Washington prepares post-election military options against Iran while Tehran threatens retaliation, reducing strategic statecraft to reckless political theater and inevitable miscalculation.
By Tom Beckwith ·
The Pentagon raised its Iran war death toll to 21 after omitting noncombat deaths, a bureaucratic shell game that insults the families of the fallen.
By Maya Ellison ·
The Navy leadership is wrong. It has mistaken a lack of combat deaths for a successful deployment. By prioritizing missile counts and nautical miles, the Pentagon has ignored the collapse of the sailors who fought the war.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Pete Hegseth extended the USS Abraham Lincoln deployment to record lengths during the Iran war, trading crew mental health for strategic presence in a costly miscalculation.
By Tom Beckwith ·
As Donald Trump predicts a swift end to the war with Iran, his administration's crippling economic blockade exposes the empty promise of maximum pressure.
By Tom Beckwith ·
As Washington and Tehran exchange counterproposals in Doha following the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, procedural deadlock ensures that diplomatic pauses merely set the stage for renewed escalation.
By Tom Beckwith ·
In the shipping lanes of Rotterdam, we have a saying: a captain who ignores the charts to save an hour usually ends up spending a month in dry dock.
By Bram de Vries ·
There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a household when the patriarch insists the bank account is overflowing, just as the foreclosure notice arrives in the mail.
By Caroline Ashford ·
You learn early in Youngstown that if you can’t point to the headcount, you don't have a story. You track payroll; you audit the ledger.
By Ray Dombrowski ·