But 85 percent of the two million Russian rail cars and engines had coil bearings when the Ukraine war began in 2022. Western sanctions then cut off deliveries of new coil bearings. The 300,000 rail ...

Since 2022 Russia has already been hit with sanctions on Russian IT or Information Technology companies. This effort has had little impact because the Russian computer manufacturers continue to obtain ...

The workforce shrinkage raises dire doubts about Chinese export statistics as those simply remaining where they were six years ago entails an unbelievable rate of labor productivity increases. These ...

Russia has had problems with its oil exports via tankers two years ago. These problems were related to the fact that Russia has few shipping routes that it can use. Tankers are used in the Baltic and ...

A U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II intercepts a Russian Tu-95 “Bear” strategic bomber over the Bering Sea, April 14, 2025.

May 3, 2025: In the Ukrainian air war, Ukraine is winning because of superior jamming capabilities and guided bombs that cannot be disabled by Russian electronic warfare equipment. This shift ...

May 7, 2025: The war in Ukraine depends on how much industrial production each side can muster. As of early 2025 the Russians were winning because they have much more industry and industrial workers, ...

There are few methods to defeat drone attacks. The primary defensive measure is electronic jamming of the control signal between the drone operator and the drone. Jamming is of limited effectiveness ...

The Americans did not discover until after the war how well informed the Japanese commanders of these islands were. Details of American attacks on Saipan and in the Philippines were known to the ...

As happened in World War II, victory came to the side that could sever the enemy supply routes and leave them nothing to fight with other than angry press releases and threats of future annihilation.