw shooting. I saw mass killing.” Another told the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHRC) how 20 relatives, including three children, had been killed in the 2024 attack on Htan Shauk Khan village. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said earlier […] The post The ‘Lost’ Villages of Myanmar’s Rakhine appeared first on be

Bellingcat 12d ago

Banned Russian Submunitions Found After Mali’s Military Announces Airstrikes

This investigation is a collaboration between Bellingcat and Jeune Afrique. You can read Jeune Afrique’s article in French here. Unexploded Russian-made cluster munition bomblets, as well as damage consistent with bomblet impacts, have been found in a village in northern Mali – despite the West African country being a state party to the Convention on […] The post Banned Russian Submunitions Found

Bellingcat 24d ago

Satellite Imagery Shows Ongoing Demolitions Across Southern Lebanon

The fragile ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hezbollah last month is holding.  But satellite imagery shows that at least 46 of 54 towns and villages within the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) “Yellow Line” in southern Lebanon have been heavily damaged or, in some cases, entirely flattened.  Much of the destruction and demolition has taken place […] The post Satellite Imagery Shows Ongoing Demolitio

Bellingcat 26d ago

DRC’s Coltan Belt: Verifying Deadly Landslides at Mines Under M23 Control

Since the beginning of 2026, at least four landslides are reported to have killed hundreds of people at the Rubaya mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a major global source of coltan. Coltan is widely used in smartphones, laptops and e-vehicles. With the mines currently under the control of the Rwandan-backed group M23, […] The post DRC’s Coltan Belt: Verifying Deadly Landslides at Mi

Bellingcat 27d ago

Unearthing a Colombian Politician’s Connections to Neo-Nazi Active Club Group

This investigation is a collaboration between Bellingcat and Colombian media outlet Cerosetenta. You can read Cerosetenta’s piece in Spanish here. A video posted on Feb. 26 shows several men painting over graffiti in Restrepo, a neighbourhood in Bogota, Colombia, and replacing them with images of their own: a logo used by Colombian political candidate and […] The post Unearthing a Colombian Politi

Bellingcat 44d ago

“Make Iran Ungovernable” – Tracking Efforts To Destroy Iran’s Police Infrastructure

Bellingcat has identified at least 80 police stations or infrastructure related to law enforcement agencies and the Basij paramilitary group that has been damaged or destroyed in the first three weeks of the United States and Israel’s war against Iran. Experts told Bellingcat that both countries aim to degrade the Iranian regime’s “repressive capacity”. Combined, […] The post “Make Iran Ungovernab

Bellingcat 48d ago

Mining China’s ‘Little Red Book’ for Open Source Gold

The challenges of conducting open-source research in China are well-documented. Consistently named one of the most digitally oppressive countries in the world, China blocks some of the world’s largest social media platforms, such as Facebook, Google, and YouTube. Those that are still accessible are mostly Chinese-owned, strictly regulated and monitored in real time by AI […] The post Mining China’

Bellingcat 51d ago

Painkiller Pipeline: 300 Million Tapentadol Pills Sent from India to West Africa

This article is the result of a collaboration with Indian media outlet Newslaundry. You can find Newslaundry’s editorially independent coverage here. Indian companies have shipped more than 320 million synthetic opioid pills to West Africa – where they have not been approved by regulators – over the past three years, a Bellingcat investigation has found. […] The post Painkiller Pipeline: 300 Milli

Bellingcat 59d ago

‘Snoopy’, ‘Adolf’ and ‘Password’: The Hungarian Government Passwords Exposed Online

Almost 800 Hungarian government email addresses and associated passwords are circulating online, revealing basic vulnerabilities in the security protocols of ministries involved in classified and sensitive work. A Bellingcat analysis of breach data shows that 12 out of the government’s 13 ministries have been affected, which in some cases have exposed the confidential information of […] The post ‘