The Fiscal And Strategic Gamble Defining Air Power In 2035
As the USAF pivots to a 2035 force structure built on the B-21 and NGAD, it faces a collision between strategic necessity and fiscal reality. An in-depth analysis.
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How Russia Buys Back the Future: Semiconductor Smuggling, Dual‑Use Imports, and the New Sanctions Arms Race
Investigative analysis of how Moscow sustains advanced weapons and drones by exploiting global tech supply chains: re‑exports, Chinese intermediaries, Gulf transit hubs, and covert procurement networks that turn civilian chips into military advantage.
Russia's Arctic Shadow Fleet: New Front in Sanctions Evasion
How Russia turns Arctic shipping into a dual use tool to evade sanctions, finance military build up, and project power. This piece exposes reflagging, ship to ship transfers, insurance workarounds, and prescribes NATO and Western policy tools to close the Arctic loophole.
Russia's Sanctions Evasion: Energy, Shipping, and Shadow Finance
A focused investigation into how Moscow uses Arctic routes, ship-to-ship transfers, reflagging, shadow fleets, and opaque finance — including Chinese and Gulf intermediaries — to blunt sanctions and keep energy revenues flowing.